A number of my libertarian friends— John Schwenkler , Joshua Claybourn , et al.—who have weighed in on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates have taken the side of the Harvard professor. Although they are skeptical of the claims that race was the motivating factor (at least on the side of law . . . . Continue Reading »
A bill has been filed in the U.S. Senate that would create a federal long term care insurance plan. It would cost $50-$75 a month, but pay $50-$75 a day in benefits. Being voluntary, it can’t possibly work from an underwriting perspective—thereby guaranteeing even more harvesting from . . . . Continue Reading »
Betsy McCaughey has been pounding the drum about the dangers of Obamacare. Today, she warns about the beliefs of two key Obama Administration health care advisers in an opinion column (“Deadly Doctors”) in the New York Post. From the column:Yet at least two of President . . . . Continue Reading »
When not accusing physicians of performing unnecessary tonsillectomies for financial gain while offering no evidence to back up this claim, our President is accusing a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer of acting “stupidly” while admitting he does not have access to, and thus has . . . . Continue Reading »
Perhaps we won’t be lemmings and destroy the world’s economy in the name of stopping global warming, after all. India has rejected some of the “science”—read computer program projections—of global warming and is refusing to thwart its own prosperity tilting at the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it seems that the tender sensibilities of a famous Harvard professor were offended. He and his driver put their shoulders to his front door. A neighbor called the police. The officer responded and adopted the usual officious and superior manner of policemen. As a man who knows only deference . . . . Continue Reading »
Via James Kushiner at Touchstone , a statement released yesterday by House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI): “Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients . . . . Continue Reading »
Avery Cardinal Dulles, who Joseph Bottum described as “one of the greatest thinkers in the modern Roman Catholic church and perhaps its most distinguished representative in the United States,” died on December 12, 2008. In our May issue—now free to all readers—Thomas G. Guarino . . . . Continue Reading »
As if we aren’t already spending enough money, legislation has apparently been filed to create a federal long term care insurance plan. From the storyIt creates a national insurance trust that people can voluntarily participate in. It’s a publicly sponsored insurance plan, to make . . . . Continue Reading »
In his report yesterday on the seventy-sixth General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Jordan Hylden remarked on the uncertain future for the denomination: “By all indices, the church is graying fast and shrinking faster, attracting precious few youth and young families, its progressive . . . . Continue Reading »
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