I mentioned the problems with Obamacare’s creation of a Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board in a previous post. But I thought it so important, I asked the Weekly Standard if I could opine at greater length, and they agreed.Obamacare gave IPAB’s unelected . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the more interesting educational efforts going on in the world today is taking place in Sulaimani, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. A number of dedicated educators have established a university , at the core of which is a very strong liberal arts program. The language of . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s a category of moral obligations that occur in funny circumstances. Given that you are doing a certain immoral thing, there are nevertheless obligations that you have. The pope has recently conceded (finally) that there are such obligations involving condom use. It’s wrong to be a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is so awful. South Africa has a population of about 50 million. Nearly 6 million of them have HIV. And a new study expects another 5 million contract it in the next two decades. From the story:South Africa, already home to 5.7 million H.I.V.-positive people, more than any . . . . Continue Reading »
Not much, apparently. The Pew Research Center has posted the results of its latest survey of our knowledge of current events. The results are not heartening. On average, Americans got 42 percent of the answers right (5 of 12); college graduates did a little better (6.8 of 12—still . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s like I have been saying: Only this time, the warning against GWH is in Science. But the authors still miss the bigger point. From “Apocalypse Soon? Dire Messages Reduce Belief in Global Warming by Contradicting Just World Beliefs:”Though scientific evidence for the . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS is broke—and so apparently care is going to go from whatever you would call it now to an even worse mess. From the Guardian:Doctors face demonstrations outside their surgeries and questions about their high salaries by angry patients because of the government’s radical NHS . . . . Continue Reading »
1. A Brief History of Economic Time One hundred years ago the average American workweek was over 60 hours; today it’s under 35. One hundred years ago 6% of manufacturing workers took vacations; today it’s over 90%. One hundred years ago the average housekeeper spent 12 hours a day on . . . . Continue Reading »
On the always interesting Public Discourse , James Capretta engages the question of how a pro-life person should think about the ongoing debates about healthcare. The question was raised by Richard Stith in a web article for First Things , who made the arresting observation that a nationalized . . . . Continue Reading »
I appreciate Jim Capretta’s response to my First Things article , and especially his emphasis on the legitimacy of disagreement among pro-life people. (I tried very hard to avert the tragedy of mutual ostracism around Democrats for Life, to no avail. Let us hope that such own-goals can be . . . . Continue Reading »
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