I received yesterday the following email from a friend of mine recuperating at the University of Virginia Hospital, and I know he would have no qualms about sharing part of it with the readers of the Postmodern conservative blog. It goes on for a while—he is a professor of cultural . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan has a nice two-post roundup of relatively sane commentary on the Gates imbroglio. We could have an interesting conversation about race, memory, and HONOR in America (as opposed to mere or simple dignity), roping ole Tocqueville back into it, or not; either way, it does seem right to conclude . . . . Continue Reading »
The Daily News this morning devoted five pages, including its cover, to the arrest of forty-four Jewish religious leaders and New Jersey politicians, together with a body-part trafficker, in the Garden State corruption scandal—all under the banner of “Rabbis & Mayors, Kidneys & . . . . Continue Reading »
Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama’s premier health care advisers—and the brother of his chief of staff—insists that rationing based on age isn’t invidious discrimination. Oh no? Check out this story from Sweden that illustrates how wrong he is. From the story:An . . . . Continue Reading »
“Any two AI designs might be less similar to one another than you are to a petunia.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk . John Schwenkler was kind enough to point me towards this post by Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution in . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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