Tort law is a market based corrective for a market-based system, which is why I am not surprised that President Obama is sending signals that he is willing to accept tort reform as part of a health care reform package. From the story:In closed-door talks, Mr. Obama has been making the case that . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a part of my study of Kass that I’m posting today instead of saying more about Rousseau . . . The thought of Enlightenment thinkers such as Bacon, Descartes and Condorcet was that only indefinite longevity could transform the world in a genuinely humane way. With it, the progress of . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Annie, age thirteen, keeps bees. This is a fairly new project; just after Easter, having spent the school year engaged in bee research, she brought home her colony, buzzing furiously in a box on her lap, and established them in a little green glade in the woods around her house. Every day . . . . Continue Reading »
The mystery about the Iranian elections, writes my old friend Daniel Pipes, is why the religious authorities who run the country decided to declare a massive victory for the crude and brutal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rather than advance the slick and deceptive Hossein Moussavi. One could read this as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The former Liberian warlord-dictator Charles Taylor famously has a “have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too” mentality (he once used the campaign slogan , “He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him.”). His latest life-changing decision shows that he really hates to . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently the defense of the Final Exit Network defendants is going to be based in free speech. From Derek Humphry’s blog entry urging fellow travelers to pony up for the FEN defendants’ legal defense fund:Inevitably, the cases against the Final Exit Seven will be a landmark in American . . . . Continue Reading »
In the aftermath of the pope’s visit to Israel in May, this report came right out of the blue:Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) - The Chief Tax Collector at Israel’s Finance Ministry, Yehezkel Abrahamoff, has notified institutions of the Catholic Church in Israel that he has . . . . Continue Reading »
In the course of criticizing the Obama speech in Cairo, Father Khalil Samir SJ, a Vatican Islamologist quoted frequently and favorably on this blog, threw a bomb in Israel’s direction:Another ambiguous element [in the Obama Cairo speech] concerns his placing on the same scale the legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday, President Obama commented on the Iranian election : We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways. . . . . Continue Reading »
Doubts about the legitimacy of Friday’s election results in Iran has lead to clashes in the streets between riot police and hundreds of protesters. Gary Sick has more on what may be a political coup by incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, including this fascinating timeline of events: On . . . . Continue Reading »
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