Malpractice Crisis is Real
This USA Today editorial says: Chris Heffner, a neurosurgeon in southern Illinois, stopped treating head-trauma patients when his annual malpractice insurance premium doubled to $265,000. With only two neurosurgeons in the area, brain-trauma victims now have to be airlifted to St. Louis... The malpractice crisis is real, though concentrated in ...
Interesting Concept, But It Will Never Catch On
Why isn't Al Gore's name on this e-mail? Hat tip: Slashdot ...
Where is Putin Taking Russia?
Mark McDonald of Knight Ridder provides an unhappy assessment: "We're in a downward spiral, and it's a tragedy," said Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who's now a millionaire businessman and an opposition member of the Duma, Russia's lower house of Parliament. "I have no illusions about who rules Russia ...
Rethinking No-Fault Divorce
Boots and Sabers makes a good point about this article on rethinking no-fault divorce ...
Michelle Malkin: Google News Blackout?
Michelle Malkin is wondering if Google News has a biased algorithm, since the CBS story is all over the Internet, yet the CBS report does not appear on Google's list of top U.S. news stories. Here's my guess, and it is only a guess: The Google News algorithim may have ...
Arguments Against Social Security Privatization Demolished
Eric Berlin quotes and then demolishes a New York Times op-ed against Social Security privatization. Sample comments from a piece that deserves to be read by everyone: If you, as an individual, put a certain amount of money into the Social Security fund, and later in life you receive benefits ...
Regret The Error: Rich Guys Look Alike…
Regret the Error has found a funny error in the Wall Street Journal ...
Overlawyered: Newsweek v. Washington Monthly
We are in for a tumultuous four years, folks. Nationally, the Right is in the most advantageous policymaking position it has been in since before the New Deal. The Left knows it, and is throwing everything it can against the Right in an attempt to stop or slow its agenda ...
Overlawyered: Newsweek v. Washington Monthly
We are in for a tumultuous four years, folks. Nationally, the Right is in the most advantageous policymaking position it has been in since before the New Deal. The Left knows it, and is throwing everything it can against the Right in an attempt to stop or slow its agenda ...
Penn State: Deer Hunting Mecca
When I saw this post on Sic Semper Tyrannis, I thought: What, no Penn State? Penn State indeed ...
Trackbacks Enabled?
Thanks to Diggers Realm, which I learned about from The Sparse Matrix, I learned how to add a trackback feature to this blog for the first time ever. At least, I think I have... I'll try a test. If you don't see a trackback below this post, I failed ...
Ryan Sager: Law and the Armstrong Williams Case
I've been reading various bloggers' takes on the Armstrong Williams case (La Shawn Barber, Ramblings' Journal, Booker Rising, Michelle Malkin, Croooow Blog, Tapscott's Copy Desk, Joust the Facts, She Who Will Be Obeyed! and many, many others), but I didn't see anyone address the issue I was wondering about: What ...
Staples – Sinclair – Media Matters: Opinion Roundup
The Staples - Sinclair - Media Matters story continues... When we last visited our cast of characters, Staples was adamant that it is non-political and has not decided to cease advertising on Sinclair news. Media Matters was adamant that Staples had made an ad decision "based in part on the ...
Wacky Warning Labels
Some very funny warning labels, brought to you by trial lawyers Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch ...
Jobs Market Responds to Lower Tax Rates
A little something to read for those liberals who claim there is nothing wrong with Social Security that couldn't be repaired by repealing President Bush's tax cuts. The tax cuts improved the economy, which helps Social Security. It just doesn't help it enough ...
Flopping Aces: Putin the Dictator
Flopping Aces has a very thought-provoking and informative post up today about the future of Russia under Vladimir Putin. Curt has excerpts from and links to pieces by historian Niall Ferguson and bloggers at The Moderate Voice, One Step at a Time, and Untimely Thoughts ...
Staples – Sinclair: Media Matters Strikes Back
Curiouser and curiouser. Media Matters has posted a letter to Staples CEO Ron Sargent on its website saying "Staples, Inc. officials reviewed, edited, and approved the Media Matters press release of January 4, 2005, in both draft and final form." This is the Media Matters press release that begins: Media ...
No Sinclair Boycott, Staples Says — Media Matters Report “Misrepresented” Facts, Company Spokeman Says
As promised, here is a more detailed description of my conversation this evening with Staples spokesman Paul Capelli. I wrote it as a press statement and we are releasing it as one. (It is only fair, as we issued a press statement yesterday critical of Staples.) No Boycott of Sinclair, ...
Good Reading
If you have not visited Varifrank to read Today, I was "Unprofessional"..., you are missing a good post. This Varifrank post is noteworthy, too. As is this about the sudden death of a co-worker. Hat tip: The Anchoress, another blog new to me that is really good ...
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