On the way in to work this morning, I saw a vehicle with a bumper sticker "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" and various other green bumper stickers. Presumably, the point was that by buying local, you avoid extra greenhouse emissions from ... READ MORE
David Ridenour shares his appreciation of a recent Mark Steyn column: This comes from Mark Steyn in the latest edition of Hillsdale's Imprimis. Steyn describes how, in order to ensure that Muslims aren't offended, local British councils are banning workers ... READ MORE
Ron Bailey of Reason magazine takes a look at Congress' flawed Clean Water Restoration Act, quoting from this National Center paper by Peyton Knight ... READ MORE
Betsy McCaughey has an op-ed on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. I left the following comment on the Journal website: I found it impossible to read Dr. Emanuel's Lancet article (Jan 2009) without getting a chill. He ... READ MORE
Media: Obama's a neologist; Bush was just dumb. Jokes to play on the President. Where does YOUR state rank? (H/T Coyote Blog.) Examiner: If Americans were getting an average of 20 miles to the gallon before Cash for Clunkers, they ... READ MORE
The perpetually non-serious (despite his grim look) New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed on ABC's This Week that "the argument against the public option is sheer nonsense, we know that, it's nothing except the insurance lobby." (See the last ... READ MORE
Senator John D. Rockfeller IV (D-WV) has sent a letter to the top 15 health insurance companies asking them to report how profitable they are. In part because Rockefeller is a Senate Committee chairman, the letters carry with them the ... READ MORE
Join me in urging our President and every Member of Congress to read the article "How American Health Care Killed My Father" by David Goldhill in the September issue of the Atlantic. Sample paragraph: I'm a Democrat, and have long ... READ MORE
"In 2008, the median wait time from general practitioner referral to treatment by a specialist was 17.3 weeks in Canada. Despite substantial increases in both health spending and federal cash transfers to the provinces for health care over the last ... READ MORE
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, has eight suggestions for improving health care in today's Wall Street Journal. They are, quoting Mackey: Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings ... READ MORE
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