The other day, I wrote a little piece about the silence among our self-appointed privacy guardians at the monstrous breach of privacy perpetrated by the Chinese in the OPM hack.
Yes, the health insurance you can buy has been salted up with extras, competition severely restricted, and large insurers so deeply in bed with their regulators that to call insurance "private" is a stretch and "competitive" a dream.
Today's (June 18) Wall Street Journal has two noteworthy pieces on tax reform, "Rubio's tax mistake" in the Review and Outlook and Rand Paul's "Blow Up the Tax Code and Start Over" Perhaps now that pretty much everyone agrees the tax code is a mess, something will be done about it.
“God is on the side of the big battalions.” The historical record is opaque about whether it was Napoleon, Turenne, Voltaire, or indeed any identifiable Frenchman who made that statement, but, in this age of supposedly post-industrial warfare, He has apparently changed His mind. Equipped with an iPhone and GPS-guided munitions, God has broken the phalanx, emptied the battlefield, and super-empowered the individual. Mass—particularly the large military formations of the modern era: infantry divisions and corps, aircraft carrier battle groups, tactical air wings—has gone out of style.
Germ line gene therapy could be the only means to treating certain genetic diseases, but some in the scientific community are calling for an indefinite moratorium on its use. But shouldn’t 21st-century medicine offer the possibility of repairing embryos that will become patients with sickle-cell disease and eliminate the disease from future generations? We don’t need a moratorium. We need to push the frontiers of medicine to cure more patients.
Obtaining medicines from plants is not new. Aspirin was first isolated from the bark of the willow tree in the eighteenth century. And many other common pharmaceuticals, including morphine, codeine, and the fiber supplement Metamucil, are purified from the world’s flora.
Hoover Institution fellows George Shultz and James Goodby speak on "North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, China, Iran - concern over nuclear weapons continues to grab news headlines. Nine nations evidently possess nuclear weapons and at least a rudimentary means of delivering them."
Hoover Institution fellow Russell Roberts on Uber's business model and how "California Labor Commission has ruled that one of the company's drivers qualifies as an employee."
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen, fills in for Hugh Hewitt: This hour, talking with Mark Steyn, Columnist to The World, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, and Reince Priebus, RNC chairman.
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen, fills in for Hugh Hewitt: This hour, talking with Carl Cameron, Fox News chief political correspondent, Dr. John H. Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist blogger, Kori Schake, Hoover Institution research fellow, and James Lileks, humorist and columnist.
Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen, fills in for Hugh Hewitt: This hour, talking with callers, Eliana Johnson, National Review Washington editor, and James Hohmann, Washington Post political reporter.
A new knowledge network, EdCasting, which aims to link knowledge influencers to two billion people worldwide, was launched May 30 at Stanford University, during the Future Learning 2020 summit.
And so continues the great monetary policy experiment wherein a nervous world waits to see whether the U.S. Federal Reserve can finally raise interest rates without crashing the stock market, strangling the recovery and reminding us all what late 2008 looked like all over again.
