Fantasy baseball managers have far more data to evaluate players for their teams than patients and referring doctors have in matters affecting life and death...
Many in the media and in politics have gone ballistic over the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry called Social Security "a Ponzi scheme"...Sound bites are usually not very sound, and they are an irresponsible way to discuss serious issues...
Barack Obama has done the United States a great, though unforeseen, favor...He turned theory and “what ifs” into fact for all America to see, experience, and, yes, suffer through...
Team Obama knows they’d never win the public debate if they admitted that the President is now proposing massive tax increases to “balance” previously enacted spending cuts, so they’re engaging in a little misdirection...
Now that President Obama has let both the expenditure and revenue-raising shoes drop, it is clear that the costs to state and local governments of the new jobs bill could very well equal—perhaps exceed—the benefits they might receive...
by Russ Robertsvia Room for Debate (New York Times)
Monday, September 19, 2011
For the last 25 years, Washington politicians and policy makers have consistently cushioned the market forces that would have punished executives at large financial institutions...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Monday, September 19, 2011
At the end of the day, Palestinian aspirations would be advanced more by appealing for international support on the basis of the dignity of Palestinians creating their own state rather than having a U.N. coronation for one that may not be strong enough to support itself...
A federal reserve meeting preview and former Treasury Secretary George Schultz shares his ideas on how to get the economy growing...
[Interview begins about 11:40]
GUESTS: Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch; Henry Miller, Hoover Institution; Rufus Phillips, Why Vietnam Matters; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal; Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy blog...
