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Analysis and Commentary

Whose Medical Decisions?: Part IV

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The serious, and sometimes chilling, provisions of the medical care legislation that President Obama has been trying to rush through Congress are important enough for all of us to stop and think, even though his political strategy from the outset has been to prevent us from having time to stop and think about it...

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Inside Obama Administration, a Tug of War Over Nuclear Warheads

with William J. Perryvia Global Security Newswire
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden in early June blocked a Defense Department bid to revive a defunct program aimed at fielding modern nuclear warheads across the strategic arsenal, according to those familiar with the episode (see GSN, June 24)...

Analysis and Commentary

Health Care Hyperbole

by Clint Bolickvia Forbes
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

By possibly taking the public option off the table, Democrats who favor nationalized health care have acknowledged that their opponents are winning the public relations debate...

Analysis and Commentary

Whose Medical Decisions?

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage...

Analysis and Commentary

Whose Medical Decisions?: Part II

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

When famed bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said: "Because that's where the money is."...

Analysis and Commentary

American Health Care Once Again

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Monday, August 17, 2009

In a recent post (see my discussion on July 28) I explained why the American health delivery system is superior in some important dimensions to health care in most other advanced countries...

Analysis and Commentary

The Next Step in the Taiwan-China Dance

by Richard V. Allenvia Wall Street Journal
Sunday, August 16, 2009

When Richard Nixon conceived the strategy in 1967 to open a door to the People's Republic of China (PRC), he had only a vague notion of how "success" could actually be measured...

Analysis and Commentary

Immediate benefit hides harm of clunkers program

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom Communications
Friday, August 14, 2009

Most have no time to consider the big picture, so when the Cash for Clunkers program comes their way, they think only of the immediate consequences...

Analysis and Commentary

A Sickly Medical Device Safety Act

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Forbes
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Congressional mischief comes in large packages, like health care reform, and in small bundles, like the ill-advised Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 (MDSA) which is now moving forward in both the House and Senate...

Analysis and Commentary

A runaway deficit may soon test Obama’s luck

by Niall Fergusonvia Financial Times
Monday, August 10, 2009

President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat...

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