I am really tired of the morality police going after smokers and obese people—all in the name of “health” of course. From the NYT story:Arizona, like many other states, says it is no longer able to finance its Medicaid program adequately. As part of a plan to cut costs, the state . . . . Continue Reading »
Legendary Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield on the poor choices students make in selecting their college courses and majors : In colleges today, choice is in and requirements are out. Only the military academies, certain Great-Books colleges and MIT (and its like) want to tell students what they . . . . Continue Reading »
The peak oil crowd may be headed for the same fate as the dinosaurs : Are we living at the beginning of the Age of Fossil Fuels, not its final decades? The very thought goes against everything that politicians and the educated public have been taught to believe in the past generation. According to . . . . Continue Reading »
WIN the war in Iraq? Walter Russell Mead thinks so. . . . . Continue Reading »
Foremost Health Care today stated that none of its insureds would have to wait more than 18 weeks to receive treatment from a specialist referred by their primary care physician. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacting the news in a press release said, “This is what happens when we let greed run . . . . Continue Reading »
Gallup has a new poll out that measures the public’s beliefs about the moral propriety of certain behaviors. This is not the same thing, obviously, as to whether such policies should be legal. The following are the ones relevant to our discussions here: From the Poll:- Doctor . . . . Continue Reading »
In an examination of the possible causes for the recent (and unexpected) drop in crime, the esteemed criminologist James Q. Wilson includes this surprising suggestion : There may also be a medical reason for the decline in crime. For decades, doctors have known that children with lots of lead in . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study finds that graduates of Protestant Christian schools have different traits than those who attend Catholic and non-religious private schools: More Catholic school administrators ranked the university as the top priority, while more Protestant school administrators ranked family as the . . . . Continue Reading »
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