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Promise may falter
From the San Jose Mercury News, Friday, Nov. 20:
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A phony ‘fix’ for health care
"You can fool some of the people all of the time," Abraham Lincoln said, "and all of the people some of the time." Apparently Congress agrees. Indeed, lawmakers are counting on it: In an effort to fool just enough people for just long enough, they're engaging in budget tricks to ram throu…
Nov 24, 2009 | 11:35 am | Loading…
Climategate: Falsified research scandal rocks warming debate
“[T]he criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.”—Karl Popper, “Science as Falsification,” 1963.
Nov 24, 2009 | 10:00 am | Loading…
Health ‘reform’ that burdens our young
One of our long-running political stories is the economic assault on the young by the old. We have become a society that invests in its past and disfavors the future. This makes no sense for the nation, but as politics it makes complete sense. The elderly and near elderly are better organ…
Nov 24, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Presidential backbone
From the San Diego Union-Tribune, Thursday, Nov. 19:
Nov 23, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Giving terrorists perverse incentives
For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
Nov 23, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Governing with Words
"Keep your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it! Lots of great stories about my family, Alaska, and the incredible honor it was to run alongside Senator John McCain."
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Barack Obama’s chump diplomacy
Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama -- loves to stiff him, play him along and manipulate him.
Nov 21, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Drug makers’ deals
From the San Jose Mercury News, Tuesday, Nov. 17:
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Mammogram advice is harbinger of rationing
I am shocked and appalled at the cataclysmic shift in the guidelines to later age and less frequent mammograms. This is diametrically opposite from the American Cancer Society guidelines, and from what most oncologists and practicing physicians think is needed.
Nov 18, 2009 | 9:30 am | Loading…
China’s yuan, not the dollar, is too cheap
From Berlin to Bangkok, governments are screaming about the falling dollar, because they can no longer rely on reckless American consumers to power their economies.
Nov 18, 2009 | 9:25 am | Loading…
Obamacare: Buy now, pay later
There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, driven heavily by an aging population and uncontrolled health costs. As we recover slowly fro…
Nov 17, 2009 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Medicalizing mass murder
What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre playin…
Nov 16, 2009 | 12:30 am | Loading…
9/11 trials will highlight fairness
The accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four of his accused accomplices will stand trial where they should have been tried in the first place -- a civilian federal courthouse in Manhattan only blocks from the site of the World Trade Center.
Nov 16, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Health bill is a start
From the San Jose Mercury News, Tuesday, Nov. 10:
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