Mar28th2007
Writing in the New York Times, economist Tyler Cowen compares healthcare in the United States with that of Europe:
Economic Scene
Abolishing the Middlemen Won’t Make Health Care a Free Lunch
By TYLER COWEN
Published: March 22, 2007
Proponents of single-payer national health insurance note that private health insurance has overhead costs of 10 to 25 percent of expenditures. Medicare, […]
Mar26th2007
From the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal:
Subpoena Assault
Congress’s real goal is crippling the Bush Presidency.
Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
On Tuesday, White House Counsel Fred Fielding offered Congress a chance to question several top Presidential aides about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys–so long as the questioning was done privately, without […]
Mar21st2007
Apple CEO Jobs attacks teacher unions
By APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers.
Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs.
“What kind of person could […]
Mar8th2007
Be Afraid of President McCain
Mar7th2007
I am now officially registered to attend 2007’s Libertarian FreedomFest, in Las Vegas. It will be from July 5th — 7th and I encourage all Free thinkers and non free thinkers alike to attend. I have never been to a political convention before, but given that this year they will be honoring the late Milton […]