THIS IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG…DEFIBILLATORS, DIALYSIS ARE NEXT….RSK http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/24/the-senate-health-bill-taxing-medical-innovation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell What Medical Innovations Does The Senate Health Bill Tax? Heritage.org It is a well known economic policy rule that if you want less of something you tax it, and if you want more of something you subsidize it. Policymakers frequently follow this rule to […]
Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required http://blog.american.com/?p=7572 By Nick Schulz A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes […]
Many Reasons Thanksgiving Is Special I always celebrate my birthday on Thanksgiving. Selfishly, at least I’m guaranteed a turkey and good bottle of Beaujolais. When fortunate, I’m able to share it with family and friends, which is the ultimate of what Thanksgiving is: time to give thanks for others sharing theirs and our ability to […]
Exclusive: Hasan: A Good Muslim Bill Siegel Nationally syndicated talk radio host Monica Crowley once asked the team of psychiatrists at the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility to describe the difference between psychological disorder and committed Jihadism. They had no answer. Much of the mainstream media has, at least subtly if not directly, attempted to distinguish […]
A Passage to Washington: India’s Prime Minister in DC Posted By Claudia Rosett [Ed. note: My mistake below — President Obama’s state dinner for India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled not for Wednesday, but for Tuesday. Apologies for the mix-up, and now you know, I’m not on this year’s White House A-list). Wednesday, on […]
Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud (PJM Exclusive) By Ian Plimer On In the geological past, there have been six major ice ages. During five of these six ice ages, the atmospheric carbon dioxide content was higher than at present. It is clear that the colorless, odorless, non-poisonous gas called carbon dioxide did not drive […]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 EDITORIAL: Obama’s sacked inspector general THE WASHINGTON TIMES Even as congressional investigators demolish White House explanations for its firing last summer of a key inspector general, new documents show that an entire second area of misleading administration statements has gone largely unexplored. Each new revelation in the case suggests that Gerald […]
Climate Fraud and the Environmental Agenda By J.R. Dunn The debate on environmentalism — specifically as regards the environmental movement itself — has been marked by confusion since the beginning. Criticism of environmentalist thinking tends to confuse means with goals. Environmentalist reforms, however they are presented and whatever they may involve, are simply means of […]
TRUE AND INEXPLICABLE…THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE ADL WAS THE PREMIER JEWISH DEFENSE ORGANIZATION….WHAT HAPPENED?…RSK Anti-Defamation League runs interference for anti-Israel Obama By Don Feder Is there any doubt that the ADL has become an adjunct of the DNC? The Anti-Defamation League pushes a leftist agenda in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism and bigotry. […]
