Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey, including my family and me, appreciate the outpouring of support from across the country. President Donald Trump has even pledged to donate one million dollars to relief efforts. These private donations will be much more valuable...
In 2009, former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin raised the kind of ruckus she’s known for with her comment on the then-notional Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” In a Facebook note, she wrote: “The America I know and love is not one in...
The non-thinking of many highly educated people is sobering. Case in point: The Wall Street Journal ran a letter to the editor yesterday, written by a physician from Berkeley, Calif., who spoke of the efficiencies and wonders of a single-payer system for medical care...
The United Airlines CEO was another in a long list of business executives who have had to appear before a congressional committee of mostly lawyers who have never run anything. The inquisition is always the same: Executives have to prostrate themselves before the...
Scene: Suburban house in metro Washington, D.C. A GS-12 bureaucrat with the FDA arrives home and is greeted at the door by his wife. “Hi honey, how was your day?” asks the wife, who had just gotten home from her job with the Department of Labor. “It was great,”...
CIA Director Pompeo says "we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us." [Link] CIA Director Pompeo called Wikileaks a "hostile intelligence service." [Link] B Two dozen US insurance companies are suing Saudi...
You want to know why the “freedom caucus” has balked at passing the Trump-backed Ryancare health care proposal? Because the package does not address the core problem of the existing system. They are leaning – correctly – on a brilliant insight from F.A. Hayek. Let’s...
It was almost a certainty that ObamaCare would not be replaced or reformed enough to restore a consumer market in medical care/insurance, one in which the consumer is at the top of the pyramid instead of the bottom. Why was it almost a certainty? Because the...
