There are 3 pieces of legislation that are making the Coronavirus 10x worse than it ought to be. 1. 1997 Balanced Budget Act: Capped the number of residents and physicians. 2. 2011 Affordable Care Act: Made it illegal for physician ownership of hospitals. 3....
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Yemen Is Shattered And The U.S. Helped The Saudis Break It
by Doug Bandow | Apr 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Five years ago the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invaded neighboring Yemen. The conflict was supposed to be quick and simple, over in a few weeks. Now the once-haughty Saudi royals have offered a ceasefire, after their opponents, Houthi irregulars, captured the province of...
Summary of Diagnostic Test Kits, Treatments and Vaccines Currently In Development
by Steven Woskow | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
The Visual Capitalist has a graphic summary of novel innovations in the development pipeline as of March 30, 2020. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-vaccine-treatment-covid-19-so-far/
Harvard Professor Calls for Totalitarian Fascist Police State
by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog
In The Atlantic. I wonder if Adrian Vermeule thinks the old laws forbidding the killing of Harvard law professors in the interest of the common good should also be overruled.
US Navy Evacuating Aircraft Carrier Infected by Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog
ABANDON SHIP! While you're at it: abandon the empire.
The U.S. Fed Just Became The World’s Banker
by Steven Woskow | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog
From Marketwatch "The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said it was establishing a temporary repo facility for foreign central banks that will help make U.S. dollars available in their jurisdictions. In the new facility, the central banks will be able to temporarily exchange...
Wall Street Journal: NY Hospital Prepares to Begin Triaging Patients
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional...
Police: Murderers
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
Cops kick in wrong door, murder innocent woman sleeping in her bed. Don't worry boys, just tell the judge: "Furtive!" "Waistband!" and you can finish your paid vacation. The "rule of law" is just some made up bullshit. Ask any black woman, she'll tell you, they still...
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Blaming Freedom
Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...
Insurrection of the Mind.
Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...
They Know the Truth
Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...
Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov
I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...
NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa
That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...
The Carrier as Reef Complex: World’s Most Expensive Fish Apartments
*** I have returned from a long sojourn with my wife to Croatia and will be writing more regularly and trying to address issues arising more contemporaneously than the previous month. We were delayed in returning by Hurricane Milton but finally managed to get home:...
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