government programs

How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

To finance "entitlement" programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who are against...

California Dreamin (Of Quotas)

Caltrans, the California state transportation agency, remains addicted to quotas, even after the passage of Prop. 209 a number of years ago should have forced it to go cold turkey.The agency tried...

Drug Prices Up 100 Percent -- Or Higher

Drug companies are quietly pushing through price hikes ranging from 100 percent to more than 1,000 percent for a small but growing number of prescription drugs, driving up costs for insurers,...

1000% Increase to Cover Costs

Someone explain this:Drug companies are quietly pushing through price hikes of 100% or even more than 1,000% for a very small but growing number of prescription drugs, helping to drive up costs...

Sri Lankan Born CEO Indicted

SRI LANKAN BORN CEO OF A LARGE HOSPITAL IS INDICTED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY FOR ALLEGEDLY DEFRAUDING MEDICAL CARE SYSTEM BY FALSE PATIENTS (By Walter...

Election 2008

Obama and Renewing American Competitiveness (Continued) By Tim Holland As I mentioned in my previous analysis of Senator Barak Obama?s speech on the above topic (TTC June 29, 2008), there is a...

Politics: What compromising principle will get you ...

An interesting column by Paul Krugman for a variety of reasons.“Owning a home lies at the heart of the American dream.” So declared President Bush in 2002, introducing his “Homeownership Challenge” —...

Is There A Pattern Here? If So, Is There A Name For It?

Barack Obama opposes school vouchers for poor families but sends his own children to a private school;supports “campaign finance reform” but opts out of public financing since he can raise more...

The Progressive Poison Pill

Paul Krugman just penned an article accusing the Republicans of using tax cuts as a "poison pill," constraining any attempt by the next administration to change the course of American policy. ...

Libertarians Hop Into Bed With Former GOP Congressman

More than 650 delegates of the Libertarian Party have chosen former Republican Congressman Bob Barr to be their standard-bearer in November. Barr claimed victory at the party?s national convention...

Obama And The Emerging Tradition Of Emotive, Non-Rational Liberalism

Lately I’ve been trying to get a handle on what is widely said to be our enduring, endemic, pervasive racism, but a racism so “underground, hidden, subtle” that it is visible only to highly trained...