This short post is a thanks to KMPH-CA for its video report about "ObamaCare Having A Destructive Effect On ERs". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mU7eRPYSE Where was this kind of common sense reporting when the "Health Law-That-Can-Be-Anything" was first concocted?...
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Why Don’t Progressives Recognize Their Policies’ Failures and Change? Part 2 of 2
Continuing from my previous post: Why don't progressives/statists/elitists see these enormous problems and costs which damage most of us and say, “You know, we’ve tried this for fifty years and it hasn’t worked. Let’s at least consider something else.”? The Answer A...
Why Don’t Progressives Recognize Their Policies’ Failures and Change? Part 1 of 2
Background Let’s start with two irrefutable laws that always govern no matter how much wishful thinking is thrown at them: 1. Resources—labor, capital, natural resources, time--are always limited and must always be allocated in some way. Allocation by price is...
When the Facts Don’t Add Up, Make Up Stories and Call Them Facts
Timothy Egan’s Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, of March 15, 2014, entitled “Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia”, tries to link 19th century English complicity in the Irish potato famine to Paul Ryan’s concerns about creating multi-generational government dependency in...
Truth Has Consequences: Women and Men are Different
I’m beginning a series on common sense truths which are real, and which therefore have negative consequences when we ignore them or try to pretend that they don’t exist. The following is written with two assumptions in mind: The vast majority of women and men in the...
An Alternate “State of the Union” Preamble
In recognition of President Obama's State of the Union address, I'd like to share with you the very different approach of President William Harrison in my novel, The President, written almost twenty years ago. Enjoy. State of the Union Preamble
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This post originally appeared as a guest post by Parker Hudson at MichaelYoussef.com on December 16, 2013. It is particularly relevant to the fictional story told in Enemy In The Room. Since I am occasionally critical of our President’s foreign policies, I have...
Vote For Me and You Can Stay On Your Parents’ Health Plan
It’s a benefit I’m giving to you. And I’m doing good stuff for millions of other folks, too. It’s all free, paid for by your parents and the huge insurance companies. Feels great, doesn’t it! Well, yes, we actually did have to cancel your parents’ plan. It wasn’t...
Why Not Try Healthcare Vouchers?
The healthcare delivery and payment debacle of the previous decades, brought to a head with the passage and current dismantling of Obamacare, lead us to find an alternative that might actually work. As neither a doctor nor a politician, but as a student of economics,...
Freedom of Worship Pushes Secularist Victory
One guaranteed way to win an argument is to insure that your opponent never has any input into the debate. The secular lock-out of religious input into the public square has been gaining strength for decades, but now the pace of this discrimination is rapidly...
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