Ignoring Economics of Health Care

by | Sep 27, 2013 | Health Care

From James Taranto’s Best of the Web in The Wall Street Journal, The Young and the Clueless; The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don’t make a lot of money–and many young people...

Obama’s Kryptonite

by | Sep 26, 2013 | Health Care

My criticisms of Obama Care have been long and many. Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit has an excellent post summarizing the hubris and damage of this horrendous bill.  Read The Obamacare Nightmare. Excerpts: For starters, it is inconceivable that any government...

Turning Revolutionaries into Parasites

by | Sep 26, 2013 | Uncategorized

“Countries arrive at the stationary state, as Adam Smith argued, when their ‘laws and institutions’ degenerate to the point that elite rent-seeking dominates the economic and political process. I have tried to suggest that this is the case in important parts of the...

Political Science of the IPCC

by | Sep 25, 2013 | Global Warming

By Donna LaFramboise In The Wall Street Journal Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report Every six years, a U.N. panel issues its findings, and the media hail them as definitive. Skepticism may be in order. Excerpt: When the IPCC issues a report, it assures the...