by Henry Oliner | May 7, 2017 | Crime, Guns, Philosophy, Random
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The ‘Right’ to Health Care, Declaring a right in a scarce good is meaningless. It is a rhetorical gesture without any application to the events and conundrums of the real world. If the Dalai Lama were to lead...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 13, 2015 | Random, Social
from 15 Statistics That Destroy Liberal Narratives by John Hawkins in Townhall: Less than 3 percent of the workforce earns the minimum; more than 60 percent of those who do earn it get a raise within a year; more than half of minimum-wage earners are students or other...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 25, 2013 | Bush, Random
“I also quoted a favorite passage of mine from Robert Frost’s poem “The Black Cottage”: Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. The “truths” that form the bedrock of our democratic culture fell out of favor in the first...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 1, 2010 | Business, Economics, Economy, Foreign policy, Israel, Politics, Random
We mortals pride ourselves as rational beings, but we act emotionally. We get attached to previous positions, and will discount or filter evidence rather than change our minds. We read the news for confirmation rather than information. We are so inundated with...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 23, 2010 | Foreign policy, Israel, Random, Taxes
tips to Bruce Tuchman “Israel (its medical technology) has saved more Muslim and Arab lives than all the Arab and Muslim nations combined.” a hell of a speech
by Henry Oliner | Mar 22, 2010 | Israel, Politics, Random
The biggest risk the Democrats take on the comprehensive approach to health care is that they will find it much harder to use the health insurance companies as the demon to unite their troops. They may try to continue to blame others for our health care mess, but now...
