Individual Run Health Insurance
People seem to be more proactive about inanimate objects like their car then they are about their own bodies and health.
How Much Profit Do You Need?
Writing for The Huffington Post about the American health insurance industry, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship wonder, “Why is too much not enough?” Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does […]
The Midterms of 2010
Four years after regaining control of the House of Representatives and two years after winning a supermajority in the Senate, the Democrats are hard pressed to defend their position in the 2010 midterm elections for Congress. The overwhelming rejection of Bush era Republicanism has quickly evaporated. The opposition was able to recover in the polls […]
Political Uncertainty in the Netherlands
After the next parliamentary elections, the only viable option may be a minority government.
Long Road Ahead for Spain
Spain is the last major economy of Europe still mired in recession as its government remained committed to socialist doctrine throughout 2009. Massive deficit spending has only worsened the country’s predicament however, forcing Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to finally start reining in Spain’s mounting debt. Last month, Professor Niall Ferguson of Harvard University […]
Fire Bad Teachers!
Unions and regulations protect teachers who don’t do well, to the detriment of their students.
The Fallacies of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power need not be feared like the red death!
Health Insurers On the Defensive
Speaking at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania on Monday, President Barack Obama launched a fierce attack on health insurers who, he said, “continue to ration care on the basis of who’s sick and who’s healthy.” The remark comes amid a renewed wave of renunciations of insurance companies as the administration attempts to push its health-care […]
Your Government Knows Best
Step by step, Americans’ freedoms and rights are violated. Is the country on a road to serfdom?
The Stagnant Hegemon
Although the United States are mired in recession and political disparity, the end of American ascendancy is not inevitable in the short run.
The Decline of States’ Rights
With a population of over three hundred million people and an increasingly diverse set of principles and opinions, the United States has a growth problem. The Founding Fathers predicted this issue and emphasized the importance of local governments. Their logic: that people with similar principles will congregate in similar areas. As members of the overall […]
Congress Goes Nuclear
Republicans go about Washington infuriated these days. Their opposite numbers in Congress are proposing a little-used parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation to pass a final health-care reform bill. Reconciliation, say Republicans, isn’t supposed to be used for “regular” lawmaking. Right-wing commentators are similarly outraged and refer to reconciliation as “the nuclear option.” Is it? Reconciliation […]
US Must Be Consistent Toward China
Pestering China won’t get America anywhere. It must be consistent in its policy of “strategic reassurance”.
Will the Looted Just Shrug?
The reaction to one senator’s temporary block of a welfare bill shows what the welfare state has done to America.
It Will Still Be an Asian Century
The region still far outperforms Europe and the United States in terms of economic growth.