Norman Borlaug has saved more lives than almost any human who has ever lived. He saved more lives than Captain Sullenburger did by successfully landing his airplane on the Hudson River. He saved more lives than Jonas Salk. And Norman Borlaug died Sunday at 95. Not many of us know about Norman. I ran...
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The Cato Institute’s Michael D. Tanner has published a policy analysis of current health care reform proposals: Obamacare to Come: Seven Bad Ideas for Health Care Reform. The synopsis at that link includes a brief description of the rationing sure to come of any government-mandated plan: The government would undertake comparative-effectiveness research and cost-effectiveness...
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President Obama and his Democratic allies are promising rationed health care for Americans, with the oft-stated position that health care costs are out of control. One statistic they cite is that “80% of a person’s total health care costs comes in the last year of their life”. THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think...
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Death didn’t come soon enough. We saw the teetering, stumbling and falling, but we didn’t notice just how close death’s moment had come. While the verdict is final and certain, many of us ignored the signs. Racism is dead in America. And it has been dead for a while now. Like the movie “Weekend...
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As I noted in DRM: Time for Legislation?, having a “protected key” or other copy protection scheme managed by an outside company restricts consumer rights. In that post, I noted Microsoft’s decision to shut down their authorization servers, effectively disabling the songs that people purchased (Microsoft later relented). Now, 28.8 BILLION dollar cap Yahoo!...
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