Commentary
Business & Economics
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
Commentary
A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has taken center stage in Washington with the release of his highly anticipated health care reform plan. His proposal will likely serve as the foundation of whatever legislation emerges from Congress. Sen. Baucus had promised to be bipartisan. This summer, he convened the ...
California
San Francisco Style Health Care May Be Coming
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Commentary
Beware of Obama Care
If our health care system is as bad as some have suggested in “Letters to the Editor” and responses to the earlier blog, and the Canadian, U.K. and other European styled socialized health care systems are so great, then we should see Americans flocking to Canada to take advantage of ...
Commentary
Haste makes waste has never been truer in terms of health-care reform
Talk about crazy ideas. The NFL wants to try out a new concept during the pre-season. When the Broncos and Raiders play in Oakland, the referees will wear Raider caps and will be chosen from a pool of former and current members of the Raiders organization who have given verbal ...
Commentary
School Choice Would Satisfy Hunger for Change
Since 2000 education funding has increase 49 percent, and student performance has yet to see improvements. However, Secretary Duncan stated, “America urgently needs to elevate the quality of K-12 schooling and boost college graduation rates, not simply to propel the economic recovery but also because students need stronger skills to ...
Commentary
‘Cost’: Health Care’s Four-Letter Word
Forbes.com, July 24, 2009 So why not foster competition? World War II veteran Jack Tagg is losing vision in his right eye. He suffers from macular degeneration, a progressive illness that causes blindness. A drug could slow the deterioration, but the British government refused to pay for it, arguing he ...
Business & Economics
Cut the Budget, Arnold
Could things get any worse for California’s economy? State unemployment in June jumped to 11.6 percent — the highest rate on record, and among the top six nationally. Frantic negotiations between Governor Schwarzenegger and Sacramento lawmakers have yielded a deal to meet the government’s $26-billion budget shortfall, but as of ...
Commentary
Sally C. Pipes: Texas-style health care reform is bigger and better
President Obama’s campaign for healthcare reform has run into an unexpected roadblock — other Democrats. And, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said yesterday that the Senate would not be voting on a bill prior to the August recess. The president wanted to get a bill passed before the recess ...
Commentary
Anti-Aging Technology Is No Excuse for Bad Habits
For those interested in longevity, July was a good news month. Recently published research in the journal Science shows that caloric restriction helps monkeys live longer and healthier, while a parallel study demonstrated the possibility that a drug could mimic this process. Clearly, new technologies aimed at lengthening and improving ...
Obama Misunderestimates Why He Won the Presidency
There are limits to what a great communicator can accomplish if he is communicating the wrong message. In the last few weeks, Barack Obama has been receiving a lesson in this truth and learning, perhaps, too, that he, in the words of his less audibly gifted predecessor, “misunderestimated” why he ...
A Baucus-sized blunder on health care reform
Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, D-Mont., has taken center stage in Washington with the release of his highly anticipated health care reform plan. His proposal will likely serve as the foundation of whatever legislation emerges from Congress. Sen. Baucus had promised to be bipartisan. This summer, he convened the ...
San Francisco Style Health Care May Be Coming
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently wrote a column for the Huffington Post promoting his Healthy San Francisco plan as a model for the federal “public option” touted by President Obama. Healthy San Francisco could be a model, but not in the way Mayor Newsom imagines. Currently under negotiation between ...
Beware of Obama Care
If our health care system is as bad as some have suggested in “Letters to the Editor” and responses to the earlier blog, and the Canadian, U.K. and other European styled socialized health care systems are so great, then we should see Americans flocking to Canada to take advantage of ...
Haste makes waste has never been truer in terms of health-care reform
Talk about crazy ideas. The NFL wants to try out a new concept during the pre-season. When the Broncos and Raiders play in Oakland, the referees will wear Raider caps and will be chosen from a pool of former and current members of the Raiders organization who have given verbal ...
School Choice Would Satisfy Hunger for Change
Since 2000 education funding has increase 49 percent, and student performance has yet to see improvements. However, Secretary Duncan stated, “America urgently needs to elevate the quality of K-12 schooling and boost college graduation rates, not simply to propel the economic recovery but also because students need stronger skills to ...
‘Cost’: Health Care’s Four-Letter Word
Forbes.com, July 24, 2009 So why not foster competition? World War II veteran Jack Tagg is losing vision in his right eye. He suffers from macular degeneration, a progressive illness that causes blindness. A drug could slow the deterioration, but the British government refused to pay for it, arguing he ...
Cut the Budget, Arnold
Could things get any worse for California’s economy? State unemployment in June jumped to 11.6 percent — the highest rate on record, and among the top six nationally. Frantic negotiations between Governor Schwarzenegger and Sacramento lawmakers have yielded a deal to meet the government’s $26-billion budget shortfall, but as of ...
Sally C. Pipes: Texas-style health care reform is bigger and better
President Obama’s campaign for healthcare reform has run into an unexpected roadblock — other Democrats. And, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, said yesterday that the Senate would not be voting on a bill prior to the August recess. The president wanted to get a bill passed before the recess ...
Anti-Aging Technology Is No Excuse for Bad Habits
For those interested in longevity, July was a good news month. Recently published research in the journal Science shows that caloric restriction helps monkeys live longer and healthier, while a parallel study demonstrated the possibility that a drug could mimic this process. Clearly, new technologies aimed at lengthening and improving ...
