Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Our school system is dealing with a very fluid situation, as information about the swine flu changes from minute to minute. My sense, currently, is that it’s real, it’s out there, it’s spreading fast (as if it was November, not April) and, in the U.S., it’s not a very serious
Continue readingI just copied the following from Drudge: Possible Swine Flu Outbreak At NYC Prep School… Most fatal flu victims aged between 25-45… Swine flu could infect trade and travel… Schwarzenegger has ‘rigorous’ plan… WHO ready with antivirals… The mysterious respiratory illness… CDC says too late to contain… 60 DEAD: Mexico
Continue readingWhen I was growing up, my father was a teacher with a lousy salary and lousy benefits. The only good thing he had was his dental plan. It was a wonderful dental plan. Provided that we got our teeth cleaned and checked twice a year, it would pay the total
Continue readingFor three years, a single British hospital that was obsessed with following government health care mandates to the letter, succeeded only in killing 1,200 patients unnecessarily: Twelve NHS trusts are being investigated following a damning report which today slammed ‘appalling’ care at a single hospital. Hundreds of patients may have
Continue readingToday’s news stories help to clarify Obama’s and the Democrats’ priorities: Money for parties? Check. Assistance for politically friendly papers that the American public refuses to read? Check. Money for soldiers wounded in the service of their country? What! Are you kidding, dude? No way! The leader of the nation’s
Continue readingAgain, Britain reminds us of the possible consequences of allowing the government to control health care. (See here and here.) As always, what amazes me about the Left is it’s never ending optimism about the government. Its members will cheerfully concede that the government pretty much bungles most of the
Continue readingYes, Minister! was a very, very funny British TV show from the 1980s, before Britain (and the BBC) went completely round the bend. There is no better argument for school choice and non-socialized medicine than this funny clip from that show: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDb2V86Ei0&eurl=http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/[/youtube] Hat tip: IWF
Continue readingRobert Knight wrote a long article commenting on a Washington Post article stating that homophobia is the main cause of a huge increase in AIDS among the world’s homosexual population. Here’s the WaPo take on the subject: Twenty-five years after AIDS was branded the “gay plague,” the virus is again
Continue readingBritain’s Telegraph has three interesting articles, and the London Times one: Read about the vast difference between Britain’s and France’s socialized medicine. I’d certainly like to know what accounts for the difference before I start making changes to the American system. Color me skeptical, but I bet Obama, who shows
Continue readingThere’s talk of Obama giving Hillary the green light to socialize American medicine if she’ll walk away from the primaries. Melanie Phillips gives us a good example of why the renewed specter of socialized medicine should worry us: To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof
Continue readingMany years ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who was a medical student on his neurology rotation. He related what was, to me, an amazing story. The patient he saw that day was a fairly young man who had suffered a major stroke, resulting in an almost
Continue readingOne of Obama’s (and Clinton’s) many sins is the desire to nationalize medicine, so that the government gets to decide who deserves treatment and who doesn’t. Britain, as always, serves as a useful horrible example of what can happen under such a system: A 61-year-old grandmother has been denied vital
Continue readingIf you suffer from migraines, read this from a fellow sufferer. You may well see yourself in the opinion piece, although I’m grateful that I never suffered migraines as severe as those that affected Ms. Hustvedt. Certainly, though, I suffered from the enough to make parts of my life really
Continue readingAIDS is a disease that does not distinguish between race, religion, sex, or national origin. Like all diseases, it is opportunistic, and thrives when behaviors provide perfect incubation and vector situations. The promiscuity that characterized gay sex in the late 1970s and 1980s was the perfect petri dish for the
Continue readingThe kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids
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