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Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 27, 2020
“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety,” Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, quoted an employee of Britain’s National Health Service. Horton agrees. It’s “a national scandal.” But now things are looking up. “[T]he British government asked people to help the National Health…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: January 22, 2019
Surely there’s something good in the first legislation put forth by the brand-new Democratic House majority — though nothing jumps to mind. The 571-page smorgasbord bill “addresses voting rights, corruption, gerrymandering and campaign finance reform,” writes Thomas Edsall in The New York Times, “as well as the creation of a…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: December 19, 2018
“Your time is up, white people,” South African politician Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi offered. This woman, who belongs to the Economic Freedom Fighters, a “far left” political party, is defending something Frédéric Bastiat would have dubbed the very worst kind of “legal plunder”: in this case, a land grab from white farmers…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: August 30, 2012
by Paul Jacob As we await the Republican and Democratic conventions and the subsequent autumn campaign about the future of the country, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are now. So, where are we? One simple but telling measure of a free country is whether a child…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 31, 2019
“No responsible prosecutor,” Alan Dershowitz writes in The Hill, “should ever suggest that the subject of his investigation might indeed be guilty even if there was insufficient evidence or other reasons not to indict.” Don’t I know it. The world-famous lawyer takes issue with the “statement by special counsel Robert…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 9, 2019
Everyone comes into this world with advantages and disadvantages. In the last century, public morality focused on the disadvantaged. Government policy changed dramatically, aiming to help those lacking many obvious advantages. But that focus got fuzzier and fuzzier as the ranks of disadvantaged people remained, even grew larger. Progress was…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: September 18, 2023
Oh, Canada. My wife and I visited our northern neighbor just a week ago, while its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was stuck in India . . . with plane trouble. “Trudeau’s presence at the G20 summit . . . came against a backdrop of tensions between his government and host…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: March 8, 2016
We could call our epoch The Age of Teflon, but “the Teflon President” is what Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) called the 40th Commander in Chief — a long, long time ago. And let us be honest: Reagan had nothing on Bill Clinton in the anti-stickiness department. Nicknamed “Slick Willie,” Clinton…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 4, 2019
The bureaucrats at Missouri’s Ethics Commission lost. By one vote. Last Friday, the commission’s outrageous attempt to force Ron Calzone, an unpaid citizen activist, to file and pay a fee as a lobbyist in order to speak to legislators in the capitol was ruled unconstitutional. After vacating a previous 2-1…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: December 21, 2016
It’s a truism in politics: the pendulum swings. Now, around the world, we see a deep swing rightward: Brexit, and the collapse of Britain’s Labour Party; Donald Trump, and the routing of the Democrats; German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s turnaround on Muslim refugee acceptance; and, in France, the rise of the…