Oct
26
Ignoring Milton Friedman
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Crossposted from Doug Ross Journals:
In 2001, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Milton Friedman penned “How to Cure Health Care“. Given the United States’ budget deficits, its current economic malaise and an impending entitlement catastrophe, one would hope that Congress would strongly consider Friedman’s insights for its health care agenda.
Of course, with the current crop of [...]
Oct
23
By Vargas4Congress
The President said that his decision on Afghanistan could take weeks. Mark Vargas, candidate for the 14th District Congressional seat, recently asked the President to make the decision based facts and the observations of commanders on the ground, not politics. Instead of bending to the whims of special interest groups, the President needs [...]
Oct
21
Who would have thought that .0038% of the atmoshere could destroy the middle class?
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Crossposted from National Review:
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international [...]
Oct
19
Crossposted from Publius Forums:
by Warner Todd Huston
Not long ago, Pam Geller told the story of an ACORN office in Florida that had destroyed all the Republican voter registration forms it had gotten during a 2008 voter registration drive.
Geller had a first-hand account of this crime from one Fathiyyah Muhammad, an Obama voter that is a [...]
Oct
16
GOOD NEWS from ISBE! 62% of Illinois 4th Graders Can’t Do Long Division
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by Dan Proft
Good news emerged yesterday from a new national report: our education system may have scraped bottom. Only 38% of Illinois fourth graders tested proficient in math last year, one percentage point below the national average, and virtually unchanged from last year. Parents might think that the failure of 62% of children to demonstrate grade-level proficiency [...]
Oct
12
by Jerry Agar
“What has the world come to that Illinois can’t fix an election?” That was Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ reaction to the news that the 2016 Olympics would not be coming to Chicago. The man has a sense of humor.
More importantly, he has a sense that government cannot and should not solve all of [...]
Oct
12
Recently a Physician acquaintance of my submitted this letter to his local newspaper:
Having been a physician who has worked 20 years in government run county hospitals, veterans hospitals, and private hospitals there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that further government interdiction into healthcare will only lead to more waste, fraud, debt, and weakening [...]
Oct
7
On the 8th Anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion, Mark Vargas urges the President to listen to his commanders on the ground.
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On the 8th Anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion, Mark Vargas urges the President to listen to his commanders on the ground.
As of October 4th, 2009 1,381 coalition members have been killed in Afghanistan. Mark Vargas, former Defense Department official and candidate in the 14th Congressional district asks President Obama not make life and death decisions [...]
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