Even Keynesian Accounting Canât Find All That âStimulusâ
By Alan ReynoldsFrom January 2009 to the present, President Obama and his team have repeatedly made grandiose claims about the economic benefits of shoveling money at shovel-ready projects or green...
View ArticleThe Global Burden Of Diseases: Whoâs Healthier On The Planet?
My friend and colleague Bill Heisel, one of our news reviewers, also works at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He wrote to me that this group: “…...
View ArticleâHow do you hide a hundred dollar bill from a neurosurgeon?
Tape it onto their kid. Anonymous (Source: Inside Surgery)
View ArticleNo-Sugar Added Poetry Book
"From words, carefully chosen, purposefully arranged, emerges a shared experience and mutual understanding" - Lee Ann Thill, in the introduction of No-Sugar Added Poetry. I received a copy of No-Sugar...
View ArticleMissourians Donât Like Mandate
By David BoazAs Roger Pilon mentioned, yesterday’s Politico question was “Is Health Care Repeal Gaining Steam?” A timely question in light of Monday’s court decision allowing a lawsuit against the...
View ArticleâHow do you hide a dollar bill from an internist?â
Put it under the patient’s bandage. Anonymous (Source: Inside Surgery)
View ArticleDear Bill: Why the Distinction Between College and K-12?
By Andrew J. CoulsonAt the Techonomy conference last week, Bill Gates declared that going to school would soon be obsolete, and that ”five years from now, on the web, for free, youâll be able to...
View ArticleWhat Do Prince and H.R. 1586 Have in Common?
By Jim HarperGive up? Both have adopted highly unconventional names in their lifetimes. In Prince’s case, it was the adoption of a symbol to protest Warner Brothers’ artistic and financial control of...
View ArticleJennifer Aniston Is Empowering Women, Destroying America
This is the face that is ruining America. photo: WENN.com Jennifer Aniston’s been busy promoting her new movie, The Switch, about a single woman using a sperm donor to have a child. Aniston said,...
View ArticleFood Stamps Cut?
Prior to last weekâs passage of another $26 billion in bailout money for state and local governments, I noted that the legislation wasnât really offset: Congressional Democrats say the measure is...
View ArticleBill Watterson on Bad Moods
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around. â Bill Watterson Post from: BlissTree Bill Watterson on Bad Moods (Source: Healthbolt)
View ArticleThe J&J Recall Watch: Now, Itâs Contact Lenses
Usually, this site contents itself with issues pertaining to medicines, but given the unusual string of difficulties that Johnson & Johnson is having with quality control, we thought we would note...
View ArticlePharma social marketing and the data its provides
Bill Harriss of the Sigma Marketing Group commented on the winning uphill climb of social media marketing regulations and the FDA. He believes that Pharma is winning the battle, but in addition, the...
View ArticleAssessment: Ingenix Makes HIE Move Acquiring Axolotl
Last week, Ingenix announced that it would be acquiring Axolotl. Probably no one was happier than the folks at Gilat Satellite Networks who had invested $4.5M in Axolotl over ten years ago, had written...
View Article5 Reasons Jennifer Aniston Is Bad for Society, From Lemondrop's Nick Hadel
photo: Getty Images A certain gentleman and I have a habit of arguing over actresses that we do and don’t like: I don’t mind Julia Roberts, but he thinks she’s a horrid actress. I’m no fan of Brooklyn...
View ArticleTime for a Diplomatic Presence in Pyongyang
Jimmy Carter is off in North Korea again. Heâs supposed to bring home 31-year-old Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a Boston resident who was arrested in January for illegally crossing into the Democratic...
View ArticlePDK: Charter Schools Finally As Popular as Education Tax Credits Have Been...
By Adam SchaefferThe new PDK/Gallup education poll for 2010 is out, with the standard problems we can expect from this pro-government school/anti-choice outfit. Randi Weingarten even gets some column...
View ArticleThe Quote Of The Week: J&J CEO Should Resign
Okay, it is only Monday, so maybe another comment will come along. But how’s this for being direct? In a remark given to the Associated Press, which spoke briefly with Johnson & Johnson ceo Bill...
View ArticleDid Layoffs Help Hassan And Weldon Prosper?
Eliminating jobs is never easy, but some CEOs suffer less than others when it comes time to living with the consequences. For instance, did you know that the CEOs of the 50 companies that trimmed the...
View ArticleNew DNA PCR Test For Tuberculosis Shows Great Promise For Speedy Diagnosis...
A new testing method to determine if a patient is infected with tuberculosis has been developed by a consortium of research institutions with funding coming from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation....
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