The Washington Post has an interesting article on the derivation of health care plans that I was not aware of. Instead of engaging in a debate on the merits of her proposal, the Republican candidates eagerly rushed to attack it as rampaging big government. It is one more example of why campaigns have left so […]
The New England Journal of Medicine printed an article worth reading about possible impacts of childhood obesity. I like the attitude. Here is the last part: Certainly, we have much to learn about the regulation of body weight. Low-fat diets have yielded disappointing results, and very-low-carbohydrate diets appear to be more effective only in the […]
Illegal means criminal, and alien feels spooky. Are spooky alien criminals invading the country? And the The American Immigration Law Foundation tells us the likely reason why not: The problem of crime in the United States is not ’caused’ or even aggravated by immigrants, regardless of their legal status. This is hardly surprising since immigrants […]
About 1.4 million troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon research indicates that: Up to 28% of combat troops may have been exposed to bomb blasts and suffered at least mild traumatic brain injury. 30% of Iraq and Afghanistan casualties treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center have been diagnosed with mild, moderate or […]
Salon reports: In April 2007, William Winkenwerder Jr. retired from his position as assistant secretary for health affairs at the Department of Defense, where he had been in charge of all military healthcare. On June 1, he went to work for a Wisconsin-based private contractor named Logistics Health Inc., which hired him to serve on […]
WSJ reports on the news conference and new National Intelligence Estimate. The new assessment concludes that Iran actually suspended its covert nuclear weapon program in the fall of 2003. That tends to undercut Bush’s recent warnings about the danger of “World War III” if Iran’s nuclear ambitions are realized. At least the first half-dozen questions […]
A few commenters of my last post suggested that picking at the tax code can create big problems if you don’t know what you’re talking about. I agree. Why mess with what is working as evident in the data continuously collected and reported concerning the economy. But, in 1981 they did mess with it and […]
PBS has a very short description of the effects of PTSD and TBI by several authors that might help in sorting out why the diagnosis is important both for policy, treatment, and moral judgements we as Americans are prone to use to avoid costs of war. As you stand with other parents watching the kids […]
Tomorrow, December 5, the Center for Constitutional Rights will return to the Supreme Court for the most important case of this decade. This historic case – Al Odah v. United States – will in all likelihood determine once and for all whether the men detained at Guantánamo have the right to a fair trial before […]
Tyler Cowen has an interesting article on the weak dollar in the Times today that is also discussed at economistsview. Just so everyone would have a good view of imports market share I though I would publish this chart. Discussion on the dollar often center on the impact of a weak dollar on imports. But […]