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What Obligations Do Mainstream Media Editors (e.g., The Washington Post’s) Have to Bar Their Regular Political Columnists (e.g., Michael Gerson) From Stating Bald Misrepresentations of Fact?

Compare: When people realize that their most personal, sensitive, intimate, private health-care information is in the hands of the IRS that’s been willing to use people’s tax information against political…

Michael Jackson

rdan Reader Jack sends this link to Michael Jackson’s death: This is the best commentary on Michael Jackson that you’re likely to read. That’s only because it’s not written by…

RIP Michael Perelman

RIP Michael Perelman  I have just learned that old friend Michael Perelman has “passed quietly in his sleep” (not reported of what) on September 21, 2020, having been born on…

Healthcare Reform Myths and Countering Facts

…in 2030, assuming we continue in our profligate ways)” Uwe Reinhardt 2008 World Healthcare Conference, http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Healthcare/Maggie%20Agenda.pdf “Getting Better Value from Medicare.” Indeed, of the projected $14 trillion healthcare costs in…

Healthcare in the United States

…wrong; Obamacare slowed, not raised, the rate of healthcare cost growth. But even if Obamacare slowed healthcare cost growth, we still pay a ridiculous amount for healthcare. We pay twice…

Guest Post: Latest from Cato…

Guest post by Michael Halasy Latest from Cato… Kaiser Health News carries an article from Michael Cannon from Cato Institute on the benefits of Ryan’s proposal on Medicare. Cannon is…

Norman Borlaug, Michael Jackson, and the Invisible Hand

…to attribute to government interference. Which means, there are two possible alternatives: 1. Michael Jackson did more positive things for the world than Norman Borlaug. 2. Michael Jackson did less…