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Freedom vs. Four Freedoms

…into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear,…

The Only Good Crowding-Out Argument

I was pontificating earlier today about how many of the now-unemployed Financial Services workers were, in a previous life, engineers of one stripe or another, and if we’re going to…

Bonaventura Anselm and Kaus

…then Pegasus would be a winged horse.” A simpler rule, which works just as well, is to require all definitions to be of that form so we can define “Life”…

Carbon cap and trade, good idea? Bad Idea?

…“we will impose a fee” on the foreign company “to equalize the price.” Protectionism-masquerading-as-environmentalism will thicken the unsavory entanglement of commercial life and political life. Regarding McCain’s “central facts,” the…

Singapore and healthcare

…affordable.” Each of the networks also benchmarks against international standards and publishes exhaustive performance figures. In its 2007 report, NHG says its vision is “adding years of healthy life.” The…

Did Part D Work?

…will respond to me, and I may not know if they can provide the other policies I need (home, life, etc.), so there may be minor externalities (e.g., having to…

You, Me and China make Three, part II

…that caught my attention. As much as I am interested in China’s life influencing ours, I am more interested in understanding what happened to us. I presented his concept of…

More thought on China and Hutton

…obvious. Obvious to the leadership as well as to many of the more enlightened subjects of this regime. This brings life in China a certain tension that most of us…