Measures to Capture Illegal Aliens Snare Citizens
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This is absolutely wrong and is a very good example of why the current hysteria over illegal immigration is a bad thing. We are a nation of immigrants. We shouldn’t be so paranoid about immigrants that we’re willing to treat citizens like crooks.
Despite Its New Diet, Virginia State Government Is Fatter Than Ever
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A. Barton Hinkle examines the Virginia state budget and determines that increased Medicaid spending is the big reason that the state government has had to cut the budget in recent years.
Medicaid Takes Up More of State Budgets, Analysis Finds
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Maybe it’s time to consider reforming Medicare? Before it eats up state budgets completely? And maybe we could do it without demonizing the one party that’s willing to talk about it? (Hello, Congressman Paul Ryan.)
New York Bans Mandatory-Mail-Order Pharmacy Plans
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Some health plans require you to fill your prescriptions through mail order pharmacies. Some patients don’t like that requirement. In New York State, that requirement will soon be a thing of the past.
Complex Systems, Part II
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Most people in health policy do not understand complex systems. They really don’t understand social science models either. As a result, when they advocate or enact public policies, they are almost always oblivious to the inevitability of unintended consequences. The idea that a policy based on good intentions could actually make things worse is beyond their comprehension.
How It Ought To Be Done
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Radley Balko points out how the Occupy encampments should have been taken down.
All of the cops who weren’t busy transporting and processing the voluntary arrestees lined up, blocking the stairs down into the plaza. They stood shoulder to shoulder. They kept calm and silent. They positioned the weapons on their belts out of …
Debit-Card Law Has Nasty Side Effect
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People are not just pieces to be moved around a chess board by wise overseers. They make their own decisions and you can’t predict what the ultimate effect of regulations will be.
Methanol Wins?
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Dr. Robert Zubrin bangs a drum he’s beaten before.
The Open Fuel Standard bill (H.R. 1687) would remedy this situation by requiring automakers to activate the flex-fuel capabilities of their vehicles. This would open the market to fuels producible from plentiful domestic resources not under cartel control, free us from looting by OPEC, create millions of …
WPRI Report: Rebuilding and Modernizing Wisconsin’s Interstates with Toll Financing
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This is the real work of “rebuilding America’s crumbling roads”. And the money involved is going to require everyone to pitch in, especially the people who use Wisconsin’s roads the most.
All highways wear out over time, despite ongoing maintenance. Over the next 30 years, most of Wisconsin’s Interstate system will exceed its nominal …
At what point does the need for security eclipse human dignity and compassion?
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Yesterday I went through the imaging scanner at JFK Terminal 4 for my Virgin America flight to San Francisco. Evidently they found something, because after the scan, I was asked to step aside to have my breast area examined. I explained to the agent that I was a breast cancer patient and had a …