Men and women are always arguing over who has the tougher role to play. Obviously, it’s the other gender.
Leanne Bell offers an interesting take, called the Good Husband’s Guide. Refreshingly, she takes the men’s side of the argument.
In May of 1955, a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly ran a short point-form article called ”The …
Sheldon Richman on ”Proposers versus Producers.”
”The dynamic leader who gives impassioned speeches and sponsors legislation on behalf of social justice is portrayed as heroic in part because few people can find the logical flaws in the program. As a result, all that counts are presumed motives. But motives divorced from understanding are worthless …
The Safeway grocery store chain created its own health plan for its employees. That’s not unique — many employers do that. Over the past four years, the average U.S. company has seen per-capita health care costs rise by 38%. Over the past four years, Safeway’s per-capita health care costs have remained flat. That’s a tremendous …
Last week I said that ”my health insurance reform plan would involve shifting healthcare spending from large premiums and all-inclusive health ”insurance” plans to small premiums and plans that only offer catastrophic insurance coverage. Patients would have more money left in their pocket, to allow them to pay more money out of pocket”.
Two days ago, …
Health Reform’s Savings Myth, by Arnold Kling:
Anyway, what I was looking for on the web was a link to this article, which says that modern doctors are too beholden to insurance companies, rather than to patients. Nowhere does the the author mention that in 1960 fifty percent of personal health care expenditures …
As you may have heard on the news, Wisconsin experienced some pretty severe flooding last month. Shortly after the rains subsided, I received Congresswoman Baldwin’s monthly e-mail update. She included this quote:
Our entire state Congressional delegation sent a letter to President Bush last Friday asking him to respond quickly to any requests Governor Doyle makes …
Two months ago, I wrote about the sub-prime mortgage ”crisis”. Specifically, I wrote about Mrs. Audrey Sweet and her troubles repaying a loan from Countrywide. Two days ago, Mrs. Sweet stopped by our humble blog to plead her case.
Countrywide forged my loan documents, they lied about the tax amount and my income to …
Even the King is under the law. That’s one of the fundamental ideas behind the British and American system of government. No one in power — not the king, not the president, not the judges — is allowed to break the law.
That idea has a strong corollary: those who enforce the law are also under …
The New York Times published a long story last week on the sub-prime mortgage ”crisis”. Can the Mortgage Crisis Swallow a Town? – New York Times. As I read through it, there were a few points that jumped out at me.
One of those loans belonged to Audrey Sweet, a Maple Heights resident and …