A Health-Care Plan Worse Than Obamacare
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 18th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
A Health-Care Plan Worse Than Obamacare
What If Republicans Win?
James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
Jeb Hensarling may be the most important Republican elected official you’ve never heard of. He will become even more important if his party wins control of the U.S. Senate in November’s elections, two weeks from this Tuesday. He’s also a leading candidate to eventually succeed John Boehner as House speaker.
Kentucky Showcases the Worst of Politics
Michael Cohen, Boston Globe
ON MONDAY my confidence in representative democracy as an effective form of governance momentarily wavered. The reason: I watched the Kentucky Senate debate between minority leader Mitch McConnell and his Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes — a depressing tete-a-tete between one candidate afraid to say anything and another seemingly incapable of being honest with his constituents.
How the Feds Block Ebola Cures
Robert Goldberg, New York Post
We have technology to potentially control Ebola and other viral outbreaks today. But the federal bureaucracy refuses to catch up with 21st-century science.For example, diagnostic startup Nanobiosym has an iPhone-sized device that can accurately detect Ebola and other infectious diseases in less than an hour.
Lower Oil Prices Are Unambiguously Good
Larry Kudlow, IBD
Steep stock market corrections often create shrouds of pessimism that do bad things to people’s brainpower. And one of the absolutely stupidest things I have heard in recent weeks is that the recent drop in oil prices is bad. You heard me right. Serious people on financial television are saying lower oil prices are a signal of worldwide economic collapse. Here at home that translates to recession, deflation, a profits collapse and rising unemployment.I’ve been around for a while, and I’ve seldom heard such gibberish.The latest stock market scare stems from a bunch of fears — such as the…
