Is the elimination of fossil fuel a central planner's application of "The Broken Window Theory?"--Tess Roark
Chris was at Pamala's when there was a medical emergency with an ambulance.
We were astounded at the Steeler trade/draft last night. We were yelling in disbelief.
Sri Lanka. Why is there no word for the Christian equivalent of Islamophobia or anti-Semitic?
Accountable Care Organizations are emerging in medicine to move medicine "from volume to value." There is a sociologist's wonder about these guys; they are astounded by the obvious. But the most successful of these "ACOs" have a very low savings rate--often by switching patients from inpatient to outpatient surgery. These are mainly shifts in comfort and convenience. Behind all this is the conflict in fee-for-service, a concept that promises price competition but assumes a free market. And a free market assumes shortages, a state that politicians will not allow in medical care. So, doesn't that mean the fee-for-service model is inherently contradictory and is thus doomed?
In a meeting last week at Middlebury College, administrators apologized to students who were upset that a conservative speaker had been invited to campus — and pledged to do more to prevent right-wing speakers in the future.
The Green New Deal electricity mandate would create significant environmental damage and massive land use of over 115 million acres, (about 180,000 square miles), about 15 percent larger than the land area of California. Because of the need for conventional backup generation to avoid blackouts one ironic effect would be GHG emissions from natural gas–fired backup generation 22 percent higher than those resulting in 2017 from all natural gas–fired power generation. And those backup emissions would be over 35 percent of the emissions from all power generation in 2017.
Although many factors contributed to its [Great Britain’s] decline as an economic power in the 20th century, surely part of the blame goes to workers and owners who hid their desire for protection behind demands for retaliation. The U.S. should learn from Britain’s experience and reject the seductive calls for a level playing field and fair trade. The gain to American consumers and to the efficiency of the U.S. economy are reasons enough for following an open-trade policy – even when other countries do not. --The Beckers
The “right to your culture” is literally totalitarian, because you can’t ensure the preservation of your culture without totalitarian rule over the very fabric of life in your society.--Caplan.
I do not get this argument. Culture is simply an agreement on certain things in life and a continuity of those things over time. Such devotion can fall anywhere on the curve of behavior: The Orthodox Serbs have a productive and in many respects profound culture that, at times, finds it necessary to murder everyone who is not, the Amish do fine by themselves. Unless you think "shunning" is totalitarian. And they might at Middlebury.
Discontent
Chris was at Pamala's when there was a medical emergency with an ambulance.
We were astounded at the Steeler trade/draft last night. We were yelling in disbelief.
Sri Lanka. Why is there no word for the Christian equivalent of Islamophobia or anti-Semitic?
Accountable Care Organizations are emerging in medicine to move medicine "from volume to value." There is a sociologist's wonder about these guys; they are astounded by the obvious. But the most successful of these "ACOs" have a very low savings rate--often by switching patients from inpatient to outpatient surgery. These are mainly shifts in comfort and convenience. Behind all this is the conflict in fee-for-service, a concept that promises price competition but assumes a free market. And a free market assumes shortages, a state that politicians will not allow in medical care. So, doesn't that mean the fee-for-service model is inherently contradictory and is thus doomed?
In a meeting last week at Middlebury College, administrators apologized to students who were upset that a conservative speaker had been invited to campus — and pledged to do more to prevent right-wing speakers in the future.
The Green New Deal electricity mandate would create significant environmental damage and massive land use of over 115 million acres, (about 180,000 square miles), about 15 percent larger than the land area of California. Because of the need for conventional backup generation to avoid blackouts one ironic effect would be GHG emissions from natural gas–fired backup generation 22 percent higher than those resulting in 2017 from all natural gas–fired power generation. And those backup emissions would be over 35 percent of the emissions from all power generation in 2017.
Although many factors contributed to its [Great Britain’s] decline as an economic power in the 20th century, surely part of the blame goes to workers and owners who hid their desire for protection behind demands for retaliation. The U.S. should learn from Britain’s experience and reject the seductive calls for a level playing field and fair trade. The gain to American consumers and to the efficiency of the U.S. economy are reasons enough for following an open-trade policy – even when other countries do not. --The Beckers
The “right to your culture” is literally totalitarian, because you can’t ensure the preservation of your culture without totalitarian rule over the very fabric of life in your society.--Caplan.
I do not get this argument. Culture is simply an agreement on certain things in life and a continuity of those things over time. Such devotion can fall anywhere on the curve of behavior: The Orthodox Serbs have a productive and in many respects profound culture that, at times, finds it necessary to murder everyone who is not, the Amish do fine by themselves. Unless you think "shunning" is totalitarian. And they might at Middlebury.
Discontent
Reasonable little opinion piece from MBA student Alyssa Ahlgren writing for Alpha News:
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.….Let me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world’s GDP. The list goes on.However, these universal truths don’t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity, some of the poorest countries in the world have low-income inequality), we are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it’s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has ONLY seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
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