Will it finally be lifted?
It was always an economically idiotic policy.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
If You’re So Rich, Why Aren’t You Smart?
The billionaires are starting to line up behind Hillary.
Of course, it’s not necessarily stupid. There’s no intrinsic reason that plutocrats would give a damn about the country.
The Real War Against Women
..comes from the Left.
And of course, they’re equal opportunity. They’re waging war against men as well. Anyone who doesn’t toe the leftist party line.
National Review
No, it’s not going to go under from this frivolous and meritless lawsuit.
Crowdfunding
Traditional capital flows from nonprofits to investment banking are being disintermediated. People, causes and businesses that need capital have access through the internet, social media and crowdfunding platforms to capital that they simply could not access before. As this trend grows, crowds will demonstrate a different sort of wisdom, sometimes funding causes that foundations wouldn’t or entrepreneurs that VCs wouldn’t.
The JOBS bill was one of the few bi-partisan things that Congress had done recently that will actually help the economy and provide more opportunities for true wealth and job creation.
Low-Carb Diets
…give better cardiovascular outcomes:
Recent randomized controlled trials document that low-carbohydrate diets not only decrease body weight but also improve cardiovascular risk factors. In light of this evidence from randomized controlled trials, dietary guidelines should be re-visited advocating a healthy low carbohydrate dietary pattern as an alternative dietary strategy for the prevention of obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
I’m convinced that the medieval unscientific low-fat nutrition advice killed my father in the seventies.
Employer-Based Health Insurance
Time to make it taxable.
I agree.
Jury Nullification
A bill in New Hampshire that would require judges to notify jurors of it.
Left Versus Right
A review of Yuval Levin’s new book, that shows the origins of the fight that goes back over two centuries. Neither Burke nor Paine were Founders, but their ideas strongly influenced the Founding. Fortunately, Burke’s mostly won out in the drafting of the Constitution, but the modern left continues to try to warp it more a Paine direction.
Prince Charles
More fool than king.