These types of things alarm many people. I am not one of them – the incompetence of our betters remains too powerful a theory to toss aside. Turns out, as some NSA formers explain below, the government is amassing everything about all of us…
The definition of insurance is: “A practice by which a company provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment.” Visits to the dentist or doctor for checkups are not something that are included in a risk pool, and as John Stossel notes below, it only pushes the…
DetailsPenn Jillette says it as I wish I could, to the clearly conservo-statist Hannity:
A list I made in 15 minutes gives some solutions to how we would solve the problem of expensive medical care. There are not explanations of each, but I can explain how any would work if there is interest… End the Fed; Cut current income tax of doctors to 0%, nurses to 50%; End Medicare;…
DetailsFr. Barron of WordOnFire comments:
I have been reading more and more of and about J. R. R. Tolkien these days, and it is becoming clear that the man is exactly the role model I want to move toward for the rest of my life. There is little else that needs to be said about the man other than the…
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