The New York Times reports that President Clinton may have lied about her health during the campaign when she claimed that she only takes an aspirin and a single prescription drug. Her doctor revealed today that she has been taking…
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Bad stories lead to bad healthcare policies
US Representive Phil Roe is considered an expert on healthcare by his peers. He co-chairs the Republican Doctors Caucus and the Republican Study Committee asked him to come up with a plan to replace Obamacare. In a recent interview about his…
Posted in Health
The Democratic Party is out of control!
In an unexpected by turn of events, Hillary Clinton assumed the American presidency last week due to a narrow election win that surprised pollsters and most experts. There were mass protests by conservatives during the inaugural weekend as they feared…
Posted in Public Finance
NAFTA not a big deal overall, but huge for a few Americans.
Kevin Drum wrote that NAFTA isn’t a big deal and produced a graph similar to the one below except that he used an inflated measure of trade: gross imports plus exports. Net exports (NX) is a better measure of the…
Posted in Globalization & International
Mass-shooter drills train students to become future mass shooters.
mass shootings in schools are a form of epidemic and if the bug can be caught from exposure to press reports about mass shooters it can probably be caught from participation in mass shooter drills too.
Posted in Violence & Peace
We Pencils
Introduction: This essay is guest authored by a group of pencils. Yes, we are a bunch of ordinary writing instruments. Even though any one of us is very dumb, even a group of idiots can produce something much greater than the…
Mmutilitarianism: The accidental ethical foundation of economics and business.
Everyone has some sort of moral philosophy whether they realize it or not. The three major schools of ethics are deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. Deontology is an ethical system based on legalistic rules that impose a duty on everyone’s…
Posted in Medianism, Public Finance
Medianism 