Ghulf Genes

A rather thoughtful, complete, and sober assessment of the health care issue in the United States is presented on Patio Boat ( link ). If ...

At my birth in 1936 in Hungary the country already had 30 years of experience with a nationalized health care system, founded in 1907. That...

Still reading Toynbee’s monumental work on history, it strikes me—as I see him assessing ancient cultures’ decline and occasionally touchin...

In this world where self-promotion has become Job 1—and the practice has captured ordinary people, so that at times I experience a bullet sp...

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Francis Be...

The second anniversary of the health care act, which is today, started me some days ago looking at data. Today I dug out the global ranking...

CNN presented a show yesterday titled GPS Road Map for Saving Health Care . The GPS there stands for “Global Public Square.” It was a well-...

A picture worth a thousand words. A post on LaMarotte ( here ) today led me to play with graphical depictions. Here is one such image. It ...

Since the dawn of modernity, which Jacques Barzun dates from 1500, we’ve substituted nature for fortune in an effort to deny soul to anyth...

Compromise is certainly one of the virtues of democratic politics, but, it seems to me, it only works when the problem to be decided is what...

One-size-fits-all-big government takeover of health care. John McCain and others. In what way, pray tell, does shoe-size really relate to ...