Government Proposes To Make Bad Standards on Race and Ethnicity Worse
John F. EarlyI recently laid out the case to stop government classification of people by race and ethnicity in a CatoBlog post. Those observations were stimulated by The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posting a notice for comment in the Federal Register with respect to a report from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group and Race and Ethnicity Standards to revise the existing standards for collecting data by race and ethnicity. Comments are due by April 27, 2023.Ipublished a similar op ‐ed in the Wall Street Journal, which subsequently printed a singleletter to the editor in re...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John F. Early Source Type: blogs
Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane
Timothy SandefurIt was on this day in 1886 that the journalist and authorRose Wilder Lane was born in a little house on the prairie that she and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, would later make famous. A brilliant, moody, and independent spirit, Rose was eventually to become one of the most important voices of American liberty, and in 1943, publishedThe Discovery of Freedom, a pathbreaking book that helped spark the revival of interest in free markets and individualism in the later 20th century.Ironic, then, that she started out as a socialist.Lane grew up hating the life on the farm, and decided at an early age t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Timothy Sandefur Source Type: blogs
Summit Gives Biden Chance to Nudge Post-Soviet States Toward Democracy
President Biden is likely to invite the thriving Baltic countries to his “ summit for democracy ” in December. But he might also invite four mid-tier post-Soviet states: Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine — imperfect democracies all. By both praising and nudging this latter set, Biden could give his agenda more meaning. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 20, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: William Courtney; Kenneth Yalowitz Source Type: blogs
Russia Tries to Restore Stability in the Caucasus
Ted Galen CarpenterThe announcement ofan agreement to end the recent bloody strife between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the status of Nagorno ‐Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, should be greeted with cautious relief.Caution is warranted, since three previous cease fires that Russia brokered failed to endure.This time, though, Moscow ’s diplomatic efforts seem more insistent and effective.The new trilateral accord goes far beyond a mere cease fire and provides for revised political arrangements that reduce Nagorno-Karabakh ’s de facto autonomy.Moreover, another provisionauthorizes enforce...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
NATO ’s Rogue Member Meddles in Another Conflict
Ted Galen CarpenterThis week,armed clashes erupted between the forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan, exacerbating already serious tensions in the Caucasus.The underlying reason for the latest incident is the long ‐standing struggle between the two countries for control of Ngorno‐Karabakh.That ethnically Armenian region is legally part of Azerbaijan, but Armenia assumes responsibility forguaranteeing the minority enclave ’s self‐declared political independence. The inherently unstable arrangement has led to several previous outbreaks of violence over the past three decades, but the latest incident seems especia...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: More interior design
I ' ve done a little bit of reading to see if people have thoughts about why a book that presents some of its key events in a few verses goes onad nauseumabout the precise details of the tabernacle. (And soon to come the priestly vestments and various ritual requirements.) Well, for one thing, the text existed; it was available. Somebody saw this thing at some point and described it. Obviously it wasn ' t in the historical context described here, which fictitious, but the details get projected back to this time of lawgiving.And it was important in a way that the story of Cain and Abel and other events that get much shorter...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 20, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Can the United States Support Democracies in the Former USSR?
The West has only modest capacity to influence circumstances in most post-Soviet countries. In Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova, however, the West has the potential to make a real difference by supporting civil society and improved governance. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Kenneth Yalowitz; William Courtney Source Type: blogs
New Research on Immigration, Terrorism, and Ideology
Yesterday, Cato released my latest policy analysis entitled “Terrorists by Immigration Status and Nationality: A Risk Analysis, 1975-2017. ” Much of it is an update and expansion of my originalpolicy analysis on this topic from 2016. I added two more years of data, estimates of the number of people injured, and a handful of non-deadly foreign-born terrorists whom I had failed to include in my original paper. The annual risk of being murdered in an attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist by visa category is very similar to my original study as there were only a handful of victims from attacks perpetrated by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
3 Unexpected Things That Happened When I Fully Focused On My Strengths
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You have all probably been to that dark place where the only thing you see is a failure and the only thing you hear is the ticking of negative thoughts in your brain.
This is certainly a ‘place-to-be’ as our brain cannot function without negative thoughts. But one feels even more vulnerable when this dark place happens in a new country they have just moved to.
That is exactly what ha...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AnatoliC Tags: confidence featured self improvement success motivation pickthebrain strengths Source Type: blogs
Democratic Bright Spots in the South Caucasus
Democratic bright spots are emerging in Armenia and Georgia despite their being wedged between less-than-democratic regional powers. Both countries seek to consolidate democratic gains and overcome poverty while managing daunting challenges from Russia and separatist conflicts. While pursuing these priorities, the countries deserve continued, strong Western support. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 23, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Denis Corboy; William Courtney; Kenneth Yalowitz Source Type: blogs
Eech (Armenian bulgur)
I saw this dish being made on a TV cooking show. It looked delicious, so I decided to make the grain-free equivalent.
It goes by the odd name “eech,” an Armenian dish made with onions, garlic, tomatoes. parsley, bell pepper, olive oil, lemon . . . and bulgur wheat.
Everyone here, of course, objects to the inclusion of any seed of a grass plant in their lifestyle to avoid becoming diabetic, overweight, and having to massage your painful joints with rheumatoid arthritis or applying topical steroid creams for skin rashes. I therefore replaced the granular bulgur wheat with riced cauliflower. I believe it turned ou...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Source Type: blogs
Fight burnout: Practice medicine with purpose
I remember climbing into my mother’s office chair and pretending to be the doctor. I was six years old then, wearing her oversized white coat with its sleeves hanging over my small hands. She was a practicing physician in a time period that no longer exists — communist Armenia. This was a time when physicians made about the same salary as factory workers — a time when university education and health care were free of charge. Nevertheless, I never once heard my mother complain about how little money she made or how difficult her job was. This was the time of house calls when after a busy morning of seeing patients in ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 7, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/kristine-tatosyan-jones" rel="tag" > Kristine Tatosyan-Jones, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Angle Shades – Phlogophora meticulosa
I think the name of this moth, Angle Shades, would make a great name for a progressive rock band, their first album would, of course, be “Phlogophora meticulosa”. The species gets its common name from its characteristic forewing markings. The base colour is buff, brown towards the edge of the wing most distant from the body, the termen.
Angle Shades is marked with a bold V-shaped pink and green marking. Overall, the colouration and angular markings create a disruptive camouflage. To my eye seeing this moth for the first time in the trap on the morning of 2018-08-06 it looked very much like a small autumnal ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 7, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Celebrating the Commonwealth Fund: An Interview with a Public Health Leader in the U.S. and Abroad
A 1971 Commonwealth Fund fellowship brought Haroutune Armenian, M.D., Dr.P.H., now at the University of California, Los Angeles, from the American University in Beirut (AUB) to the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore. We interviewed him about his fascinating and long career in academia and government in the U.S., Lebanon, and Armenia, among other countries.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 20, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: blogs
