The Iraq War, 20 Years Later
John MuellerOn Thursday, March 16, we reach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Saddam Hussein ’s Iraq under the George W. Bush administration. There will be an afternoon ofpanels on that day at Cato reflecting on the event.As the invasion loomed, there was quite a bit of protest both in the United States and around the globe, and a popular placard at some of the protests was one reading, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot.”In his impressive newbook,Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq (Oxford University Press), historian Melvyn Leffler takes strong exception to that...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 01, 2022 Edition-----This week it is all about weather and climate change with floods, heatwaves and droughts in Parkistan, Europe and China. In the US drought is causing all sorts of food supply issues and price rises.In the EU was a seeing all sorts of energy supply problems.In Australia we have a feast of investigations into ScoMo, RoboDebt and so on. Lots to browse!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-alliance-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-20220818-p5bat8US alliance fear that dare not speak its nameUneasiness about divided, inward-looking America fulfilling its security gua...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
On Free Speech, “Lady of Heaven,” and Sectarianism
Mustafa AkyolIn the past few weeks, some Britons had a sense of déjà vu, reminding them the censorship campaign against Salman Rushdie’s blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses” some thirty‐five years ago. This time, the center of angst was a movie titled, “Lady of Heaven, ” which glorified the story of Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet, in an unmistakably sectarian tone, the movie also demonized some of the most revered figures of Sunni Islam.Hence came protests organized by some Sunni groups, fromBradford to London, in front of movie theaters. There was no violence, but the heated r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
No, the United States Should Not Kowtow to Saudi Arabia to Stick It to Russia
Justin LoganThe war in Ukraine grinds on, and Western observers seem to be growing frustrated with Russia ’s ability to sustain the war. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has recently arrived at a ceasefire, although there are plenty of reasons to worry that it will revert to form. Some authors have begun to weigh tradeoffs in U.S. efforts in both theaters.Fareed Zakariawrites that in order to impose more stringent energy sanctions against Russia, Washington needs to go hat in hand to Saudi Arabia and cut a deal for it to pump more oil:The only plausible path to keep the pressure on Russia while not crip...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs
Congress Should Require TPS for Immigrants from Nations With Armed Conflicts
David J. BierSince 1990, the executive branch has had the authority from Congress to provide Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to people already in the United States who are from countries in which an “ongoing armed conflict within the state" exists. A bipartisan group in Congress wrote a letter to the Biden administration requesting that it designate Ukraine for TPS, and then they also proposed legislation torequire it to use its authority.Finally, the administrationhas relented (with the full details still to be filled in). But Congress should still recognize the procedural problem with giving total discretion to th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 4, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
The War in Afghanistan Has Not Ended If “Over the Horizon” Operations Continue
Jordan CohenSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and said that despite not having U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the difficulty of “over the horizon operations” can be overcome by using intelligence from “a variety of sources. ” These types of operations rely on intelligence and the ability to station U.S. soldiers in partner countries. In return, the U.S. is technically still fighting, though without directly risking American lives. If this continues, it means that the U.S. is not withdrawing from Afghanistan, instead choosing to continue fighting a losi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Connection Is Healthcare
By TOMER BEN-KIKI
The American people can’t afford partisan politics that increase long-term healthcare costs.
When the GOP came to the table with a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal last week, I was pleased to see that they had increased funding for broadband access to $68 billion.
The President wants $100 billion for broadband expansion, but a meaningful increase before the soft deadline of June 7 was a positive step.
Politics aside, the pandemic made it clear how dependent we are on the issue of broadband internet access.after all, broadband underpinned nearly everything that was done to keep the economy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech broadband broadband access Happify Health Telehealth tomer ben-kiki Source Type: blogs
America ’s Foreign Share Is In The Bottom Third Among Richest Nations
David J. BierAmerica ’simmigrant share of its population stagnated under President Trump for multiple years for the first time since the Great Recession—possibly for the first time during an economic boom since the 1960s. This fact should be assessed against a backdrop in which the United States already had one of the most restrictive migration polic ies in the world.New statistics from the United Nations for 2019confirm that the United States ranks in the bottom third among wealthy countries both in terms of foreign ‐born share of its population and per‐capita increase in foreign‐born population. Pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
The coronavirus pandemic is truly like a war
Maybe this sounds dramatic, but the coronavirus is like a war. The soldiers are health care workers. The enemy is the virus. The battlefield is the hospitals. We are finding out that life can turn on a dime. I found that out 30 years ago in August 1990. Iraq invaded Kuwait. I knew as soon […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/susan-shannon" rel="tag" > Susan Shannon, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Reasons to chill and reasons not to chill
Okay, I ' m not an epidemiologist or a virologist. But I do know something about those subjects, I ' m a public health professor, and I am an expert in clinical communication and risk communication. So I ' m going to offer some observations that I hope will help people keep this public health scare in proper perspective and maybe be of practical use.There are two important parameters we need to understand the risk caused by any communicable disease. I ' m going to broadly say transmissibility, and the probability that exposure will lead to serious disease.We often see transmissibility represented as a single number, called...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Repeal Old AUMFs and Salt the Earth
For months now, the Trump administration has pursued a “maximum pressure” campaign that—by accident orby design—has brought the United States to the brink of war with Iran. The branch of government with the constitutional power to declare war ought to havethe final word here. Lately, however, Trump officials have hinted that Congress hasalready had its say —nearly 18 years ago, when it authorized war with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The 2001Authorization for the Use of Military Force, passed three days after the September 11 attacks, targets the perpetrators of 9/11 and those who “harbored” or “aided” ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
Research Byte: Flynn Effect in Kuwait, 1985-1998
This study will be added to the Flynn Effect Archive Project the next time it is update.https://iqmrdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2017/09/flynn-effect-reference-project.htmlClick image to enlarge (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - November 6, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime
Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionAs we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruptio...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture Source Type: blogs
A Feeble Defense of the Jones Act
Rep. Duncan Hunter is not pleased with theCato Institute ’s efforts to repeal the Jones Act. Taking notice of arecent op-ed I penned criticizing the California congressman ’s support of this costly law, Huntertook to the pages of the same newspaper last weekend to defend his stance. It ’s worth reviewing the piece in full, as it recycles several arguments typically offered in support of the Jones Act—and exposes some glaring weaknesses.Hunter begins his defense of the Jones Act by disputing accusations that the law negatively impacts Puerto Rico ’s economy:Like many opponents of the Jones Act, the CATO Institute ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
