Washington’s Inflated Sense of Security Leadership
Ted Galen Carpenter
With the Ukrainian crisis continuing to simmer, criticism of the Obama administration’s response is growing. One common refrain is that the administration has squandered its leadership role, not only in Europe, but globally. Calls are mounting for the United States to inspire and cajole its NATO allies to support a hard-line policy toward Russia. Representative Peter King (R-NY), speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, stated that Washington needs to make clear not only that “there will be firm sanctions,” but we “have to make sure the allies are working together.”
Such calls reflect wishful thin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 11, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
The 2013 Geoffrey Beene Global Neurodiscovery Challenge
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, in association with the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer’s Initiative, announce preliminary winner, finalist for the awards, and open voting to the public.
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
Online Voting begins on November 1
and ends of November 5
From November 1 – 5, 2013 the public will have the opportunity to vote for the grand prize winning entry. Click the image above for details.
The grand prize winner will receive an additional $50,000 award to continue research specifically in the area of male/female differences in Alzheimer’s disease.
Subscrib...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 29, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Larry Summers Redefines Balanced Budgets as Stimulus and Big Deficits as Austerity
Alan Reynolds
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, in June 4 testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, offers a scatter diagram which allegedly shows “that countries that pursued harsher austerity policies in recent years also had lower real GDP growth.” He acknowledges, but does not adequately explain, that the causality may well be backwards: Bond markets would not allow countries in severe economic distress (Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain) to continue financing deficits at the peak levels of 2010.
Summers defines “austerity” as the three-year change (regardless of the level) from 2010 to 201...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
First They Came for My Coke, Then They Came for My Jack
Ilya Shapiro
Not satisfied with hounding smokers and purveyors of Big Gulp sodas – or even gun manufacturers – nanny-staters have reached way back into their historical toolkits to go after alcohol. That’s right, in this the 90th year since the repeal of Prohibition, a new coalition has arisen to take on the scourge of demon rum.
But these aren’t your great-granddaddy’s Baptists and bootleggers; instead we have a transnational alliance of “public health professionals” out to make the world a more sober place. Not satisfied with the persuasiveness of their entreaties, however, ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Krugtron the Invincible...or Krugman the Inadvertent Opponent of Tax Increases?
Daniel J. Mitchell
President Bush imposed a so-called stimulus plan in 2008 and President Obama imposed an even bigger “stimulus” in 2009. Based upon the economy’s performance over the past five-plus years, those plans didn’t work.
Japan has spent the past 20-plus years imposing one Keynesian scheme after another, and the net effect is economic stagnation and record debt.
Going back further in time, Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt dramatically increased the burden of government spending, mostly financed with borrowing, and a recession became a Great Depression.
That’s not exactly a successful track r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Experiencing the familiar in new ways
In the spirit of this weekend’s workshop It’s Not What You Think in Copenhagen, I am posting a few observations from my visit to the Medical Museion last April.
The trip originated from a discussion about a contemporary museum for the blind in Kaunus, Lithuania and what we (the sighted) could learn from an institution that devoted all its energies towards such a radical shift in visitor experience. One of the high-lights of my April visit, therefore, was a tour by Jan Eric Olsén and Emma Peterson to the former Danish Museum of Blind History.
The blind collection was once part of a historic teaching and therap...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 7, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Pantalony Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine collections Experiences of Ageing university museums Source Type: blogs
17 Examples of Admitted Vaccine Failure
Conclusion
As you can see from the above examples, vaccines fail and do so often. Trust me, there are many more examples I didn’t cover here.
Here’s a tip for you if you want to look for more information. Open your browser right now. Go to Google.com and do a search for the terms “previously immunized for (x)” or “breakthrough (x) in school.” X, of course, represents a “vaccine preventable” disease such as pertussis, measles, varicella, etc., – you get the point.
As a parent, you trust doctors to provide you with accurate information. When doctors say vaccines work and they are effective, from whom are th...
Source: vactruth.com - February 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Measles Vaccine mumps vaccine Pertussis Vaccine Vaccine Failure Vaccine Safety vaccine schedule Source Type: blogs
Olga's Soulmate
Daniel J. Mitchell
The welfare state creates some amazing individuals:
We’ve had the spectacle of “Diaper Man” and “Footless Hans.”
We have the “Florida Pedophiles” and the “Gimme Babymaker.”
And we have the “Connecticut Kid” and the “English Loafer.”
But I’ve never found a match for Olga, a Greek woman who thinks it is government’s job to take care of her from cradle to grave.
At least not until now. I’m excited to announce that Olga has a soulmate named Natalija. She’s from Lithuania, but she now lives in England, and she doubtlessly will inspire Olga on how to live off...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
