A Global Leader in Obsolete Technology
Randal O'TooleSecretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wants to make the United States the “global leader” in high‐speed rail. That’s like wanting to be the world leader in electric typewriters, rotary telephones, or steam locomotives, all technologies that were once revolutionary but are functionally obsolete today. High‐speed trains, in particular, were rendered obsolete in 1958, when B oeing introduced the707 jetliner, which was twice as fast as the fastest trains today.Slower than flying, less convenient than driving, and more expensive than either one.Aside from speed, what makes high ‐spee...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
Biden Tells the State Department to Launch Private Refugee Sponsorship
David J. BierPresident Biden issuedan executive order providing for a number of changes to the U.S. refugee program that President Trump hadgutted during his four years in office. One important change followsa recommendation from Cato ’s compilation of 30 executive actions to restore legal immigration (andmany other times): private refugee sponsorship. The president states:To meet the challenges of restoring and expanding USRAP, the United States must innovate, including by effectively employing technology and capitalizing on community and private sponsorship of refugees, while continuing to partner with resettlement...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
We ’re Ready for Mamala
By DEB GORDON and ROSEMARIE DAY
With the long-awaited inauguration day behind us, America is finally getting something we desperately need: an elected woman in the White House.
On the heels of chaos and violence at the Capitol and after four years of the Trump Administration, we are ready for strong female leadership in the executive branch to help put the country on the right course. In fact, it is long overdue.
Kamala Harris didn’t just need our votes to make history as America’s first female Vice President. To be successful, she’ll need every ounce of our ongoing support as she steels herself to direct th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Deb Gordon feminism rosemarie day Source Type: blogs
Being Wrong about China Then Matters Less Than Being Right about China Now
Daniel J. IkensonEver since the George H.W. Bush administration weighed its diplomatic options in those months of intense policy introspection following Tiananmen Square in 1989, I have supported the deepest possible engagement with China. Throughout the 1990s, along with many others working on trade issues, I participated in the perennial push to persuade Congress to grant China “Normal Trade Relations” status and, ultimately, to secure “Permanent Normal Trade Relations” designation, the last major hurdle to China’s joining the World Trade Organization.Throughout the two decades following China ’s 2001 WTO acc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
President Trump Reduced Legal Immigration. He Did Not Reduce Illegal Immigration
Alex NowrastehPresident Trump entered the White House with the goal of reducing legal immigration by63 percent. Trump was wildly successful in reducing legal immigration. By November 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of green cards issued to people abroad by at least 418,453 and the number of non ‐immigrant visas by at least 11,178,668 during his first term through November 2020. President Trump also entered the White House with the goal of eliminating illegal immigration but Trump oversaw a virtual collapse in interior immigration enforcement and the stabilization of the illegal immig rant population...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
A reminder to try anyways
The highly anticipated A Promised Land was the first book I could not wait to crack open over my two-week break for the winter holidays. Former President Barack Obama explains in his introduction that this work is the first of two autobiographical accounts covering the period from his state legislature run in Illinois through his […]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 - January 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/claire-brown" rel="tag" > Claire Brown < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Alice in Nutcaseland
People have always been subject to elaborate false belief systems, from believing the Oracle at Delphi to the resurrection of Jesus to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It ' s nothing new. All three of the above, have done a lot of harm, along with countless other hoaxes.* But are we in a particularly deranged period of history? The big difference from the past, or at least we thought so up until recently, is that we had the Scientific Revolution and developed rules of evidence, along with the technological means to evaluate reality and the communicative infrastructure to converge on a consensus about what is...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Student Evaluations of Teaching II: Proactive, Active, and Reactive Strategies | TAPP 85
Host Kevin Patton continues the discussion aboutstudent evaluations of teaching (SETs) with a set of strategies tomake them work better, or at least mitigate some of the potentially bad or ugly outcomes. There are things we can doproactively before a SET,actively during a SET, andreactively after a SET.Listen to hear them all!00:00 | Quotation00:57 | Student Evaluation of Teaching: Part II04:16 | Sponsored by AAA05:39 | Proactive Strategies12:49 | Sponsored by HAPI14:03 | Active Strategies29:52 | Sponsored by HAPS31:18 | Reactive Strategies46:15 | Cookies!48:00 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or ac...
Source: The A and P Professor - January 4, 2021 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Interior Immigration Enforcement Has Collapsed Under Trump, Lowest Level Since George W. Bush Administration
Alex NowrastehImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released a report detailing deportations (henceforth “removals”) conducted during fiscal year 2020. This blog post presents data on removals in historical context combined with the estimated number of illegal immigrants. The number of removals in the final year of the Trump administration is the lowest number since 2005 and the rate of removals is the lowest since Congress created ICE in 2003.The DHS report divides removals into two categories based on the arresting agency: those removed from the interior of the United States and those removed from the border. I...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 27, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Outstanding Questions on Personnel in the Transition from Trump to Biden
William Yeatman andChristian TownsendOn January 20th, management of the administrative state will change hands from a Republican to a Democratic president. With this transition in mind, below are three open questions about government personnel.Will EPA Work Only for Progressive Presidents?During President Obama ’s lame duck, the Environmental Protection Agency went into regulatory overdrive. Of particular note, the agency rushed to complete a crucial regulation on fuel efficiency —almost 16 months before the deadline—in an attempt to “cement [Obama ’s] climate change legacy. ” It was a hercu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: William Yeatman, Christian Townsend Source Type: blogs
Greenhouse Gases and the California Waiver Again
Peter Van DorenGeneral Motorsrecently announced that it is terminating its participation in the Trump administration ’s lawsuit to deny California the ability to set more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. As I havediscussed before, CAFE standards, which were originally devised to reduce fuel use during the oil shocks of the 1970s, have been repurposed as climate change (CO2) emissions controls. But the standards are aninefficient method to reduce CO2 emissions.Last year, the Trump administration froze future CAFE standards at 2020 levels and denied California ’s request to set higher fuel ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Addressing The Range of Patient Beliefs About COVID-19
by Lyle Fettig (@FettigLyle)I ’ve been thinking about my role as a physician in responding to skepticism about a range of COVID topics, especially as we approach the holidays and all the tension about difficult recommendations to forgo traditional Thanksgiving dinners. As I think about our current situation, I can’t help but recall an encounter I had with a patient many years ago.In winter 2008 after President Obama was first elected, I saw a woman in clinic who said she was disappointed by the election result. She cited a jaw dropping falsehood about what she thought his election would mean for healthcare, and especia...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 21, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Tags: communication covid fettig Source Type: blogs
Healthcare ’ s Bridge Fire
By KIM BELLARD
We had a bridge fire here in Cincinnati last week. Two semis collided in the overnight hours. The collision ignited a blaze that burned at up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit and took hours to quell. Fortunately, no one was killed or injured, but the bridge remains closed while investigators determine how much damage was done. It is expected to remain closed for at least another month.
Unfortunately, the bridge in question is the Brent Spence Bridge, which is the focal point for I-71 and I-75 between Ohio and Kentucky. It normally carries over 160,000 vehicles daily, a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Biden, Like His Predecessors, Must Not Abuse Power To Appoint “Acting” Officers
Walter OlsonFrom a recent Washington Post report by Matt Viser, Seung Min Kim, and Annie Linskey, it looks as if President ‐Elect Joe Biden is being urged to end‐run the Senate’s advise and consent function in some of the same ways that presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama did before him:A Republican ‐held Senate — or even one with a narrow Democratic majority — probably will affect Biden’s Cabinet picks given the Senate’s power to confirm nominees.One option being discussed is appointing Cabinet members in an acting capacity, a tactic that Trump also used.“Just by virtue of th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
