Is Defending Tax Competition Akin to "Trading with the Enemy"?
When I was younger, my left-wing friends said conservatives unfairly attacked them for being unpatriotic and anti-American simply because they disagreed on how to deal with the Soviet Union.
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Last decade, a Treasury Department official accused me of being disloyal to America because I defended the fiscal sovereignty of low-tax jurisdictions.
And just today, in a story in the Washington Post about the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (I’m Chairman of the Center’s Board of Directors), former Senator Carl Levin has accused me and others of “trading with the enemy” because of our work...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Coral Bleaching Is Not a Tell-Tale Sign of Imminent Extinction
Climate alarmists seem to be working overtime these days to persuade the public to support legislation to combat dangerous climate change, which they claim will occur unless CO2 emissions are drastically reduced. And after nearly two decades of over-predicting global warming (there has been little to no global warming since the late 1990s), they are getting awfully desperate in their attempts to convince the public that there is an imminent climate catastrophe on the horizon.
The rhetoric-of-choice is good old-fashioned fear mongering. The latest example is a New York Times article by Michelle Innis entitled “Climate-Rel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Craig D. Idso Source Type: blogs
Trade and the Panama Papers
When there is a trade negotiation going on, people often try to bring various other policies into the mix. One way they do this is to argue that if another country wants to trade with the U.S., they should have to change some of the policies we don’t like. One recent example comes from the so-called Panama Papers. This is from the Washington Post:
The Panama Papers’ detailed revelations of a massive international tax-haven scheme have snowballed this week into a fierce debate among Democrats over President Obama’s trade policies with the tiny Central American nation and again laid bare sharp divisions within the pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 12, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs
Put Me In Coach: Wearables in Professional Sports
The following post first ran on Venture Valkyrie on April 10.
Old School Song by John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival: Put me in coach, I’m ready to play…
New School Response by Warriors Coach Steve Kerr: Well, you’re biometric readings tell me you need a rest….
So if you’re me, and lots of other people I know, this is the best time of the year – a virtual harmonic convergence of orgiastic sports joy. I can watch back-to-back baseball and basketball and, since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I get to root for some pretty great home teams: Go Giants! Go Warriors! If you need me, just look for the r...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Technology Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: " Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even " beating " the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one i...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
Progress against cancer? Let's think about it.
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper these days without reading an article proclaiming progress in the field of cancer research. Here is an example, taken from an article posted on the MedicineNet site (1). The lead-off text is: "Statistics (released in 1997) show that cancer patients are living longer and even "beating" the disease. Information released at an AMA sponsored conference for science writers, showed that the death rate from the dreaded disease has decreased by three percent in the last few years. In the 1940s only one patient in four survived on the average. By the 1960s, that figure was up to one in th...
Source: Specified Life - March 25, 2016 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer cure cancer statistics cancer treatments orphan diseases progress in cancer research rare diseases Source Type: blogs
“Bryar Humphreys, left, and Preston Derby worked out at an...
"Bryar Humphreys, left, and Preston Derby worked out at an otherwise empty beach in #PanamaCityBeach, Florida. The photographer @hlswift visited the small, conservative town to capture the #springbreak scene. This year, there wasn't much to see. The scarcity of the party-hard population was no accident. Last year, after a particularly rowdy spring break — one that included an alleged sexual assault on a crowded beach in broad daylight and gunfire at a house party that injured 7 partygoers — local officials clamped down. The town passed more than 20 ordinances to curb the debauchery, drinking and violence. In response, ...
Source: Kidney Notes - March 21, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Could Dangerous Mandatory Vaccines Containing Aluminum Salts be Responsible for Microcephaly in Brazil?
Conclusion
There is mounting evidence to suggest that vaccinations and medications containing aluminum salts are harmful to brain development. We need to ask ourselves why a vaccination known to contain well above the recommended levels of aluminum has been passed as safe for use in pregnancy by the Brazilian Health Ministry.
For more information on the dangers of aluminum, I recommend parents read the growing number of articles, studies and peer-reviewed papers that the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute have listed on their website.
References:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7087284
www.cdc.gov/vaccines...
Source: vactruth.com - March 1, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories adjuvants Aluminum Salts Brazil Dr. Sears Microcephaly Source Type: blogs
Where did Zika virus come from and why is it a problem in Brazil?
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. (Source: The A and P Professor)
Source: The A and P Professor - January 27, 2016 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Postdoc: Fungal Evolution at University Arizona (Arnold Lab)
The Arnold lab at the University of Arizona seeks a postdoctoral researcher as part of a recently funded, collaborative project
supported by the National Science Foundation’s Genealogy of Life (GoLife) program. The project centers on enriching phylogenetic knowledge of the Pezizomycotina through new collections of endophytic and endolichenic fungi, with special attention to the evolution of symbioses with photosynthetic prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The position will begin on or near April 15, 2016, with an expected duration of two years (potentially expandable to three).
The position will be based in Tucson, A...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - January 22, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: postdoc arnold lab fungal evolution golife university of arizona Source Type: blogs
Where Do K-1 Visa Holders Come From?
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were killed last week in a gun battle with police after they committed a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Malik entered the U.S. on a K-1 visa, known as the fiancé visa, accompanied by Farook. Their attack is the first perpetrated by somebody on the K-1 visa - igniting a debate over increasing visa security.
The government issued approximately 262,162 K-1 visas from 2005 to 2013 – 3177 or 1.21 percent of the total to Pakistani citizens.
Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) SECURE Act identifies 34 countries as particularly terror-prone. There were 32,363 K-1 visa, 12.34 pe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Pythiosis in Humans
The following background data are abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com Primary references are available on request.
Human pythiosis was first described in Thailand, in 1987; and thirty-two cases had been published worldwide as of 2002. Most cases are reported from tropical and subtropical regions; however, human infection has also been encountered in United States, Israel and Australia. The principal pathogen is identified as Pythium insidiosum, and at least one case of Pythium aphanidermatum infection has been reported.
Most case reports of pythiosis are published from Thailand, which accounted for 78% of pub...
Source: GIDEON blog - August 18, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Ecuador’s Ambassador Misses the Point: Dollarization
Ecuador’s ambassador to the U.S., Francisco Borja Cevallos, wrote a letter, “Ecuador’s Progress,” which was published in the New York Times on August 8th. Ambassador Borja reviews a number of Ecuador’s recent economic accomplishments. Fine. After all, by Latin American standards, Ecuador has performed well. Indeed, my Misery Index rankings for the region in 2014 show that only Panama, Mexico, and El Salvador performed better than Ecuador did.
What Ambassador Borja failed to mention is the true source of Ecuador’s relative success: dollarization. Yes, Ecuador is dollarized. Ecuador represented a prime example of...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
Maui: A Good Start Toward Finishing the TPP
Trade ministers from the twelve nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) met last week in Maui. Some observers had expressed hopes that the Maui ministerial meeting would produce a final TPP agreement. The “collapse” in Hawaii has caused some commentators to voice fears that it may not be possible to conclude TPP anytime soon. Those fears are overblown. My view is that the Maui meeting qualifies as quite a good start toward actually finishing the TPP.
Bear in mind that the TPP negotiations have been going on for several years. The United States became an active participant during President Ob...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 5, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel R. Pearson Source Type: blogs
"Deprived" My Foot
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of hearing that Greece is being “deprived of fresh Euros” by the ECB, or by the European Commission, or that those bodies are “moving toward cutting off its money supply.” That’s to say nothing of the Greek government’s suggestion that Greece is being “blackmailed” by these authorities.
Such talk seems to suggest that Eurozone members are like so many helpless hatchlings, their outstretched beaks agape in anticipation of the ECB’s regular and solicitous regurgitations of liquid sustenance.
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, I’d like to take a stab at putting...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 11, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
