About Those “Misplaced” Classified Documents…
Patrick G. EddingtonNo one should envy Attorney General Merrick Garland. He now has another presidential scandal involving “misplaced” or otherwise purloined classified documents on his hands. Except this time, it involves President Joe Biden, the man who nominated Garland to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.Naturally, many of Biden ’s political opponents aredrawing parallels between the mountain of classified material that Donald Trump shipped to Mar ‐a‐Lago and the two batches (and counting?) of classified material in Biden’s possession outside of proper federal handling and storage chann...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
The Danger of Stroking a Tiger
By MIKE MAGEE
On the evening of December 29, 1940, with election to his 3rd term as President secured, FDR delivered these words as part of his sixteenth “Fireside Chat”: “There can no appeasement with ruthlessness…No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
Millions of Americans, and millions of Britons were tuned in that evening, as President Roosevelt made clear where he stood while carefully avoiding over-stepping his authority in a nation still in the grips of a combative and isolationist opposition party.
The Germans were listening as well and sent a different type of message as the Luft...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Churchill Fascism Franklin Roosevelt Hitler Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s New Legal Migration Border Plan Could Work If He Wants It To
ConclusionPresident Biden has announced one of the largest expansions in legal migration in decades, and if he succeeds in drastically reducing illegal crossings with these new procedures, it will likely lead to expansion to other nationalities. This is the first serious intentional effort to use legal migration to secure the border since the 1950s Bracero Program. Whether it succeeds depends more on how it is administered than the policy on paper, but the administration already knows the blueprint, so failure will have to include an element of intent. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Two Years After January 6, Electoral Count Act Reform Is Now Law
Thomas A. BerryTwo years ago today, dozens of members of Congress attempted to reject the electoral votes of Arizona and Pennsylvania during the electoral vote count. These senators and representativesinvoked the Electoral Count Act as the legal grounds for their objections. At the time, that law defined the procedure for both counting electoral votes and objecting to the validity of disputed electoral votes. These senators and representatives treated the Electoral Count Act as a license to relitigate election ‐law disputes that the courts had already settled. Their plans to oppose enough electoral votes to swing...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
Foobaw and more
Let me start with Damar Hamlin. His physicians haven ' t said anything publicly about what happened to him, but there are basically two possibilities. First, it is obviously uncommon but not unheard of for apparently healthy athletes to suffer cardiac arrest during exertion. This happened to Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis. I happened to be in Boston Garden watching the first round playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets on April 29, 1993 when Lewis collapsed. All of the spectators were baffled about what had happened. Doctors at New England Baptist Hospital later diagnosed him with a heart abnormality...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What It ’ s Like Being Me
I love asking people this question: What is it really like being you?
We can see how people speak and behave on the outside, but what do we know of their interior perspective?
What I love about this question is that it invites real intimacy and empathy. It’s an invitation into trust. I feel honored when someone does their best to answer honestly. It’s fascinating to discover how someone frames and experiences their interior world, at least to the extent they can articulate it.
I thought it would be interesting to answer this question too, if only to see what comes through when I try to answer it.
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Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Lifestyle Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Border Wall Was Breached 11 Times Per Day in 2022
David J. BierThis post updatesan October post with full ‐year and state data.President Trump promised an “impenetrable” border wall. Trump built (with some help from Biden) about 450 miles of his wall, accounting for two‐thirds of the border fence, and the remaining sections are the more recent designs that the Trump administration left because it largely approved of them.Despite the construction of these exceedingly expensive new barriers, crossers are breaching the border wall more frequently than before, according to data obtained by the Cato Institute through a recent Freedom of Information Act request...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 30, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
The Constitution, Health, and Culture in America
By MIKE MAGEE
“The Right to Health Care and the U.S. Constitution.” On the surface, it sounds like a straightforward topic – a simple presentation. But a gentle scratch at the surface reveals a controversy that literally dates back 250 years and more. Is it a “right”, a “privilege”, or simply a “necessity?”
I’m not a lawyer or Constitutional scholar. But I do know health care, its history, and its many strengths and weaknesses. What does our Constitution have to do with health care? The answer: That depends on how broadly you define “health.”
Before we were ever a nation, there existed...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy George Washington Health care for all Marshall Mike Magee US Constitution Source Type: blogs
Former US Sec. of Veterans Affairs & Daughter Launch Chronic Pain Care Startup, Override, Raise $3.5M, Acquire Leading Pain Coaching Company
A non-opioid solution utilizing a team-based approach to care & the latest in pain neuroscience
Emerging from stealth, Override, a new multi-specialty, virtual chronic pain solution, announces seed funding of $3.5 million. Founded by former US Secretary of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin MD, and his daughter, Jennie Shulkin JD, Override’s funding round was led by 7wireVentures and Martin Ventures, with SignalFire and Confluent Health joining the round. Shortly after fundraising, Override acquired the country’s leading pain management coaching business: Take Courage Coaching.
Today, 50 million adults (1 in 5) in th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 7wireVentures behavioral health Chronic Conditions Chronic Pain Chronic Pain Treatment Chronic Patient Confluent Health David Shulkin MD Health IT Funding Health IT Source Type: blogs
Senator Toomey Uses Final Senate Remarks to Criticize Trump ‐Biden “National Security” Tariffs
Clark PackardEarlier this afternoon, Sen. Pat Toomey (R ‑PA) used his final speech on the Senate floor to criticize the Trump and Biden administrations’ bogus “national security” tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. As Cato scholars havenoted, the statute used to impose these tariffs —Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962—has been rife with abuse.Sen. Toomey had three primary criticisms of the tariffs. First, the Trump ‐Biden steel and aluminum tariffs have hurt U.S. consumers and manufacturers in particular. Workers in steel‐consuming domestic industries outnumber workers in steel product...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 21, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Title 42 ’s End Won’t Affect Most Border Crossers
David J. BierThe U.S. Border Patrolcould soon lose its novel authority to expel border crossers back into Mexico under Title 42 of the U.S. code, a 19th century public health law never previously used to remove people from the United States. Since March 2020, the agency has used Title 42 to ignore the normal process to which crossers are entitled under Title 8 of the U.S. immigration code and force them back into Mexico often within a few minutes of their arrests. The government is also flying some migrants directly back to their home countries under the rule.Figure 1 shows the number of border arrests by processing type: ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
U.S. Can ’t Afford Another Decade Without New Free Trade Agreements
Clark PackardAs 2022 winds down, it is worth noting that it has now been ten years since the United States entered into a free trade agreement (FTA) with new trading partners. Despite claims that the United States is a “hyperglobalist,” the reality is much different. In fact, as Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for international economicsnoted in his excellentForeign Affairs essay last year, the United States has been withdrawing from international economic integration for about 20 years. The consequences of a stagnant trade agenda will become more apparent and pronounced as time passes.In 2012, U.S....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
More about Nam
I don ' t believe that a principal motivation for warmaking by U.S. political leaders was the influence of weapons manufacturers. Eisenhower literally warned the country about that in his farewell address. (For those who don ' t remember, he coined the phrase " military industrial complex. " ) Initially, U.S. politicians, including Eisenhower and Johnson, sincerely believed that they were combating a communist threat to the U.S. national interest. Many people thought this was nonsensical, but they were in a minority. The United States propped up brutal dictators all over the world in fear that their countries would otherwi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Testing Nuclear Weapons in the Lab Instead of the Ground
Eric GomezEarlier this week, the Department of Energy announced the major scientific accomplishment ofachieving a fusion ignition in a lab setting.The experiment fired nearly two hundred high-power lasers at a small fuel pellet to briefly create the intense heat and pressure necessary for a fusion reaction to take place and, for the first time, the reaction produced more energy than it consumed.A successful fusion ignition experiment is an important scientific achievement, but there are reasonable questions about the practical, near-term utility of the experiment.The words “nuclear fusion”likely conjure images of space...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
Echoing Trump, Biden Embraces International Trade Lawlessness
James BacchusThe prolonged charade of the United States is over in its disingenuous opposition to the reconstitution of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. It is clear now that the Biden administration —like theTrump administration before it —has no desire to restore the highest court of appeal in world trade as an independent and impartial tribunal. One now glaring reason is the absence of an Appellate Body will enable the United States to escape the imposition of what would likely have been billions of dollars in annual trade sancti ons because of its continued imposition of illegal tariffs on imports...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
