Jimmy Carter vs. the Fairness Doctrine
Paul MatzkoJimmy Carter has lived long enough —and he is the longest living former president by a substantialmargin, with the gap between him and #2, George HW Bush, nearly as wide as that between Bush and #6, Herbert Hoover! —to see the fruits from his sweeping crusade for federal deregulation.Others havediscussed Carter ’slegacy as theGreat Deregulator of airlines, craft beer, trucking, rail, oil and natural gas, and much more. It ’s all true and Carter deserves credit for laying the foundation for the economic prosperity of the 1980s and 1990s.But I want to focus on an underrated aspect of Carter’s deregula...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Section 301 Tariffs Cost Americans, Not the Chinese
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithThe United States Trade Representative (USTR) is conducting a four‐year review of the Section 301 tariffs imposed on imports from China. In 2018, the USTR initiatedan investigation into China ’s technology and intellectual property practices and concluded that they adversely affected U.S. businesses. As a result, the U.S. imposed punitive tariffs up to 25 percent on over $300 billion worth of imports from China.As part of the review process, interested Americans could provide comments to the USTR. The almost 1,500 comments filedpaint an ugly picture —higher costs and prices, and less inv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Overstating Crypto Crime Won ’t Lead to Sound Policy
Jennifer J. Schulp,Jack Solowey,Nicholas Anthony,& Nicholas ThielmanLast week, the Justice Departmentannounced criminal charges against Anatoly Legkodymov for violating anti-money laundering laws while operating Bitzlato, an off-shore crypto exchange alleged to have processed over $700 million in illicit funds over several years. Concurrently, the Treasury Department ’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)ordered covered financial institutions to cease transacting with Bitzlato.Like all financial instruments, crypto is used for crime, and this fact ought to be taken seriously. But blunt claims like Senator E...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer J. Schulp, Jack Solowey, Nicholas Anthony, Nicholas Thielman Source Type: blogs
What Is the Legal Authority for Biden ’s Parole Programs?
David J. BierPresident Bidenannounced on January 5, 2023 that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be creating new programs for Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans that would grant parole —a temporary discretionary status—to qualified applicants with U.S. sponsors for up to 2 years. Now several statesare suing to stop the programs, which will lead to more illegal immigration. Without getting into the states ’ various administrative law claims, my view is that there is little support for the states ' narrow view of the parole power in the legislative history or judicial precedent.[1]Parole is com...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Don't know much about history
I believe I ' ve mentioned now and again that I ' ve been reading a lot of history lately. It ' s just something I ' ve gotten into now that I ' m taking a semi-sabbatical. I wouldn ' t say I ' ve encountered major surprises -- I was conversant with the broad outlines of American and European history. I have certainly learned a lot of specifics and gotten a deeper understanding of the larger stories and patterns over the past few months.Sadly, most Americans know very little history. Even asserting some basic, indisputable facts can provoke howls of outrage -- for instance, the United States was founded as a white supremac...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The real Martin Luther King Jr.
Hajar Yazdiha at Talking Points Memo discusses the misuse of the life and works of MLK. Ever since a national holiday was established in his honor, reactionaries have chosen not to reject or deplore the memory of King, but to create a fictional version of him, taking some of his words out of context, ignoring much of what he really stood for. Although King had a vision of a society in which race would not matter, at least not invidiously, he knew that it did matter in the present and would continue to matter for a long time to come. Getting to his dream required seeing that it mattered and treating it as an essential probl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 16, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Walter E. Grinder, 1938 –2022
John Hagel IIIWalter Grinder passed away in December 2022 after fighting many illnesses. He lived a long and productive life, driven by his desire to help those around him and to drive change in the broader world.Born in the Pittsburgh area in 1938, Walter graduated from Grove City College, where he had the good fortune to study under Hans Sennholz. He was then drawn to the New York City area, where he had an opportunity to study with Ludwig von Mises, Ludwig Lachmann, and Israel Kirzner at New York University and taught economics at Rutgers University –Newark. Walter and his wife, Mary Jane, lived in New Jersey, wh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Hagel III 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
Medgadget Visits Healthcare ᐩ Expo Taiwan
This past week, Medgadget was an official media partner with the Healthcareᐩ Expo Taiwan. This four-day annual event brings together healthcare companies from all over Taiwan and the rest of the world. It is also an opportunity for tech companies not typically associated with healthcare, such as ASUS, Intel, and BenQ, to showcase what they’re doing in medicine and healthcare.
The event kicked off with an opening ceremony presided by Taiwan president Tsai Ing-Wen, as well as the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between hospital representatives from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand...
Source: Medgadget - December 17, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Genetics Medicine Telemedicine healthcareexpo Taiwan TaiwanHealthcare Source Type: blogs
Nam
I ' m reading Vietnam: An epic tragedy, 1945-1975, by Max Hastings. In many ways it ' s more instructive than other histories I have read of the Vietnam war. It begins with the Vietminh rebellion against French rule, and the gradual takeover of the war by the U.S., which is helpful context. Hastings ranges over all of the parties: the North Vietnamese government, society and army; the South Vietnamese puppet government, its army and society; U.S political leaders, military leaders, and the military in Vietnam; civilian profiteers; China and the Soviet Union; and the U.S. public, both pro and anti-war.The partition of Vietn...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 16, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane
Timothy SandefurIt was on this day in 1886 that the journalist and authorRose Wilder Lane was born in a little house on the prairie that she and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, would later make famous. A brilliant, moody, and independent spirit, Rose was eventually to become one of the most important voices of American liberty, and in 1943, publishedThe Discovery of Freedom, a pathbreaking book that helped spark the revival of interest in free markets and individualism in the later 20th century.Ironic, then, that she started out as a socialist.Lane grew up hating the life on the farm, and decided at an early age t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Timothy Sandefur Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 699
Answer:Clonorchis sinensis/Opisthorchiseggs. The location (South Korea) is consistent withC. sinensis.As noted by Sam, " Both eggs have an abopercular knob and an obvious operculum. So these could be eggs of eitherClonorchis sinensisorOpisthorchisspecies (both liver flukes). We can ' t differentiate based on morphology, but based on the patient being from/living in South Korea, we can likely narrow the identification down toClonorchis sinensis, as Korea is an endemic region for this parasite. WhereasOpisthorichis viverriniis endemic to South East Asia (i.e, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand). Biliary complications can aris...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - October 23, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Policies in Vietnam v. Human Rights
This article is going to discuss the Vietnam ’s COVID-19 policies... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 22, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Not Looking Like Leverage: The False Promises of Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
Jordan Cohen andJonathan Ellis AllenIn June, the State Department issued a report suggesting that poor oversight over U.S. weapons in thewar in Yemen directly led to civilian casualties, starvation, and displacement. On September 7, Senators Bernie Sanders (I ‑VT), Elizabeth Warren (D‑MA), and Mike Lee (R‑UT)sent letters in response arguing that the U.S. role in this conflict is “an unacceptable failure” and that the “United States may be complicit to in Yemen would represent a failure in the Biden administration ’s stated prioritization of human rights and our core democratic values.”An estimated...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jordan Cohen, Jonathan Ellis Allen Source Type: blogs
Secrets
It should come as no surprise that I am not a big fan of the FBI or the U.S. " intelligence " services. Historically, the FBI has been an instrument of oppression of leftist and progressive organizations, movements and individuals. The FBI murdered Fred Hampton, a man I greatly admired. They tried to murder Martin Luther King Jr. and it ' s just possible that they actually did. They infiltrated progressive organizations with provocateurs and disrupted their operations. They blackmailed people and they even ratf.ed the Hillary Clinton campaign and helped make TFG president.As for the CIA, they repeatedly engineered military...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 1, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
