Gubernatorial candidates interested in becoming conversant on the issue of healthcare can look here, here, and here. If last night’s debaters were any indication, none are particularly well versed.-Max Borders
Monthly Archives: February 2008
- Feb08
Torture: In the Eye of the Beholder?
Supporters of John McCain will like this editorial in the N&O. Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t see how unpleasant interrogation is torture. War is not for the squeamish. Dealing with terrorists surely isn’t. And when we’re functioning in the extra-Constititutional domain of terrorists and foreign combatants, isn’t it worth making their situation [...]
- 7Feb07
Healthcare: the Liberal Grand Strategy
When it comes to healthcare, liberals have an end game. They are patient. And they are willing to coordinate a grand strategy at the federal, state and local levels. That endgame is socialized medicine. They are using incremental means to get there. The strategy is this: slowly destroy whatever is left of the insurance market [...]
- Feb06
Cooperation without Centralization
I love this fable. If you’ve never read "I, Pencil," you should.-Max Borders
- Feb06
Thoughts on Super Tuesday
As I was reading all the recap and analysis from last night’s voting, I found one piece that really seems to make some sense of the Republican race. Basically, it says the Republican contest is operating in two realities: pundit-based reality and voter-based reality. Pundit-based reality is the political simulacra created by the bloggers, journalists, [...]
- Feb05
Richard Moore’s “Fresh Ideas”
The "Richard Moore for Governor" website features the catchy phrase "Fixing problems…with fresh ideas." But someone in Moore’s camp would be wise to check the freshness date of some of those ideas. Under the "issues" section, one can find Mr. Moore’s prescription for ‘Health Care Affordability and Access" The entry is dated May 22, 2007. [...]
- Feb05
Conscious Capitalism a la Bill Gates
This talk isn’t perfect, but it articulates three things everyone should remember: a) Enterprises are the engines of wealth creation;b) All values – even benevolent values – can figure into the world of value exchange;c) Social entrepreneurship is possible because of a) and b). It’s long, but check it out. Bill Gates at Davos.-Max Borders
- 2Feb05
Corporate Welfare, Economic Development – Collapse
Here’s what happens when government tries to plan the economy.-Max Borders
- Feb04
Transit Fund: How to Pay for Billion-Dollar Boondoggles
According to this article in the Triangle Business Journal, some transportation geniuses are deriving new ways to drain more of your money in order to subsidize overpriced mass transit for wealthy folks so they don’t have to lower themselves to taking buses. Of course, such projects never reduce the traffic they claim to reduce (usually [...]