What does June 15th mean to you? It’s the feast day of St. Vitus in Germany, the patron saint of comedians, dancers and Sicilians. King John of England begrudgingly signed the Magna Cara on this day in 1215. Margaret Jones became the first person executed in Massachusetts for witch craft in 1648. Benjamin Franklin tied […]

The Galen Institute, Grace-Marie Turner President, galen.org founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. Grace-Marie has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.  She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, […]

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Tom Wolfe died on May 14th 2018   The unsparing chronicler of American society and mores was 88 AT SOME convenient point in any morning, Tom Wolfe would put on his working clothes. Over a silk shirt, maybe ultramarine, maybe striped, he knotted a silk tie. A proper Windsor knot! No plastic cheaters, like Marshal […]

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. –Chinese proverb Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalized. —G. K. Chesterton 1874 If you haven’t been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it’s much harder. You need more luck. –Simone de Beauvoir 

by Daniel J. Mitchell President Donald Trump told foreign leaders at the Group of Seven summit that they must dramatically reduce trade barriers with the United States… Trump, in a news conference before leaving for Singapore, described private conversations he held over two days with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. He said […]

APHORISMS Attributing overweight to overeating is hardly more illuminating than ascribing alcoholism to alcohol. —Jean Mayer All that running and exercise can do for you is make you healthy. —Denny McClain A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. […]

When I was in training to become a physician, I spent my time at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. In one of the introductory lectures, we were told to study diligently and to keep on studying for the rest of our lives. The professors stated that the science of medicine was expanding, and […]

Dr. Rosen:      Social Security and Medicare are projected to become insolvent during the next decade. What are the possible solutions? Dr. Edwards:  It is fairly obvious that both will need to be cut. But will that be possible? Dr. Milton:      It will be difficult if even possible. Dr. Ruth:        The country has gotten so used […]

Government control its own spending has been variable and even rare. There are isolated instances of where this may be true. Robert Sobel in his treatise, Coolidge, An American Enigma, whose low rankings as President was the work of Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr and also Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr and was due to selective mining […]