Here’s the difference between a ‘socialist’ and a ‘Democratic socialist’ John Haltiwanger |  Business Insider | Nov. 7, 2018 After 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset against Rep. Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic congressional primary in June, the word “socialist” was repeatedly used to describe her. Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman elected to Congress […]

A global epidemic of attacks on ethical physicians, which endangers patients, was the focus of the 13th UNESCO World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law recently in Jerusalem. Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., was the keynote speaker on “Sham Peer Review: a Worldwide Phenomenon.” Dr. Huntoon, a neurologist practicing in New York, is editor-in-chief of […]

Michael Harrington would be appalled at the boorish tactics of today’s DSA. By Michael S. Bernick | WSJ | July 11, 2018 ‘This is not your grandfather’s democratic socialism,” a Washington Post columnist gushes in a video celebrating the congressional primary victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. As someone […]

Success must be measured not by the amount of money we throw at poverty solutions, but by the number of people who are exiting poverty. https://fee.org/people/xavier-underwood/   Xavier Underwood Tuesday, December 11, 2018 In a few short weeks, America will welcome the 116th Congress. I believe the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., […]

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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Obituaries           Wanda Ferragamo, who expanded family shoe business into a fashion empire, dies at 96 Wanda Ferragamo, who took over her husband’s shoe-design and manufacturing business after his death and, with the help of her six children, expanded the company of Salvatore Ferragamo into a global fashion empire, died Oct. 19 at her home […]

Last month’s Postings: In the November Issue Featured Article: Will the prosperity of the last two years continue? In the News: The Saga of the Leaning Millennium Tower of San Francisco. International Medicine: Fast Dismemberment with bone cutter while still alive. Medicare: Does the 14th Amendment Include children of Illegal Immigrants?  Medical Gluttony: If you […]

Christmas comes but once a year, but the shopping season lasts much longer. There was a time when the advertising didn’t start before December. Slowly but surely the kickoff date was moved to November, the day after Thanksgiving. Then it was moved to October, even prior to Halloween. At this rate, in another century, we’ll […]

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. —Chinese proverb Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. –Samuel Johnson One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. –Marie Curie Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is […]