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Every year, Medicare is scheduled to cut payments to physicians and hostitals. Every year, Congress delays the cuts. There will come a time when Congress doesn’t. The province of Ontario has launched a new cost-cutting program. It is reducing payments to physicians. If this policy continues, physicians will lose money on patients. So, they will [...]
Continue reading →President Obama recently an executive order. An executive order is a federal law that Congress never discusses. It is pure Executive action. There are over 13,500 of them. No one knows what is in all of them. They are written in bureaucratic code. No President knows what he is signing, not even when he is [...]
Continue reading →Freedom of speech? Surely, you jest. This man got diabetes. He started a blog on treating diabetes. He broke the law by doing this. He is not licensed to promote such opinions. He promotes the so-called “paleo” diet: low carbohydrates. (The diet is not “paleo.” It’s capitalist. I have explained this here.) He criticizes the [...]
Continue reading →By executive order, Obama has created the beginning of a vast new regulatory system to control natural gas. Congress had nothing to say about this. Natural gas prices are falling due to new methods of extraction called fracking. This is creating havoc for the anti-growth environmentalists. It has dropped the price of natural gas. Across [...]
Continue reading →California is the cutting-edge state. Close to bankruptcy, the state’s urban planers are ready to begin the implementation of a truly utopian project: to get Californians to live like Swedes live in Sweden. Like sardines. New rules in the San Francisco Bay area will no longer allow developers to build communities with fewer than 20 [...]
Continue reading →Congress in its wisdom passed a law in 2007 that led to the banning incandescent of the sale of light bulbs, beginning on New Year’s Day, 2012. By 2015, all of them in between 40 watts and 150 watts must be gone from the shelves. The 100-watt lights go first, by law. Maybe you don’t [...]
Continue reading →“Government is dumb.” That was a motto that Howard Ruff used to espouse. It made sense to me. We see this in government policies to prevent monopolies in shrinking markets. It makes mergers illegal in industries that consumers are abandoning. Why intervene? Officially, to protect consumers. Actually, to gain more control, hire more people, and [...]
Continue reading →In 1992, the United Nations’ Kyoto Agreement set up Agenda 21. It is a project for the removal of national sovereignty. It is comprehensive. The UN has issued a series of guidelines to implement it. The latest is the International Covenant on Environment and Development (4th ed.). It is 200 pages long. The key section [...]
Continue reading →Mayor Bloomberg, the multi-billionaire mayor of New York, has had it with people who donate Twinkies to shelters for the homeless. Anything that is not nutritious must not be given to hungry people. This is his version of the hunger game. Here is his slogan: “Let them eat Tofu!” The Bloomberg administration is blocking food [...]
Continue reading →We are now three years into the Obama Administration. So far, new regulations have added $46 billion in costs to businesses. This is four times the pace of the regulations under George W. Bush in his first three years. The Federal Register adds over 82,000 pages a year, each with three columns. This takes place [...]
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