Who should be the ruler of the United States' health care system?
There is a concerted and well-orchestrated effort on the part of Washington, D.C. government leaders to reform health care from the top down. This would make government the health care ruler in the United States. Why would anyone believe that putting government in charge of health care will solve its problems? Consumers are ultimately the rulers of the United States economy, and when they rule, prices fall while service and selection increases.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
ObamaCare should not rule the health care system... sooo who can?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
'climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists' and liberal elites
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
BY JONATHAN MANTHORPE, VANCOUVER SUNJULY 28, 2009Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed.
It is, of course, not new to have a highly qualified scientist saying that global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon with many precedents in history. Many have made the argument, too, that it is rubbish to contend human behaviour is causing the current climate change. And it has often been well argued that it is totally ridiculous to suppose that changes in human behaviour -- cleaning up our act through expensive slight-of-hand taxation tricks -- can reverse the trend.
But most of these scientific and academic voices have fallen silent in the face of environmental Jacobinism. Purging humankind of its supposed sins of environmental degradation has become a religion with a fanatical and often intolerant priesthood, especially among the First World urban elites. full story...