socglory.blogspot.com - 12/22/2008
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The focus of this blog is on the wonders of government-run health-care everywhere but I also note the damage done to private medicine by a legal system that supports predatory litigation. The long-established socialized medicine systems in Britain and Australia are a particularly relevant ...
online.wsj.com - 12/21/2008
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online.wsj.com —
The world ran out of trust in 2008
-- but there is no shortage of money because
the Fed is printing like mad. It's the wrong approach, with potentially dire consequences, says James Grant.
(more)
Is the Medicine Worse Than the Illness?
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Dissecting Leftism —
... It it is basically a partial retreat or concession that is disguised as not being a retreat or a concession. So it means something like "an evasive compromise", "handling a dilemma by vagueness" or "concealing what is really going on by vague or misleading words". It might not be too unkind to describe the whole of British politics as one big fudge. I doubt that the word is capable of precise definition but precision is, after all, anathema to it. There are some good examples of it here (Scroll down a little). ...
The fate of the Jews — continued
Stop The ACLU —
... It it is basically a partial retreat or concession that is disguised as not being a retreat or a concession. So it means something like “an evasive compromise”, “handling a dilemma by vagueness” or “concealing what is really going on by vague or misleading words”. It might not be too unkind to describe the whole of British politics as one big fudge. I doubt that the word is capable of precise definition but precision is, after all, anathema to it. There are some good examples of it here (Scroll down a little). And I did make the point that the relatively small population of ...
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