The Exquisite Contrarian

The Christian Science Monitor chimes in with an opinion as to why US healthcare so expensive today, and their answer goes like this: Those on the economic left [in England and the US] simply don’t want to admit it. It is, in fact, the same problem we have with healthcare in our country: People don’t pay [...]

I suspect we could be seeing Iraq’s final gasp of democracy this weekend, a last purple-fingered salute before the country slips back into a more familiar authoritarianism. It’s not this election we need to worry about, in other words—it’s the next one, four years from now.  This uncomfortable truth was hard to ignore after the [...]

“I believe the time has come to consider a change to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” General David Petraeus told the Armed Services Committee today, in his most direct public comments about the policy. “I think it should be done in a thoughtful and deliberative matter that should include the conduct of the review that Secretary [...]