MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'establishment'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4676754&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvaQFtvT5V3c%2F By Ilya ShapiroAs Andrew and Adam have already explained, today’s decision in ACSTO v. Winn, though grounded in the technical legal doctrine of “standing,” is a big win for school choice and state flexibility in education reform.  Even more importantly, it makes clear that there is a difference between tax credits and government spending; to find that tax money was used for unconstitutional ends here would have assumed that all income is government property until the state allows taxpayers to keep a portion of it.  That is not, to put it mildly, how we think of private property. Of course, even had the Court found that Arizona’s scholarship scheme involved the use of state funds, the program would have been insulated from Establishment Clause challenge because it offered the “g... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4676754 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:18:53 +0100 4676754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4027151&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVxq4Zjb-mkk%2F By Ilya ShapiroToday is the first Monday in October, the traditional start of the Supreme Court term.  While we have yet to see as many blockbuster constitutional cases on the docket as we did last term—which, despite the high profile 5-4 splits in McDonald v. Chicago and Citizens United actually produced fewer dissents than any in recent memory—we do look forward to: Two big free speech challenges, one over a statute prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors, another the offensive protesting of a fallen soldier’s funeral; An Establishment Clause lawsuit against Arizona’s tax credit for private tuition funds (an alternative to educational voucher programs); Regulatory federalism (or “preemption”) cases involving: safety standards for seatbelts; an Arizona statute... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4027151 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:06:21 +0100 4027151 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3946441&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fz_YNqVJQ_dE%2F By Roger PilonToday Politico Arena asks: How does the Koran burning controversy relate to the Ground Zero mosque controversy? My response: As with the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque, Rev. Terry Jones and his tiny band of followers have a perfect right to burn Korans, but it would be well beyond insensitive to do so. Yet where are the establishment voices drawing the parallels? Where is President Obama, leaping to his defense? Instead, we find the likes of the editorialists at the New York Times giving moral instruction to benighted New Yorkers, two-thirds of whom oppose siting a mosque at Ground Zero even as they defend Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s right to build it there. Meanwhile, last evening on the PBS NewsHour, the very essence of establishment TV, the sole guest on th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3946441 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:08 +0100 3946441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3822906&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHxNhFfHgHCA%2F By Ilya ShapiroArizona grants income tax credits for contributions made to school tuition organizations (“STOs”).  STOs must use these donations for scholarships that allow students to attend private schools.  This statutory scheme broadens the educational opportunities for thousands of students by enabling them to attend schools they would otherwise lack the means to attend.  Still, several taxpayers filed a lawsuit challenging the program as creating a state establishment of religion. Although the Ninth Circuit acknowledged that increasing educational opportunities is a valid secular purpose for a legislative act, it found that the tax credit program nonetheless violates the Establishment Clause because many of the STOs—as it happens, a decreasing majority—provide scholarships... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3822906 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:14:53 +0100 3822906 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625482&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Ftm7cso7dmCk%2F By David BoazWhat is it with modern American liberals and taxes? Apparently they don’t just see taxes as a necessary evil, they actually like ‘em; they think, as Gail Collins puts it in the New York Times, that in a better world “little kids would dream of growing up to be really big taxpayers.” But you really see liberals’ taxophilia coming out when you read the reviews of the new movie Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe. If liberals don’t love taxes, they sure do hate tax protesters. Carlo Rotella, director of American Studies at Boston College, writes in the Boston Globe that this Robin Hood is “A big angry baby [who] fights back against taxes” and that the movie is “hamstrung by a shrill political agenda — endless fake-populist ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625482 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:07:47 +0100 3625482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3607478&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F4p9MAsnEARs%2F By David BoazState Rep. Raul Labrador walloped Republican establishment favorite Vaughn Ward in Idaho’s 1st District congressional primary. Idaho native Sarah Palin campaigned for Ward, who had worked in the McCain presidential campaign in 2008. Labrador drew strong support from Tea Party activists. According to Politico, “Ward’s defeat also came despite his high-profile support from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who did more to assist Ward than she did for almost any other House candidate. Last Friday, she headlined a rally and fundraiser for Ward, and her parents and in-laws were supporters of Ward’s campaign.” Lots of Republican incumbents lost their legislative seats, too, suggesting the continuing power of Tea Party activism and general populist unrest. (Sourc... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3607478 Thu, 27 May 2010 19:35:34 +0100 3607478 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581597&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fv6J_NeCBCNw%2F By Tad DeHavenIn his Kentucky Republican primary victory speech last night, Rand Paul took a well-placed shot at one of the more repulsive props used by Beltway politicians: “We have come to take our government back from the special interests who think that the federal government is their own personal ATM … from the politicians who bring us over-sized fake checks emblazoned with their signature as if it was their money to give.” The comment immediately brought to mind a C@L blog I wrote in 2008 that criticized the Senate Minority Leader from Kentucky, Republican Mitch McConnell, for being a hypocrite when it comes to big government spending.  I titled the post “The Bluegrass Porker” and included this picture: That fellow on the right holding the fake, over-sized... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581597 Wed, 19 May 2010 15:58:46 +0100 3581597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581598&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJqoFb0obcIs%2F By Ilya ShapiroFriend-of-Cato and 2010 Milton Friedman Prize Dinner keynote speaker George Will published an excellent column today about a case under review at the Supreme Court, Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn: The case concerns an Arizona school choice program that has been serving low- and middle-income families for 13 years. The state grants a tax credit to individuals who donate to nonprofit entities that award scholarships for children to attend private schools — including religious schools. Yes, here we go again. The question — if a question that has been redundantly answered remains a real question — is whether this violates the First Amendment proscription of any measure amounting to government “establishment of religion.” The i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581598 Wed, 19 May 2010 15:56:13 +0100 3581598 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3505095&cid=t_178790_135_f&fid=35274&url=http%3A%2F%2Facidrefluxweb.com%2F%3Fp%3D4428 A friend told me that The Star ran an article yesterday on The Jane Hotel, the place I stayed when I went to NYC to see Kathy Griffin with my friend Barry.  I should find my little video I made with them waving good-bye to us dressed in their old-school hotel uniform. It is a very cool place to stay, and cheap! Only steps away from any number, or should I say letter of twelve-step recovery house for the sober girl on the go. There valuable shopping time at steak, you want every possible retail experience only a stone’s throw away. It’s nice to know that my friend and I were a head of the curve of this establishment, once again showing how I can still pull off my glamorous lifestyle of the moderately poor and infected. Today I’m off to Hamilton where Brenda, Jim (both Positi... acidrefluxweb.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3505095 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:53:00 +0100 3505095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395108&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FX6fN6twbCus%2F By Roger PilonToday Politico Arena asks: Should Republican leaders be doing more to reign in the rhetoric? My response: One hesitates to weigh in on this mud-slinging for fear of getting muddy oneself.  But neither should commentary on Republican and tea-party reaction to Sunday’s House vote be left to the suddenly self-righteous Democratic left:  After all, it’s their appalling disregard for democratic principles and processes that gave rise to the weekend’s demonstrations and outbursts.  So a few points are in order, simply to put things in perspective. First, let’s not leap to factual conclusions.  Last evening the Lehrer News Hour reported (along with Politico this morning) that Rep. Randy Neugebauer shouted “baby killer” as Rep. Bart Stupak w... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395108 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:34:48 +0100 3395108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395111&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvGl1dTTGmxk%2F By Ilya ShapiroArizona grants income tax credits for contributions made to school tuition organizations (“STO”).  These STOs must these donations for scholarships that allow students to attend private schools.  This statutory scheme broadens the educational opportunities for thousands of students by enabling them to attend schools they would otherwise lack the means to attend.  The Ninth Circuit held that the tax credit program violated the Establishment Clause because many of the STOs — as it happens, a decreasing majority — provide scholarships for students to attend parochial schools.  Counsel for the defendants, including the Institute for Justice, asked the Supreme Court to review the case — and indeed to summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit, based in part on ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395111 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:17:18 +0100 3395111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958816&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FwjQRYX3dyZs%2F This morning, Politico’s Arena asks: “Election 09: What’s the message?” My response: A note on NY 23, then to the larger message in yesterday’s returns. Already this morning we’re seeing an effort to spin the NY 23 outcome as a warning to Republicans and a hopeful sign for Democrats. Yet the striking thing about that outcome is how close a third-party candidate came in the face of opposition from the Republican establishment. And the ultimate outcome can doubtless be explained simply by absentee ballots, plus voters unaware of the last-minute developments in the race. Thus, given those factors, the NY 23 outcome is perfectly consistent with returns in the rest of the country. (In fact, Conservative and Republican votes in that race total more than 50 per... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958816 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:18:12 +0100 2958816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958824&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FL7tKUsex0Fk%2F Many thanks to Lisa Snell at Reason for bringing this interesting historical fun fact from 1973 to light: Ayn Rand was a fan of education tax credits: In the face of such evidence, one would expect the government’s performance in the field of education to be questioned, at the least, [but] the growing failures of the educational establishment are followed by the appropriation of larger and larger sums. There is, however, a practical alternative: tax credits for education. The essentials of the idea (in my version) are as follows: an individual citizen would be given tax credits for the money he spends on education, whether his own education, his children’s, or any person’s he wants to put through a bona fide school of his own choice (including primary, secondary, and high... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958824 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:20:47 +0100 2958824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2950686&cid=t_178790_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F02%2Fstatutory-instruments-relating-to-health-4%2F SI 2009 No. 2874. National Health Service, England. The Bolton Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2009 SI 2009 No. 2873. National Health Service, England. The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) Amendment Order 2009 Posted in Legislation, NHS, Primary Care, Statutory Instruments Tagged: Dissolution, Establishment, Legislation, North West, Primary Care, Statutory Instruments (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2950686 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:00:28 +0100 2950686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2561176&cid=t_178790_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F01%2Frecent-health-related-statutory-instruments-4%2F SI 2009 No. 1554. Children And Young Persons, England. The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009 SI 2009 No. 1577. National Health Service, England. The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2009 Posted in Children, Hospitals, Infants, Information Governance, Legislation, NHS, Statutory Instruments, Young People Tagged: Children, Establishment Orders, Information Governance, Legislation, NHS, NHS Trusts, Statutory Instruments (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2561176 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:41:54 +0100 2561176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389661&cid=t_178790_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FygayuXbSqBs%2F The City of San Diego leases portions of Balboa Park and Fiesta Island to the San Diego Boy Scouts, which use the land to operate a camp and aquatic center.  The Boy Scouts use the leased areas for their own events but otherwise keep them open to the general public — and have spent millions of dollars to improve and maintain facilities on the properties, eliminating the need for taxpayer funding.  While the Boy Scouts’ membership policies exclude homosexuals and agnostics, the Scouts have not erected any religious symbols and do not discriminate in any way in administering the leased parklands. Nevertheless, a lesbian couple with a son and an agnostic couple with a daughter challenged the leases under the Establishment Clauses of the U.S. and California Constitutions.  Although ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389661 Tue, 05 May 2009 20:49:50 +0100 2389661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1838708&cid=t_178790_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2008%2F09%2F29%2Fthe-stupid-cancer-show%2F Tonight I appeared on The Stupid Cancer Show, the weekly broadcast from Matthew Zachary, the founder of I’m Too Young for This. (For the record, I am in no way young, but I slipped in under the radar.) Files are available for listening anytime. Below is my script. I’m going to talk about cancer and lies. First you lie to yourself The fatigue/pain/lumps were always there. It’s not cancer! It can’t be. I’m too special to get cancer. Cancer is for other people. I’ve never been the disease type. I’m too hip for cancer. Cancer is so conformist, so dreary. All those unflattering turbans and sad smiles. Why would anyone choose cancer? Then again, some women go back to wife-beaters. But not me! Then the cancer establishment lies to you You’re gonn... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1838708 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:53:26 +0100 1838708 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1385454&cid=t_178790_113_f&fid=35744&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fe-CareManagement%2F%7E3%2F273582224%2F David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Vince Kuraitis Drs. Mandl and Kohane begin their recent article in NEJM with the statement that “large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management of health care information,” and then warn that this “will profoundly affect the biomedical research enterprise.”    At issue for the authors is who controls the information about you and me, our health and healthcare data. Without coming right out and saying it directly, they worry that data in the hands of consumers and patients made possible through PCHR service providers like Google and Microsoft could be dangerous to the nation’s health because of  “commercial interests”.   So, they are warning us, too. But, let’s examine the... e-CareManagement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1385454 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:10:33 +0100 1385454