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 'heritage'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159632&cid=t_155178_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F24%2Fthe-town-of-perth-ontarios-appreciation-of-her-past%2F My heart goes out to the people of Goderich who learned this week how quickly our architectural heritage can be severely damaged or wiped out completely. Having recently returned from a summer visit to my ancestral home (in Canada, at least, say ancestry.ca friends) I am renewed in my delight of how seriously the Town [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159632 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:31:39 +0100 5159632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704622&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsekdUPDCf4M%2F By Christopher PrebleLast week I expressed my disappointment with Paul Ryan’s budget plan, specifically about his unwillingness to cut military spending. Some people think that he does cut spending through his acceptance of Secretary Gates’s $78 in “cuts.” (see, for example, Sen. John Sununu; Sen. Joseph Lieberman, AEI’s Gary Schmitt and Tom Donnelly; and the Heritage Foundation’s Baker Spring). So either I am wrong, or they are. Let me try to set the record straight. First, all of Ryan’s other savings — savings which I support — were projected either against the Obama administration’s FY 2012 budget or against the current budget baseline. For example, according to Ryan’s own “Key Facts” his plan “Cuts $6.2 trillion in government spending over the next d... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704622 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:02:15 +0100 4704622 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642726&cid=t_155178_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FB0_WsC3JVZ8%2F Just a reminder, the $3 million Heritage Health Prize competition will kick off on April 4. Sponsored by the Heritage Provider Network in Southern and Central California, the competition is meant to promote innovation in predictive modeling and clinical decision support, with the goal of helping physicians develop care plans to keep high-risk patients healthy and out of the hospital. In a story I wrote for Inside Healthcare IT (formerly Inside Healthcare Computing) in January, I explained that HPN will provide contestants with three years worth of de-identified claims data on 100,000 patients, from which they are expected to develop algorithms to identify high-risk patients. “We’re looking for an algorithm to allow us to predict, based on a person’s history, the likelihood of a perso... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642726 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:29:54 +0100 4642726 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4464485&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcvPPsHgnixw%2F By Julian SanchezIf you wonder why House Republicans were so keen on ramming through an extension of the Patriot Act without hearings or debate, take a gander at the Heritage Foundation's blog post and Web memo on the topic. I want to run through the latter in some detail, because I think it's telling just how poorly the case against reform stands up to scrutiny in the rare instances when the law's defenders feel obliged to make an argument more sustained than "Boo! Terrorists!"  Here's how they begin: With at least 36 known plots foiled since 9/11, the United States continues to face a serious threat of terrorism. As such, national security investigators continue to need these authorities to track down terror leads and dismantle plots before the public is in any danger. These three amend... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4464485 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:14:14 +0100 4464485 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436734&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1wHKFKpvb7E%2F By Sallie JamesJames Sherk of the Heritage Foundation has an excellent report out today on Trade Adjustment Assistance, and why Congress should allow the program to expire. Without action, it is set to do so on February 12 [$]. Trade Adjustment Assistance is a collection of programs that have been with us since the mid-1970s. The programs provide taxpayer-funded benefits to workers (and firms, and farmers, and entire "communities") who are harmed -- e.g., by losing their job -- from import competition. The main program is the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers program, administered by the Department of Labor and the subject of a paper I wrote in 2007.  It pains me to say that my 2007 call for its abolishment was instead followed in 2009 by an expansion of the program as part of ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436734 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:04:54 +0100 4436734 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309813&cid=t_155178_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F03%2Frequiem-for-an-old-neglected-empress%2F A banner light for the Yonge-Downtown BIA is framed wth sad irony as water is poured on the former Empress Hotel today.   Oh, your Highness, The Empress Hotel, I didn’t know you, not even your successor The Edison. (Most Torontonians lived elsewhere or were not yet born during your building’s heyday; now your Ryerson [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309813 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:32:36 +0100 4309813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4304918&cid=t_155178_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F02%2Fwisdom-quotes-for-2011%2F Before I met Ronald Pies, M.D., professor of psychiatry and lecturer on bioethics and humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University and professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, I did not know what a mensch was. I figured it has something to do with a short person. However, for Christmas this year I received a signed copy of Pies’s newest book, “Becoming a Mensch: Timeless Talmudic Ethics for Everyone,” and I decided that I would like to become a mensch, much like Dr. Pies, for whom I have the utmost respect. The American Heritage Dictionary defines mensch as “a person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose.” His book is a fascinating collection of personal case histories, often based on composites of ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4304918 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:22:12 +0100 4304918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233187&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhealthcare-diplomacy-and-a-night-at-the-white-house%2F2010.12.06 It’s not often you get invited to the White House. I had my chance this week, when I was a guest at the White House’s Hanukkah party. Now, when I say “guest,” I mean I was a guest of the president — of Hadassah, that is. My mother, Nancy Falchuk, is the president of one of the largest Jewish charitable organizations in the world, Hadassah. Her organization sponsors many different charitable activities, particularly related to healthcare (here she is in Jerusalem speaking at the ceremony lighting the walls of the Old City pink in honor of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.) One of the terms she uses a lot is “healthcare diplomacy” — the idea that part of the solution to intractable problems of war and peace is building bridges through something that we all share –... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233187 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:00:14 +0100 4233187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4183282&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLC5uUKIHJJg%2F By David RittgersI wrote an op-ed for National Review (Online) last week showing how conservative exploitation of the Supreme Court’s broad misreading of the Commerce Clause to reach intrastate medical marijuana facilitated liberal exploitation of the same to create the individual mandate in Obamacare. A principled stand on the limits of federal power does not begin and end with health care. The Commerce Clause is a double-edged sword: Conservatives cannot wield it in the drug war without making it a useful tool for advancing progressive visions of federal power. I’m happy to see Barton Hinkle, winner of the 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, pick up on my writing and drive the point home in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch: So far, many conservatives outraged over Obamacare do not se... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4183282 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:18:56 +0100 4183282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133681&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fen7NrqAhQxg%2F By Chris EdwardsCongratulations to the wave of Republicans who successfully ran on promises to tackle rising government debt and cut the hugely bloated federal budget. On the campaign trail, most candidates were not very specific about how they would cut the budget, but when they come to Washington they will be looking for good reform targets. Newcomers to Congress can find a wealth of budget-cutting ideas in recent plans by various D.C. think tanks: At the Heritage Foundation, Brian Riedl has come up with $343 billion in proposed annual cuts. At the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Bill Galston and Maya MacGuineas have proposed $400 billion in annual cuts. Esquire magazine assembled four former senators who came up with $476 billion in annual cuts. The National Taxpayers Union... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133681 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:55:54 +0100 4133681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086252&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHbln7YmKmyk%2F By Tim LynchOver at the Huffington Post,  I scrutinize a recent Legal Memorandum published by the Heritage Foundation on the Prop. 19 ballot initiative. Here is an excerpt: The Heritage memorandum claims that if Prop 19 were approved, it would conflict with the federal criminal statute, the Controlled Substances Act and thus “invite litigation that would almost certainly result in [Prop 19] being struck down” as unconstitutional. This legal claim is dead wrong. While it is true that the supremacy clause of the Constitution makes it clear that federal law will override a conflicting state law, that clause simply has no application here. The federal law on marijuana remains in force, but that does not mean that a state government is under any obligation to assist the feds. As th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086252 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:04:25 +0100 4086252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082074&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FdLUGN4XrWDA%2F By Christopher PrebleThere has been an on-going discussion recently about the Tea Party’s foreign policy views and how this might influence the upcoming election and new members of Congress.  In an essay at the Daily Caller last week, the Heritage Foundation’s Jim Carafano addressed this question and the claim that the new “Defending Defense” initiative— led by Heritiage, AEI, and the Foreign Policy Initiative—is aimed at co-opting the Tea Party movement (for more on the substance, or lack thereof, of “Defending Defense,” see Justin Logan’s response here). Over at The Skeptics blog, I take issue with Carafano’s assessment of the Tea Party’s foreign policy views: With respect to Carafano’s assessment of the Tea Partiers’s views on foreign policy and milita... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082074 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:40:32 +0100 4082074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993870&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FyTZ_Dn2_gaw%2F By Tad DeHavenThe Government Accountability Office released Congressional testimony this week looking at Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. TANF, which replaced unrestricted welfare in 1996, has reduced welfare rolls and encouraged recipients to obtain work. Unfortunately, TANF’s goals have been undermined. The GAO notes that “work participation rates … do not appear to be achieving the intended purpose of encouraging states to engage specified proportions of TANF adults in work activities.” States are required to have at least 50 percent of eligible TANF recipients from single parent families participating in work activities. However, states are given various credits and exemptions that significantly reduce the number of recipients required to work. As a result, only about 3... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993870 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:06:25 +0100 3993870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3848862&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfLm7na9dDio%2F By Jason KuznickiIn the years since September 11, 2001, the secret digital surveillance state has grown enormously. Given heightened security measures, heightened anxiety, and cheaper-than-ever data collection and storage, such growth was perhaps inevitable. But what are the proper limits on the secret collection of information? Where do our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties stand in this new era? Do the federal government’s increased powers of surveillance even accomplish the security tasks at hand? Constitutional lawyer and columnist Glenn Greenwald argues in this month’s Cato Unbound that the digital surveillance state is out of control. It’s also failed to deliver on its promises of greater security. Rather than helping to find the needle in the haystack, we have on... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3848862 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:55:07 +0100 3848862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3665959&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_1D6SgH6YJw%2F By David RittgersThe Heritage Foundation and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) made a stir by announcing their joint report, Without Intent: How Congress is Eroding the Criminal Intent Requirement in Federal Law. The report highlights the growth of federal criminal provisions in the 109th Congress. Many criminal statutes are drafted without the traditional requirement of criminal intent. When there is no requirement that the government prove you “willfully” or “knowingly” broke the law, mistakes are treated the same as intentional criminality. Some laws are written so broadly that it is impossible for anyone to know what conduct is illegal. Criminal provisions are included in statutes that are never reviewed by the judiciary committees of either chamber of Co... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3665959 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:30:37 +0100 3665959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3644753&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXaUN0TC_Smg%2F By David RittgersQuinn Hillyer has an excellent piece at the Washington Times highlighting the simultaneously farcical and frightening use of armed agents in enforcing suspected regulatory violations. ”The government,” wrote 50-year-old Denise Simon, “is too big to fight.” With those words, in a note to her 17-year-old son, Adam, she explained why she was committing suicide (via carbon monoxide) three days after 10 visibly armed IRS agents in bulletproof vests had stormed her home on Nov. 6, 2007, in search of evidence of tax evasion. Her 10-year-old daughter, Rachel, was there with Simon when the agents stormed in. “I cannot live in terror of being accused of things I did not do,” she wrote to Adam. To the rest of the world, in a separate suicide note, ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3644753 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:15:29 +0100 3644753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3577386&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fmvnx1vOBDkY%2F This report is indicative of a broad effort developing across the political spectrum to fix a federal criminal code that has become disconnected from traditional notions of punishing blameworthy conduct. Northwestern Law’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth held its 2009 Judicial Symposium on Criminalization of Corporate Conduct. The Heritage Foundation is hosting an event highlighting the findings of Without Intent on Monday, May 24 that can also be viewed online. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3577386 Tue, 18 May 2010 18:34:19 +0100 3577386 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519710&cid=t_155178_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F4B6g7P-pE6M%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that that Qforma, which traffics in analytics and predictive modeling, hired Judy Stein as director of client services. She most recently worked as a senior manager at GE Healthcare’s Performance Solutions unit, where s... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519710 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:56:30 +0100 3519710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508174&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGd0Qo8ejPZU%2F By David BoazIt was a good idea to get science and democracy from the ancient Greeks. It’s not such a good idea to get fiscal policy from the modern Greeks. But that’s the way we’re headed. Greece has a budget deficit of 13.6 percent. We’re not in that league — ours is only 10.6 percent, the highest level since 1945. Greece has a public debt of 113 percent of GDP. We’re not there yet. But the 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports show the combined unfunded liability of these two programs has reached nearly $107 trillion. Under President Obama’s budget, debt held by the public would grow from $7.5 trillion (53 percent of GDP) at the end of 2009 to $20.3 trillion (90 percent of GDP) at the end of 2020. It could rise to 215 percent of GDP in 30 year... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508174 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:13:47 +0100 3508174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463583&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1zKnBc3aJqQ%2F By David BoazBoth the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have just run major stories on presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s difficulties in getting people to understand the difference between his Massachusetts universal-health-care plan, which featured an individual mandate, subsidies, and forbidding insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi plan, which features an individual mandate, subsidies, and forbidding insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions. President Obama is putting Romney on the spot by telling Matt Lauer that his bill is similar to Romney’s. Daniel Gross of Newsweek recommends that Obama hire Romney — someone who has management experience, no current job, and “relevant e... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463583 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:17:01 +0100 3463583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239554&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FI0Kos49r1FA%2F By Michael F. Cannon"Father of the Individual Mandate" Mitt Romney The former nickname came from National Journal or The Wall Street Journal, I’m not sure which.  The latter nickname comes from Institute for Health Freedom president Sue Blevins. See here for details on an upcoming event in Dallas where Goodman’s National Center for Policy Analysis will play host to Romney. It should be an interesting event.  With all 40 Republican members of the U.S. Senate, including moderates like Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), voting to declare an individual mandate unconstitutional…with 35 states moving legislation to block an individual mandate…with the Heritage Foundation rebuking an individual mandate…and with Virginia’s Democratically controlled Senate ap... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239554 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:52:45 +0100 3239554 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189128&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgRXMI4golX4%2F By Justin LoganSteve Hynd at Newshoggers looks at Heritage’s recent work on Iran and observes that it sure seems like they’re prepared for war.  James Phillips says the Israelis may attack Iran but we shouldn’t try to stop them.  Phillips notes uncritically Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s characterization of the Iranian state as a “a messianic apocalyptic cult” and points out that while the United States “has the advantage of being geographically further away from Iran than Israel and thus less vulnerable to an Iranian nuclear attack … it must be sensitive to its ally’s security perspective.” Therefore we should accede to an Israeli preventive strike and prepare for the consequences.  What’s odd about Phillips’ piec... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189128 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:29:39 +0100 3189128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3182167&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgRXMI4golX4%2F By Justin LoganSteve Hynd at Newshoggers looks at Heritage’s recent work on Iran and observes that it sure seems like they’re prepared for war.  James Phillips says the Israelis may attack Iran but we shouldn’t try to stop them.  Phillips notes uncritically Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s characterization of the Iranian state as a “a messianic apocalyptic cult” and points out that while the United States “has the advantage of being geographically further away from Iran than Israel and thus less vulnerable to an Iranian nuclear attack … it must be sensitive to its ally’s security perspective.” Therefore we should accede to an Israeli preventive strike and prepare for the consequences.  What’s odd about Phillips’ piec... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3182167 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:29:39 +0100 3182167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3175859&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Freyxh_milp0%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonA day after it was released, here’s a roundup of how the mainstream media are covering the HHS study showing that America’s $100 billion plus investment in Head Start is a failure: [...crickets...] Nada. Zilch. Rien du tout, mes amis. That’s based on a Google News search for ["Head Start" study]. The only media organs to touch on this topic so far have been blogs: Jay Greene’s, The Heritage Foundation’s, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the one you’re reading right now. Okay. There was one exception. According to Google News, one non-blog — with a print version no less — covered this story so far. The NY Times? The Washington Post? Nope: The World, a Christian news magazine. And they actually did their homework, l... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3175859 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:39:51 +0100 3175859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3171874&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Freyxh_milp0%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonA day after it was released, here’s a roundup of how the mainstream media are covering the HHS study showing that America’s $100 billion plus investment in Head Start is a failure: [...crickets...] Nada. Zilch. Rien du tout, mes amis. That’s based on a Google News search for ["Head Start" study]. The only media organs to touch on this topic so far have been blogs: Jay Greene’s, The Heritage Foundation’s, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the one you’re reading right now. Okay. There was one exception. According to Google News, one non-blog–with a print version no less–covered this story so far. The NY Times? The Washington Post? Nope: The World, a Christian news magazine. And they actually did their homework, linki... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3171874 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:39:51 +0100 3171874 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149035&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHJ6m6MkLGB4%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonAccording to sources within HHS cited by Heritages’ Dan Lips, a congressionally mandated report on the persistence of academic effects from the federal Head Start program was completed in draft form in 2008, but, nearly two years later, has not seen the light of day. A further follow-up report, to have been released in 2009 and covering persistence of effects through the 3rd grade, has also failed to materialized. Lips’ sources say the draft they saw in ‘08 showed no lasting effects. This timeline meshes with what I was told in a July, 2008 e-mail exchange with a researcher familiar with the studies. The 1st grade report was indeed expected to be completed that summer — one and a half years ago. So where is it? Could it be, as Lips’ source... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149035 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:11:53 +0100 3149035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3079324&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F9Wm7DUG7tSI%2F By Ilya ShapiroYesterday the Heritage Foundation released a new paper on the unconstitutionality of the proposed health care mandate.  Think tanks aren’t normally in the habit of promoting their peer institutions’ work, but this paper is incredibly timely and its lead author is Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett.  You really should go read it. Interestingly, at the event unveiling the paper, Eugene Volokh (of UCLA Law School and the Volokh Conspiracy blog) at one point wanted to quote the Constitution and realized he wasn’t carrying one! Eugene asked if anyone had a Heritage Constitution.  Former Attorney General Ed Meese, now chairman of Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, saved the day by passing Eugene his… handy, dandy, Washington Post-bestsel... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3079324 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:16:36 +0100 3079324 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939275&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpYOEzr0p1dU%2F How Washington’s plans may result in even higher executive pay. “In 1993, Congress intervened in corporate compensation and messed things up. Now it’s the White House’s turn.” The case for allowing insider trading: “Want to keep companies honest, make the markets work more efficiently and encourage investors to diversify? Let insiders buy and sell.” Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act, Round III: “In hindsight, did Congress and the president react too hastily in 2001 by passing the Patriot Act just weeks after the 9/11 attacks?” Instead of fixing the Patriot Act, President Obama is protecting it. Twenty years later: Why the Berlin Wall fell. Podcast: “Financial Privacy and Freedom” featuring Prince Michael of Liech... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939275 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:20 +0100 2939275 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923235&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLi5cZ114Bhc%2F Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act, Round II. Today’s topic: “Where are the demonstrated examples of abuses of liberties because of the Patriot Act? Are there any provisions of the law that civil libertarians would find acceptable?” Comparing the Great Depression to the current recession: Did we not learn anything? Re-examining the U.S. alliance with Japan: “The current relationship remains trapped in a world that no longer exists.” The human cost of delayed economic reform in India: “With earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 million more Indians would have become literate, and 109 million more people would have risen above the poverty line.” How the free market can save health care. Podcast: What we shou... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923235 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:48:46 +0100 2923235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2920162&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQcfvM3KlUm0%2F A few things to consider before comparing Vietnam to Afghanistan. Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act. When it comes to energy policy, most conservatives toss free-market ideas aside. When your only choice is to “be a good victim”: Man shoots two people to death in San Francisco while police stand by. Podcast: “Could the Fed Have Foreseen Our Financial Fiasco?“ (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2920162 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:26:16 +0100 2920162 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916087&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTPvWm96HK58%2F I’m late to the pile-on because I’m a bad American, and I don’t watch enough football, but not quite two weeks ago, President Obama managed to politicize what for many is a hallowed Monday night ritual. In the New York Post, the paper of record for those of us who grew up in one of the only red counties on the Jersey Shore, Kyle Smith notes that Obama’s ostensible purpose for inserting himself into Monday Night Football was to proclaim Hispanic Heritage Month, but the president put this in as well: Our nation faces extraordinary challenges right now, and our ability to tackle them will depend on our willingness to recognize that we’re all in this together, that we each have an obligation to give back to our communities, and we all have a stake in the future of thi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916087 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:54 +0100 2916087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2886419&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYhSpxHyfx6k%2F Here’s your weekly round up of bloggers who are writing about Cato research, analysis and commentary: United Liberty editor Jason Pye discusses Cato’s new site, DownsizingGovernment.org. Scott Hinrichs quotes Cato senior fellow Tom Palmer in a post on the relationship between governments and the people. Below the Beltway’s Doug Mataconis and Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent post Cato’s new video on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. At the Real Clear World Compass Blog, Greg Scoblete quotes Justin Logan on Afghanistan. Harry Waisbren of Get Fisa Right and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald discuss Julian Sanchez’s video on Fox’s coverage of the Patriot Act. Heritage’s Gerrit Lansing interviews David Goldhill during a Cato Hill Briefing, &... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2886419 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:17:47 +0100 2886419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820205&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FiGD2fKS-X2A%2F For a fair and authoritative (and did I mention favorable?) assessment of my new Cato book, Mad about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization, you can read William H. Peterson’s review in today’s Washington Times. Dr. Peterson is an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation and the Ludwig von Mises Institute who holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York City University. In his review he writes: Daniel Griswold’s tour de force explores, reasons and documents how import competition benefits the American consumer, seeing him move ahead toward greater peace incentives, lower real prices, more choices, better quality. Mr. Griswold also tracks how the big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Best Buy deliver the world’s goods mostly by sea via mill... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820205 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:51:30 +0100 2820205 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793135&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F9vScWlpi7wk%2F The Obama administration is currently revising detainee procedures in Afghanistan. Bagram Airfield, located north of Kabul, is home for roughly 600 detainees. The Department of Defense plans to institute new review boards patterned on the ones at Guantanamo Bay, allowing detainees to challenge the basis of their detention and present evidence supporting their release. The Bagram Theater Internment Facility has long used Unlawful Enemy Combatant Review Boards to determine who should remain in custody. These boards provided minimal process and, consequently, minimal ability to determine if the detainees were militants or intelligence operatives fighting the government. The detainee was not allowed to attend the hearing. The shift in policy is an improvement, but a better model has been propo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793135 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:40:58 +0100 2793135 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2748118&cid=t_155178_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F08%2F30%2Fto-the-editor-perth-courier%2F Thanks for your article on Andrea Raymond’s work. I look forward to a renewed commitment to heritage conservation in Perth in the spirit of Glenn Crain and others. During a recent picture-taking tour of the always photogenic downtown I noticed that the Scotiabank branch on Foster Street (pictured) stands out for [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2748118 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:42:43 +0100 2748118 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2634350&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FwuzaidfTLyY%2F There’s lots of outrage in the blogosphere over revelations that some of the biggest recipients of the federal government’s $700 billion TARP bailout have been spending money on lobbyists. Good point. It’s bad enough to have our tax money taken and given to banks whose mistakes should have caused them to fail. It’s adding insult to injury when they use our money — or some “other” money; money is fungible — to lobby our representatives in Congress, perhaps for even more money. Get taxpayers’ money, hire lobbyists, get more taxpayers’ money. Nice work if you can get it. But the outrage about the banks’ lobbying is a bit late. As far back as 1985, Cato published a book, Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Polit... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2634350 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:37:08 +0100 2634350 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2605949&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FY1Mxw-9cV5w%2F There may be no more vicious epithet from neoconservatives these days than “isolationist.”  One would think the term would mean something like xenophobic no-nothings who want to have nothing to do with the rest of the world.  No trade or immigration.  Little or no cultural exchange and political cooperation.  Autarchy all around. But no.  ”Isolationist” apparently means something quite different.  Never mind your views of the merits of international engagement.  If you don’t want to kill lots of foreigners in lots of foreign wars you are automatically considered to be an isolationist. President Bill Clinton called Republican legislators “isolationists” for not wanting to insert the U.S. military into the middle of a complex but strategic... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2605949 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:58:46 +0100 2605949 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2517206&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXZPaps-1-Nw%2F The Heritage Foundation has a chart up on its blog, showing defense spending as a percentage of gross domestic product and declaring that “Obama plan cuts defense spending to pre-9/11 levels.” This is a standard rhetorical device for defense hawks (see the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Mitt Romney and lots of others) so it’s worth pointing out that it’s misleading. The unfortunate truth is that Obama is increasing non-war defense spending this year and seems likely to increase it at least by inflation in the near future. It’s true that defense spending will probably decline as a percentage of GDP, assuming the economy recovers. But that’s because GDP grows. Ours is more than six times bigger than it was in 1950.  Meanwhile, we spend more on de... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2517206 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:09:59 +0100 2517206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389659&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjhwD7iG_CAc%2F The Heritage Foundation’s “The Foundry” blog has a post up called “Questions for Secretary Napolitano: Real ID.” Honest advocates on two sides of an issue can come to almost perfectly opposite views, and this provides an example, because I find the post confused, wrong, or misleading in nearly every respect. Let’s give it a brief fisking. Below, the language from the post is in italics, and my comments are in roman text: Does the Obama Administration support the implementation of the Real ID Act? (Hope not . . . .) Congress has passed two bills that set Real ID standards for driver’s licenses in all U.S. jurisdictions. REAL ID was a federal law that Congress passed in haste as an attachment to a military spending bill in early 2005. To me, “REAL ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389659 Wed, 06 May 2009 12:38:42 +0100 2389659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2255984&cid=t_155178_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FFIM2U2M1ou4%2F In the mythology of journalism, investigative reporters fall somewhere between archangels and demigods. They protect the public by exposing political deceit and corruption, burrowing relentlessly into the words and deeds of those in power, in search of the truth. And in the field of education, they are as numerous as leprechauns and unicorns. In education, “muckrakers,” as Teddy Roosevelt called them, are few and far between. There are, however, legions of mucksailors — reporters who glide over the surface of a story, seldom probing beneath the public statements of those in power to determine their truth or falsehood. Through my web browser window I can watch the sails of a vast muck navy. Consider the coverage of the battle over DC’s school voucher program. Democ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2255984 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:17:24 +0100 2255984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1322017&cid=t_155178_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F23%2Fobama-opens-the-discussion-of-race-in-america%2F Technically, we’re apolitical here at Psych Central, since mental health issues know no boundaries or political party lines. But we watched Senator Barack Obama’s speech this week on race, and were surprised to find such articulate thoughts espoused on the campaign trail. Like most Americans, we’ve become so accustomed to the mud-slinging and accusations from one political candidate to another, we don’t know what to say when someone actually speaks to us like fellow, intelligent and mature adults about a serious cultural issue like race. We found the conversation continued today over in an op-ed in The Boston Globe entitled, Bringing race to the forefront, by Sally Lehrman. She points to the psychological and sociological research done on race that suggests Obama&#... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1322017 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:55:19 +0100 1322017