Monday, January 25, 2016

Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All And Why Single-Payer Generally Doesn't Work So Well

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Right before the Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders released his latest bombshell of a policy alternative: Medicare for All , wh...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Pirke Avot 3:12: Actions Are More Powerful Than Words....And Wisdom

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Talk is cheap ...... well, not quite. I find that talk is cheap when it isn't backed up by anything. Anyone can run their mouth. You kno...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Would the Supreme Court Quashing Compulsory Union Dues Be Doing Us a Favor?

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Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association . The case is focused on th...
Friday, January 15, 2016

It's More Than a Safe Bet That State Lotteries Bring About Considerable Costs

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A couple of days ago was the announcement of the lottery numbers for the Powerball game. That jackpot of $1.5B  was the largest jackpot  in ...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

How Much Do Background Checks Help With Preventing Mass Shootings?

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Last week, President Obama gave a speech on gun control in response to dealing with the gun violence that takes place in the United States ...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Obamacare Healthcare Exchanges Two Years Later: Why the Affordable Care Act is Unaffordable

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While Obamacare was signed into law back in 2010, the major provisions of Obamacare, including the healthcare exchanges, took into effect ap...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Parsha Shemot: How True Fear and Reverence of G-d Shape Religious Behavior

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Infanticide is a deeply disturbing act, all the more so when it is done en masse . However, this is the sort of depravity that the Pharaoh c...