Does Mayor Bloomberg Want To Leave A Legacy?
New York City schoolchildren start this fall’s classes at a cost to the taxpayers of $11,000 per pupil. They will eat more school lunches (800,000) than any institution except the armed forces and ride on more buses than the city’s public transportation system.
Continue reading →Dealing With The High Costs Of Health Care
The big health-care debate in Congress this summer was over the wrong issue. Instead of threatening to bankrupt Medicare by forcing the taxpayers to buy prescription drugs for seniors, Congress should relieve the taxpayers and paying-patients of the burden of providing hospital care for illegal aliens.
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Zero Tolerance On Illegal Drugs
Zero tolerance has become ridiculous when applied to little boys playing cops and robbers or drawing pictures of guns, but it’s sound and sensible when applied to illegal drugs.
Continue reading →Forced Drugging By Government
State governments and the federal courts are separately assuming the power to forcibly drug American citizens.
Continue reading →Secrecy is a Losing Ploy
Is the Era of Big Government Coming Back?
Having had to retreat from legislative attempts to establish a national ID card through Social Security numbers or unique health care identifiers, Congress seems to be trying a new tack to implement this wholly un-American idea.
Continue reading →Where Do Politicians Go In Their Afterlife?
The pharmaceutical corporations, whose generous political spending gives them unrivaled clout with public officials, now have big plans to capitalize on public fears after 9/11.
Continue reading →Security Starts at Our Borders
The Zogby poll reported September 16 that 77% of Americans do not think our government is doing enough to control our borders or screen foreign visitors.
Continue reading →Disease Attacks On Americans
The anthrax scare has made Americans suddenly and acutely very disease conscious. Until a few weeks ago, most Americans had never heard of anthrax, and worries about smallpox had been abandoned years ago.
Continue reading →MSAs Are The Solution
The Patients’ Bill of Rights has moved to the back burner on Capitol Hill because of priorities such as closing our wide-open borders and stopping visa approvals to terrorists. The Senate and House have passed different versions of the bill, which have yet to be resolved, but only the House bill (H.R. 2563) contains a provision that offers real hope to reform our health care system.
Continue reading →Follow The Money On Vaccines
Those who officially advise government agencies whether or not to force Americans to submit to vaccines should not be on the payroll of the corporations that profit from the government mandates.
Continue reading →Amnesty Puts Profound Questions on the Table
Perhaps one good result of President George W. Bush’s toying with the unpopular notion of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens is that Americans are starting to have a frank debate about the constitutional, cultural, social, language, moral, and economic questions involved.
Continue reading →Surprise Assault On Gun Ownership
A group called Doctors Against Handgun Injury is calling on doctors, including psychiatrists, to ask their patients nosy questions about their gun ownership.
Continue reading →Better Research About Drugs Needed
Our fight against illegal drugs is severely weakened by the common claim that marijuana (also called pot) is relatively harmless. Research on marijuana in the 1970s, supported by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), proved that pot is highly dangerous.
Continue reading →Americans Need a Tax Cut Now
The IRS tax collector, using the police power of the government, takes a big slice of your income while sweet-talking you with the lie that this organized theft is really an investment (even though it will rapidly vanish rather than grow).
Continue reading →What's At Stake In The New HHS Privacy Regs?
In earlier, simpler times, medical privacy was no problem. Your doctor recorded the date of your visit and his diagnosis and prescriptions in his inimitable illegible handwriting and put it safely in a manila folder where only he or his nurse would ever see it and nobody else could possibly read it.
Continue reading →FACT: The American people know a bad deal when they see one. The most recent data shows that around 6.5 million Americans paid $3 billion in penalties to the IRS rather than buy unaffordable Obamacare plans.