Month: May 2014

It’s true that Bill Clinton isn’t the most disciplined political spouse and that he caused problems for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. There are still some lingering bad feelings about it in the...

I don’t know why Jill Abramson was fired as managing editor of the New York Times. I don’t know whether or not she was compensated fairly. I don’t know if a man in the same circumstances would have lost his...

With news that San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro may soon be nominated as the next Secretary of Housing & Urban Affairs (HUD), I decided to take a look at a list of previous secretaries. It may be a non-prestigious cabinet...

Things are getting weird down in Mississippi. Some guy broke into the nursing home where Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife lives. She has dementia. He took pictures and posted them on his blog. He’s been arrested, and there...

In surveying the UHC systems in various countries back in 1999, the one that impressed me the most was Finland’s.  It was initiated later than those in other western European countries, the UK, and Japan.  ...