Big Tobacco fights back
Apparently political contributions from tobacco companies are causing consternation in California right now: The nation’s largest tobacco company has donated $50,000 to the Ventura County Republican...
View ArticleBartenders for McCain?
San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer complains about Healthy San Francisco surcharges still appearing on restaurant checks: I’m losing patience with the way restaurants are handling...
View ArticleThe problem of progressive arrogance
Rich Rodgers had a post at Blue Oregon this weekend lamenting the fact that some people stubbornly refuse to get on board with the public option for health insurance. He suggests that in the face of...
View ArticleShunning Mackey
I hadn’t planned on writing anything about John Mackey’s health care op/ed in the Wall Street Journal, but Radley’s response to the resulting boycott of Whole Foods is worth quoting: [...] I also think...
View ArticleTrade tips for benefits? No thanks!
The New York Times ran an op/ed today by Phoebe Damrosch suggesting that by doing away with tipping we could make waiters more professional and give them better health care. The piece is about 75%...
View ArticleHealth care reform’s unseen costs
Chad Wilcox nicely sums up why many libertarians lament the passage of the health care reform bill: A libertarian professor I know once said he believed that libertarianism’s greatest intellectual...
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