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Universal Health Care — It’s Addictive
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Opponents of President Obama's health care legislation were wise to attack it preemptively in the courts on constitutional grounds. If they hadn't attacked now, they would've learned that universal health care systems – sometimes a hybrid of public and private and sometimes single-payer national systems – are wildly popular in other countries. So popular that [...]
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Obama and Energy: What He Can and Can’t Do
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When the Obama administration seeks to explain its oil policy, it changes the subject mid-sentence. The most frequent practitioner of this verbal contortion is the president's press secretary, Jay Carney. It is as though he's a magician who has promised to pull a live rabbit from his top hat. This conjurer stands before his [...]
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Mass-Transit Enthusiasts: Get on the Bus
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Even railroad fanatics like me have to admit that the future of passenger transportation by rail, particularly urban commuter rail, is pretty well frozen where it is. New rail – even light rail, an idealistic indulgence – is doomed by high costs, lack of appropriate track, and political squabbling. New subways, the elegant way [...]
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The Politicos Know for Sure Where the Oil Is
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Lemuel Gulliver is back! You remember him – he’s the hero of “Gulliver’s Travels,” a satire written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. Many adventures befall Gulliver, but the one most remembered is that he's captured and pinned down with innumerable strings by the tiny Lilliputians. By their standards, he was a giant, but [...]
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The Technological Revolution So Great We Forget It
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What are the achievements of Western civilization? The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the spread of democracy and a free press tower on the intellectual side of the ledger. But they didn't happen in a vacuum; they needed coincidental technological advances. The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450, made the [...]
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