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The new Irish foreign minister criticizes the organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in NY for excluding gay and lesbian groups.
Archive for March, 2011
March 17th, 2011
Borowitz: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said he is not worried how history will remember him “because if I have my way, there won’t be any history teachers.”
March 17th, 2011
How long will it be before Michele Bachmann becomes the “voice of reason” in the Republican Party?
March 17th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health and Medicine
A quiet case of streetcorner Medicaid rationing highlights the need for comparative effectiveness research.
March 16th, 2011
Category: Moral philosophy
The bravery and sacrifice of Japan’s responders deserves special notice.
March 15th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
I’m sure that Evan Bayh will perform some good works to give his other self-interested activities some patina of statesmanship. He’ll serve on charitable boards for some good causes. He’ll write the occasional wonky op-ed in the Washington Post, serve on a presidential commission or two. He’ll be one of the more courtly and civil [...]
March 14th, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act
Senator Hatch believes that the 1996 welfare reform provides a useful model for health reform. I’m beginning to believe that he doesn’t read my work.
March 13th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
I had breakfast yesterday with two colleagues, both of them actively interested in public affairs and both of them relatively heavy consumers of newspapers and television news. Neither of them had heard about the maltreatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning until the flap over P.J. Crowley’s statement. In light of all the non-events Faux News and [...]
Travel Broadens the Mind
I have been working with the London Metropolitan Police to reduce alcohol-involved violence. After I gave a talk with Deputy Mayor Malthouse at the London Drug and Alcohol Policy Forum, the organizers very thoughtfully gave me this gift from the archives. These truncheons were carried by bobbies from the Victorian Era until about 15 years [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
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