6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student
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Yes – I can tie all 4 together. Friedman's column today says the nation who gets to the green technologies first – wins rights to this century. A friend of mine who helps start-ups succeed told me yesterday that for
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John Leo, in this week's USNEWS, decrys a full page ad by DEFCON in the New York Times which names James Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson as America's most influential stem cell scientists. Mr. Leo says the efforts by
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Brother Blankenhorn posts a piece on a South African Linuxe entrepreneur talking about Open Source and how the nature of that model supports creation of local jobs. Amen. Get an education, find a nice place to raise a family, any
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Story in AJC tells how Cobb COunty schools will miss out on $250,000 in lower phone costs because an answer from a company bidding on services got "eaten" by the anti-spam software. The real story here is how government loses
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Lots of opinionating going on about the ruling by Judge Constance Russell on the single-sex marriage amendment. Only one dared to print what the State Constitution says about amending the Constitution – Mr. McKee of Marietta. Meanwhile, the Augusta Chronicle
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The headlines on the KIA plant for West Georgia remind me of an old George and Gracie Burns routine where Gracie describes how her brother got run over by a truck. Seems he was wearing two pairs of pants and
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Jim Wooten’s editorial today briefly mentions “social contract” – which is one of the center principles that our Founding Fathers based this country’s governance upon. We, all of us, need to remember it’s all about us and not so much
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Here, in a concise nutshell found in Tom Friedman's column today, is how the economy will work this century: Mr. Raju said: "We told ourselves: if business process outsourcing can be done from cities in India to support cities in
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This morning's editorial in the Macon Telegraph unveils the not-so-secret strategy for this fall: A similar same-sex amendment in Louisiana, which also has a single-subject requirement, had already been struck down by a state court prior to Georgia's vote. So,
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Coming to a legislature near you – –August 9 A special Session to correct the wrong committed 2 years ago (at your expense)- unless those unrighteous Supreme Court justices correct the wrong of the Superior Court Judge who dared to
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