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Monday, December 12, 2016
Oil Pipelines and the Rule of Law
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I saw quite a lot of cheering that Obama’s administration halted construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. And I’ve heard some moaning t...
Update on Drug Poisoning Data for 2015
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The CDC just recently released the 2015 mortality data, so I thought it would be good to do an update of some previous posts that used the ...
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Legal Status is *NOT* the Limiting Factor in Drug Use
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Some people are skeptical of drug legalization. They worry that legalizing certain substances will open up the flood gates and new addicts ...
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Bernie Sanders Is No Good Guy
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The election is over, but I feel I need to say something about Bernie Sanders. I want to push back on something I kept hearing during the p...
Courting the Libertarian Vote
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In the 2012 and 2016 elections, I saw a lot of noise being made about the third-party voters being “spoilers.” As in, we weirdos who voted ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
How to Cover Pre-Existing Conditions
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The concept of a “pre-existing condition” misses the point. As a property and casualty actuary, every time I hear it I think, "If acqu...
Thomas Sowell on Different Meanings of the Word "Racism"
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This passage is from Race and Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell. Pages 154-155: One of the most used and least defined words in t...
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