Unfortunately, I have been too busy to comment on Obama’s “historic” healthcare bill, up until now. Somehow, congratulating Obama on his first real achievement seems somewhat hypocritical, considering I think the bill is the usual socialist mix of paternalistic pseudo-concern and a distressing disregard of both taxpayer’s pockets and obvious consequences. The fight to reverse [...]

You can’t love on someone with a hammer. No, this is not a weird addition to the smacking debate, I am simply commenting on President Obama’s current tactics in the healthcare debate. At one point an understanding of a sorts had been reached with the health insurers lobby. The insurance companies accepted that health care [...]

I love watching Obama trying to throw his weight around and talk tough. It is a bit like watching Bambi try to savage a hunter. I’m not talking here about the dynamic hand-wringing that he is doing over the Iran situation, I’m talking about his plans for US Healthcare reform which he tried to sell [...]

The CDC has just announced the first swine flu death in the US – A 23 month old Texas child. No other details as yet. Add a Comment

The Centre for Disease Control in the US have declared a public health emergency over the swine flu potential epidemic/pandemic. They have confirmed eight cases in New York City, seven in California, two in Texas, two in Kansas, and one in Ohio, meaning this is substantially more widespread than originally thought. These are all properly confirmed [...]

I read with utter horror that psychologists and medical doctors were involved in the interrogation of captured terrorism suspect Abu Zubaida. Regardless of whether you consider the questioning of Zubaida to be torture or simply interrogation technique, there is no way it can be seen as anything but coercive. And medical people have no place in [...]

The Somali pirate situation is rapidly becoming absurd. Another four ships have been taken by the pirates, snatched from one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. And it is only a day after three Somali were shot dead in the rescue of a hostage. It is as if the pirates are thumbing their [...]