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To John, below - A thought for you to 'entertain': Are hr executive leaders who sell out the future of a corporation in order to meet the present criteria for their quarterly bonuses 'really about business'? - sustainable business that supports ALL constituents? (How about those executive leaders that spend so much time on the golf course instead of in front of their workers?) If you honestly considered the weight and tenor of all of my posts, Read More...

The extreme regulatory burden of the FDA is a chief driver of costs, so it is ironic that they would reject a drug using cost as a criterion. They have so little idea of how to decide on a career business operates that they convince themselves that high costs are because of greedy drug companies. But regulatory burden not only drives up costs, it also is driving the new trend of fewer pipeline drugs, and companies decide biotech is not a Read More...

What's needed is a 'universal law of attraction' health care plan. However, is would be based on other those of other industrialized nations that pay between 9.3% and 11.2% of their GDP on healthcare. Beneficiaries of plans that exceed the cost of a universal plan would be taxed on the difference. It is obvious that many people received far better care than those of other countries, so they will have to pay taxes on the difference. This includes Read More...

Why not do away with lethal injection altogether? Instead: (1) Only capital criminals convicted solely on direct evidence would be put to death. Those convicted on circumstantial evidence would receive life sentences, so long as they commit no additional capital offense while incarcerated. (2) Death row criminals would be dispatched by exactly the same means as their victims. This would be kind and usual, since the offender's fate would match Read More...

With all due respect, Herr Professor, you need to get out of the Ivy Tower and into the Real World. My meager Unemployment Check was not a disincentive to take a NON-existent job. It was my lifeline that kept me from digging deeper into my reserves. I've sold my house, I'm living month-to-month, while checking the openings several times daily. Despite a strong employment history, strong educational background and credentials, I have had five Read More...

James -- Are you implying that CA became heavily Democratic after the voters passed Proposition 187 in 1994? The evidence suggests otherwise: all of the crazed progressive liberals that infect our Congress were elected before then: Speaker Pelosi (1986) Rep. Pete Stark (1972) Rep. Henry Waxman (1974) Sen. Feinstein (1992) Sen. Boxer (1992) Not to mention that CA has not voted for a Republican for president since it voted for Bush 41 in 1988. Moreover, Read More...

I find it amazing that Zimbabwe is the only focus of the blood diamond issue. In fact the Kimberly Process is fundamentally flawed as it does not include cut & polished diamonds. Israel funnels some where in the region of 1 billion dollars into it's military apparatus from it's revenue in the cut & polished diamond industry. Israel is in workplace conflict with Palestine. They enforce the illegal blockade of Gaza by military means. There Read More...

Saul, You are correct when you say that cost overruns occur on both union and non-union constructions project healths. But, that misses the point. Owner mismanagement, incomplete and uncoordinated design documents, and contractor mismanagement all can result in unanticipated cost in any construction project. Still, that doesn't change the fact that, if all other things are equal, a construction project which is designated as a union only Read More...

My mother was an Irish immigrant to the U.S. in the early 1960s. She was determined that her two American-born children were not going to waste any advantage offered to them by this great country, particularly higher educational opportunities. In my cuture, it was assumed that children came out of the womb strong enough to have high professional goals set for them, to meet these goals and to be corrected when they failed to meet them. My Read More...

I am happy the wsj is continueing to cover this hidden epidemic. There are some great studies going on into this illness as there have been for the past 25 years. Unfortunately the over 4000 published studies showing abnormalities in this illness have largely gone ignored and have not been recognized by either the UK or US government agencies including the CDC. I am afraid there is no race to solve ME or CFS going on in the cientific community Read More...