Tag Archives: Therapeutic State

Legs Broken, Crutches Distributed

1st
Sep. × ’12

One of the benefits of Obamacare, apparently – as you’ll learn from this piece, if you can make it past “people like you and I” – is that it enables this: Tufts Medical Center in Massachusetts – along with their physician group and a company which owns and operates two hospitals in the region – [...]

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Hell Is For Children

24th
May. × ’12

The New York State report found students as young as nine years old subjected to sudden, painful, repeated electric shocks for ‘refusing to follow staff directions’, ‘failing to maintain a neat appearance’, “stopping work for more than ten seconds”, “getting out of seat”, “interrupting others”, “nagging”, ‘swearing’, ‘whispering’ and ‘slouching in chair’, and ‘‘moving conversation [...]

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 18

16th
Sep. × ’11

My BHL post on Ron Paul’s healthcare answer is receiving favourable comment from both Andrew Sullivan and the National Review, and less favourable comment from Matt Yglesias. (CHT Matt Zwolinski.) I posted the following comment at Yglesias’s blog: This response is pretty drastically missing my point. Suppose there are two possible ways of helping a [...]

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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 17

14th
Sep. × ’11

I have a new post up at BHL: The Libertarian Three-Step Program. It addresses good and bad ways of answering the healthcare question that Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul.

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An Ambiguous Dystopia

8th
Jul. × ’11

Going through old papers I find this gem from my Randian past: a very short sf story that I wrote in (but not for) college, titled “Under the Violet Sun.” Some of my stories actually had plots (hopefully I’ll dig them up eventually). This one, not so much.

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The Atrocity of Hope, Part 13

1st
May. × ’11

Charles covers it.

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