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CEO Salaries and Pharmaceutical Costs

pjmedia.com

by Victor Davis Hanson

November 19, 2011

How much do CEO and other top exec salaries add to the cost of drugs?

I had a conversation recently with someone who was quite upset about how much money pharmaceutical companies spend on CEO compensation - at a time when many people are not able to afford necessary medicines. While I do not support restricting or limiting compensation, I also often scratch my head and ask, "Does it really make sense for a corporation to give someone tens of millions a year to run a company?" Beyond a certain point, there's no useful way to spend the extra money.

More Tricks than Treats in Democrats' Deficit Reduction Plan

pjmedia.com

by Victor Davis Hanson

October 26, 2011

A Kabuki dance that accomplishes nothing substantive.

The Democrats are getting into the spirit of the season and putting out a deficit reduction plan just in time for Halloween. This isn't surprising. After all, congressmen are, at bottom, a lot like little kids. They are irresponsible, spoiled rotten by perks, oblivious to the consequences of their actions, and whine when they don't get their way. This makes Halloween the perfect time to issue a deficit reduction plan that doesn't have a ghost of a chance of passage, while scaring the heebie-jeebies out of seniors with proposed cuts in Medicare benefits.

Works and Days - The Great Obama Catharsis

Pajamas Media

by Victor Davis Hanson

September 19, 2011

Barack Obama has done the United States a great, though unforeseen, favor.

He has brought to light, as no one else could, many of the pernicious assumptions of our culture from the last half-century. He turned theory and "what ifs" into fact for all America to see, experience, and, yes, suffer through. The Years of Wandering...

Works and Days: Atlas Is Sorta Shrugging

Pajamas Media

by Victor Davis Hanson

August 18, 2011

The president just concluded a frenzied "jobs" bus tour to explain why unemployment is at 9.1% - after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in stimulus the last three years.

You know the usual suspects responsible for our, not his, malaise: George Bush did it; the Republican obstructionists in the Congress who were wary of approving another $2 trillion in debt did it; the Tea Party did it; Standard and Poor's did it; the Japanese earthquake did it; the Japanese tsunami and nuclear accidents did it; the Middle East unrest did it; the European debt crisis did it; new technology like ATM machines did it. Obama has cited these culprits and many more - though never either himself or his advisors who took a weak recovery and turned it into a near recession.

Schools use new software to monitor students' social media posts

eagnews.org

by Victor Skinner

August 19, 2014

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. - Officials in western Maryland's Washington County schools will be tracking students' social media activity while at school using new software that scans for keywords like "kill" or "bomb."

The district is using software called Social Sentinel that employs "geofencing" protocol to determine when students are on school grounds and scans their Twitter, Facebook and other social media posts for evidence of violent threats, harassment, drug or alcohol use, or similarly dangerous language, WJLA television station reports.

Homeschooled former egg farmer elected to represent 'all options' on Ohio board of ed

eagnews.org

by Victor Skinner

December 4, 2012

ROCK CREEK, Ohio - After stinging election defeats for the education reform movement in Idaho, Indiana, Michigan and other states, a lot of supporters are left searching for an inspiring story to rejuvenate their spirits.

Meet Sarah Fowler. The 24-year-old former egg farmer was homeschooled her entire life by her parents in rural northeast Ohio. The humble girl-next-door recognized the state's education system needed a different kind of leadership, and mounted an amazing last-minute, 92-day campaign for a vacant seat on the state board of education.

Children in foster care of prostitute

The Australian

by Victoria Laurie

February 20, 2009

CHILD protection authorities in Western Australia were warned last May that a foster carer of four children was working as a prostitute, gambling heavily and using her taxpayer-supplied vehicle to drive to work at a suburban brothel.

But nine months later, the Department for Child Protection has not removed the four children, who still live in the woman's house with a male lodger, who sleeps in a queen-size bed in the living room. The woman's brother, who has convictions for serious criminal offences, also stayed at her house until a departmental officer told the woman he had to leave.

'Global warming has been on pause for 19 years': Study reveals Earth's temperature has remained almost CONSTANT since 1995

dailymail.co.uk

by Victoria Woollaston

July 7, 2015

Since the turn of the century, there has been little increase in the average temperature of the Earth's surface, new research claims. Previous studies claimed this hiatus has lasted for 15 years.

In his recent paper, Professor Ross McKitrick from the University of Guelph in Canada studied average land and ocean temperatures from the Hadcrut4 temperature series, dating back to 1850. Hadcrut4 is a monthly record of temperature readings created by the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office, and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

Zombies: How the Left Captured Academia, the Media, and Other Organizations

PJ Media

by Vik Rubenfeld

September 5, 2012

Alinsky-style behavior in the workplace itself may have been the key.

Recent studies have confirmed that American universities have become bigoted and biased against the expression of conservative views. One new study documents bias against the expression of conservative views among social and personality psychologists, including those at universities...

Copy, right?

thelibertarianrepublic.com

by Vincent Mamo

January 5, 2013

Are copyright laws necessary or are they anti-capitalistic?

Intellectual property is a divisive issue amongst those of us who consider ourselves to be part of the liberty movement. Even amongst the larger parties, differences in opinions can have consequences. In general, intellectual property encompasses patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. Specifically, in regards to copyright, some anarcho-capitalists, such as my long time friend Danny D'Amico, argue that copyrights are a hindrance on productivity. Copyrighted works are not consumed, but can be infinitely copied without losing any value. By restricting the use of the copyrighted information, the government is negatively impacting the free exchange of rationale actors in a marketplace. One of most pointed-to anecdotes is that of the fashion industry. There, the lack of any kind of protection requires each fashion designer to constantly stay on the bleeding edge of fashion. Fashionistas are constantly seeking the "latest fashion" from high level designers. There is no need for government intervention there, so why not in other areas?

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