Monday, August 5th, 2013
The Sooner State is leading the pack is the quest to make healthcare simpler and less expensive. Not content to wait for directions from above, Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Steve Lantier started a surgery center based on the simple idea of price honesty. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma posts their prices online, and they
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
MSNBC host Ari Melber, recently blamed the death of Detroit on the “Free Market.” One can only assume that Mr. Melber was simply reading the teleprompter and did not have the slightest idea what he was saying....
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Despised by some, deified by others, Ayn Rand is mostly known for her overly thick novels: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She also wrote a book outlining her philosophy called, The Virtue of Selfishness. It has provided...
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why...
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Apparently kids were pretty smart back in the day. At least at this Kentucky school, they were expected to know a bit more than ‘reading, writing, and rithmetic.’ Not only that, but I have it on good...
Monday, July 22nd, 2013
You might have noticed that for the past 50 years or so, the healthcare industry has been saying that saturated fat is bad. They’ve blamed it for heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s and so on. Meanwhile, the rates...
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Hard to believe it’s been nearly 30 years since The Terminator hit the theaters. Remember the opening scene where the humans are scurrying about, trying to avoid the flying drones above? Well, it looks like humanity is...
Saturday, July 20th, 2013
Andrew Claven gives a mirthful overview of Western History from the rise of theater in ancient Greece through Jesus’s failure to invent the lightbulb, right up till the present day. Sort of…
Friday, July 19th, 2013
I had my doubts that Bill Cosby actually said this, but it turns out that he really did at a speech he gave at the NAACP in 2004. As far as I know he has not been...
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Why do people lie? I never thought about it much, but this past week I was put to the test. I forced myself to bite my tongue and not speak what I believed to be true. There...
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
In the never-ending quest to make things affordable, I’ve decided to ‘go big’ and get a free Ferrari. I wouldn’t want to be called greedy, so therefore there will be free Ferraris for everyone. I suspect that...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Niels Finsen was 20 years old when the doctors told him that the lumps in his testes were metastatic. After a year of painful treatments, they said that it was hopeless; Niels had only six more months...
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
In a 1981 trial in Mobile, Alabama, a jury of his peers found Josephus Andersonan innocent of murdering a policeman. Ku Klux Klansman Benny Hays disagreed with the verdict. In a meeting held shortly after the trial...
Thursday, August 1st, 2013
From Radical to Realist
Greenpeace founder, Patrick Moore has been ‘born-again’ as a realistic environmentalist. He speaks about the founding of Greenpeace, how it went astray, and why he left. He highlights the difference between “ecology” which is a science, and...