The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the IPCC is bizarre at best: whatever one's views of their work and their cause, it is difficult in the extreme to make the case that they have somehow advanced peace per se. (Much more appropriate would have been the underrecognized John Garang.) This isn't the first time the Nobel committee has gone off the rails, of course -- remember the endorsement of anticapitalist greenie Wangari Muta Maathai? -- but it does lend credence to the idea that the award is now merely a tactical expression of political sympathies, rather than a meaningful honor for men of peace. Read more
Reagan-era advisor and creator of the “Laffer curve” in economic theory Art Laffer gave the keynote address at the Pacific Research Institute’s annual dinner gala tonight in San Francisco. During a substanative tutorial on economic theory, taxation and government monetary policy Laffer, during the portion of the program that involved audience questions, called governor-elect Jerry Brown “this best governor California ever had” because of his economic policies. Read more
Greg Scandlen has sounded a warning about government-dictated health IT. He points to a scholarly article which demonstrates that health IT can make delivering medical care more dangerous than otherwise. Mr. Scandlen points out that vendors of health IT are hungry for government hand-outs, which will be significant under Obamacare. Read more
Recently, president of the Alabama Association for Justice Bob Prince criticized the Pacific Research Institute in some Alabama newspapers ("Just ending in ‘pants’ suit," Gadsden Times, June 27 and "The system works" Times Daily, June 27). In doing so, Bob Prince accidentally made some very revealing assertions about how he thinks the American legal system should work.
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