Advice & Dissent

May10

The Toyota Hobgoblin, my piece in today's Philly Inquirer

'The whole aim of practical politics," wrote H.L. Mencken, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Last year's hobgoblin was swine flu. The President's Council of…Read More
May4

The NEW reason for fomenting pig flu panic

According to Reuters, the U.S. has 71 million unused H1N1 swine flu vaccine doses. And damned if it isn't determined to use up every last one, in order to reduce the embarrassment of throwing away so much of the expensive stuff. States and other providers should hang on to the…Read More
May1

Need access to full Nexis database for maybe 1 hour

I need access to the full Nexis database for probably one hour to search articles from the 1980s. Please help. [email protected]Read More
Apr29

Toyotas being recalled for LACK of acceleration!

Toyota is recalling about 50,000 2003 Sequoia SUVs to upgrade the software in the vehicle's electronic stability control. Without the upgrade, according to Consumer Reports, when the Sequoia accelerates from a stopped position, the system could activate at a low speed (about…Read More
Apr28

"Why the undying 'mystery' of Gulf War Syndrome must die," my NRO article

Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) is back in the news, thanks to a new study released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and so is the persistent effort to label it a "mystery." See, for example, the story by a HealthDay reporter headlined "Gulf War Syndrome Is Real, but Causes Unclear…Read More
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