Some further contemplations of mine regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. How has the US performed during the pandemic? When I first shared a series of contemplations in March 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, I noted David Harsanyi’s prediction that the United States would be the best place to ride it out. This was […]
Remembering Joyce
Jennifer knew her as Mom, Penelope and Harrison knew her as Granny, while I and many others knew her as Joyce. She left us in June having lived with Alzheimer’s for many years. We’ve been thinking of her a lot. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother and more. Over the past 15 years or so […]
US healthcare system comes to aid of another Kiwi
Headline in the New Zealand Herald: Rare health condition: Government to pay for Melody Klein Ovink’s life-saving US surgery This story strikes home for me because this woman is going through the same thing my Uncle Charles went through 70 years ago. Like this girl, my uncle had a condition New Zealand’s universal healthcare system […]
What cut-throat free market?
The free market is often characterized by some as a Darwinian or Hunger Games-style survival of the fittest competition. But that’s seldom true. Take the Wall Street Journal headline this week: Sanofi to Help Make Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine for U.S. As the story explains, Sanofi has signed up to make as many as 200 million […]
Roger Kerr RIP
(Published in the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary on 8 November 2011) By Mary Kissel The Reagan revolution wasn’t an isolated movement, but one that was echoed from the shores of Britain to as far away as the Antipodes. One of the great stalwarts of that free-market agenda, Roger Kerr, passed away last month in […]
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