COMPLETE LIBERTY

"Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins, were more widely prescribed, research suggests. The study of 175,000 patients, in the Lancet, said even very low-risk patients benefited from the medication. The Oxford researchers says the NHS should consider giving statins to healthy people. ... However, statins have been linked to side-effects such as kidney failure." [editor's note: Yep, and other sources indicate they don't even work that well in those who've had heart-attacks; this is so clearly a Big Pharma-front study - SAT] (05/17/12)

"Fairness, as envisioned by President Obama and his liberal followers, is the greatest appeal of their philosophy. In a perfect world it seems right that everyone should be safe, secure and comfortable. It seems wrong for some to have so much while others get by with so little. Sadly, however, there is no simple or practical solution that exists in the real world that can assure that everyone would contribute their fair share to the best of their ability." [editor's note: The only "fair share" is the one we give willingly, from our own hearts; heck, even Jesus pointed that out! - SAT] (05/16/12)

"Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the rising cost of higher education. College costs have strongly outpaced the inflation rate, and the debt students are racking up is crippling. So what is driving this process and what consequences does it have for students? I have some thoughts below, informed by Austrian economics." (05/17/12)

"America’s minorities are slowly becoming the majority. For the first time, more than half of children in the United States under the age of 1 are members of minority groups, the US Census Bureau reported in data released early Thursday. The agency’s estimates show that as of July 2011, 50.4 percent of the nation’s under-1 babies were minorities (considered anyone who is not non-Hispanic, single-race white). That is up from 49.5 percent in the 2010 Census." [editor's note: Is this the depth to which mathematics and word-definitions have fallen? So that would mean "minority" has now become an entirely meaningless term? - SAT] [additional editor's note: No. Just because more than half of newborns are of a particular group, that doesn't mean that group, adults included, makes up a majority of the populace. It just means they're on the way to doing so - TLK (05/17/12)

"We've been talking this week about how to stop rape in conflict. As with many massive social changes, I think one of the greatest obstacles to eradicating this atrocity is the common belief that it can't be done. I tried to address that some in Monday's piece, but I thought we could all use a little more nitty-gritty. So I went straight to the source: Liz Bernstein. Bernstein is not only the founding Director of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, but is also a former Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)." (05/17/12)