Is preventative healthcare cost-effective?
By Tom Quiner According to Rutgers economist, Louise Russell, “prevention usually adds to medical spending.” She’s studied it. She wrote about it in the Journal of Health Affairs in 2009. She says that : Four out of five preventive options “add more to medical costs than they save.” The President doesn’t care about the cost,…
Read MoreDo you want Kathleen Sebelius to tell your dentist how to clean your teeth?
I just got back from the dentist where I had my teeth cleaned. Section 4102 of Obamacare is charged with setting standards for “tooth-level surveillance.” This is but one of 1968 new powers granted to government bureaucrats. My dentist has done just fine without Obamacare telling him how to do it. Butt out, Mr. President and Ms. Sebelius.
Read MoreThe end of time
What kind of music would a man write who doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring, whether he will live or die?
Read MoreAnybody here seen my old friend Martin?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUn0vvgEvBc&feature=related] Anybody here seen my old friend Martin? Can anybody tell me where he’s gone? He freed a lot of people but it seems the good they die young You know, I just looked around and he’s gone. Didn’t you love the things they stood for Didn’t they try to find the…
Read MoreGod vs. Science, part 2
[The following essay came across my e-mail yesterday. You know the type, it’s been forwarded around the world. I don’t know who wrote it, so I apologize to the unknown author for not giving him or her proper attribution. It is a wonderful discussion of God vs. science.] *** God vs. Science “Let me explain…
Read MoreGod vs. Science, part 1
Can you prove God’s existence? Perhaps the better question is, can you disprove it? The evidence of intelligent design is compelling.
Read MoreQuiner’s Diner interviewed today on My World, My People
By Tom Quiner I had the pleasure of being interviewed today by John Hernandez, host of the podcast TV show called My World, My People. We talked about everything from the Arizona shooting to religion and journalistic bias. We even fit in a discussion about the steroids scandal in baseball. You can watch the interview…
Read MoreIs journalism dying?
By Tom Quiner Do you trust the media? If you’re like me, you’ll probably say: it depends who is doing the reporting. Conservatives like Fox News, whose slogan is: “we report, you decide.” Liberals like Katie Couric who says, “we go beyond the news, we tell you what it means.” Translation: we’re going to slant…
Read MoreSarah Palin can’t win when it comes to the media
By Tom Quiner Sarah Palin was sucked into the tragic Arizona mass murder story by the mainstream media (MSM) the instant the news hit. If you were accused of being somewhat culpable for such a horrific loss of life, would you feel a need to defend yourself? Of course you would. Ms. Palin did just…
Read MoreAnatomy of mass murder
In light of the complexities of the human psyche, it seems that pot-smoking and atheism have at least as much relevance as Sarah Palin when it comes to making snap judgements about the motives of mass-murderers.
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