Here’s a letter to the Los Angeles Times:

Arguing that greater government “redistribution” of income will spark economic growth, Gloria Richards repeats the fable that Henry Ford more than doubled his workers’ pay to $5 per day so that “they themselves could afford to drive his automobiles” (Letters, Aug. 29).

Blroll commenting on this post, writes:

How or why would private insurance companies insure anyone over the age of 65? I think any system private or governmental would require younger participants to support retirees.

Missouri voters have voted against the federal mandate in ObamaCare requiring everyone to buy health insurance.

Not surprisingly, they like their current health care more than ObamaCare.

A few of the original readers of DLM may remember my article about quitting smoking. Well, after hearing that my father-in-law gave up coffee and caffeine 8 months ago and how it's impacted him, I decided to do the same.

Here’s a letter to the Los Angeles Times, followed by a reprise of a post from 2004:

John Crowther is correct that Benjamin Franklin’s world “was vastly different from today’s world” (Letters, August 1).  But that world was different in the opposite way that Mr. Crowther imagines.

Bob Higgs ruminates on a recent essay by Angelo M. Codevilla.

City Journal‘s Nicole Gelinas wrote this remarkably powerful essay.  Here’s a slice:

Here’s a letter to the Washington Post:

You’re right to worry that Uncle Sam responded to the public’s anxiety about terrorism by creating an overgrown intelligence bureaucracy with bloated budgets that strain our wallets and arbitrary powers that mock the Constitution as they threaten our freedoms (“The overgrowth of intelligence programs since Sept. 11,” July 22).

A third of Americans are obese – and another third are overweight. The global picture isn't much rosier.Many of us, even if we're not exactly "fat", know that we could do with using a few pounds. Whether it's for our health, to improve our confidence, or just because we want to get back into those jeans, we'd like to diet successfully. But so often, our diets end up starting on a Monday and ending before Tuesday.

We are constantly bombarded with messages about healthy eating, dieting and keeping fit. Scares about food appear in the media continually: salmonella, BSE, dioxins, E.

In this op-ed appearing in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch, my former GMU student Julia Williams and I argue that privitization of state liquor stores is unlikely to lead to more alcohol-related health and social problems.