Despite Flaws, U.S. Health Care the Best | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary

Despite Flaws, U.S. Health Care the Best | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'They come here because they know that despite its flaws, the U.S. health care system still provides the highest quality care in the world. Whether the disease is cancer, pneumonia, heart disease or AIDS, the chances of a patient surviving are far higher in the U.S. than in other countries.

According to a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet, the U.S. is at the top of the charts when it comes to surviving cancer. For example, more than two-thirds of women diagnosed with cancer will survive for at least five years in the U.S. That's 6 percentage points better than the next best country, Sweden.'

When Will Your Time Come? | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

When Will Your Time Come? | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'Notice that the president, when arguing that his "jobs" bill is going to increase jobs, quotes the same economists who also said his "stimulus" would keep unemployment under 8 percent, rather than referring to those economists who were correct in saying it would fail.'

And Now for Obama's Ugandan Military Adventure | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

And Now for Obama's Ugandan Military Adventure | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'The Obama team has embraced the U.N. doctrine known as "Responsibility to Protect," which holds that the "international community" has an obligation to protect civilians from crimes against humanity — by force, if necessary — when their own governments cannot or will not.

That doctrine is at odds with the U.S. Constitution, which empowers Congress to set up a military establishment for the singular end of "the common defence ... of the United States."'

It's Time to Declare Peace in the War against Drugs | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary

It's Time to Declare Peace in the War against Drugs | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary: 'Banning drugs raises their price, creates enormous profits for criminal entrepreneurs, thrusts even casual users into an illegal marketplace, encourages heavy users to commit property crimes to acquire higher-priced drugs, leaves violence the only means for dealers to resolve disputes, forces government to spend lavishly on enforcement, corrupts public officials and institutions, and undermines a free society. All of these effects are evident today and are reminiscent of Prohibition (of alcohol) in the early 20th Century.'