Lively Debate

Its Monday, so it must be Carnival of the Capitalists. My top picks from this week:

• Medical Malpractice.
• Event based health insurance. End of life care, a difficult moral issue. How much is one more week worth?
• Walmart is not evil.
• Demand for Stocks in the light of social security reform.
• A call to embrace Latin American Culture. (Embrace and extend?)

I like to see stories like this. This is what I elected Bush to do. To get tough on the sources of terrorism: Syria, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. David Brooks has an Editorial comparing the fall of Communism with the spread of democracy in the middle east. Bush doesn't have the eloquence of Reagan, but through his actions of bringing about elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, he has issued a parallel call across the middle east: "Mr. Dictator, let your people vote."

The war on Iraq was justified with WMD, but I always felt that the primary benefit of attacking Iraq would be to break the status quo in the middle east. There is a recent Colin Powell interview which discusses the motives of regime change versus WMD.

The blog hopping Carnival of the Capitalists has become one of the highlights of my Mondays. I usually end up reading more than half the linked to articles. My Favorites from this week:

• What are the real damages in the RIAA lawsuits
• An interesting chart of the peace dividend
• Customer service operations that fail to sample their own dogfood
• Google filters and how to avoid them
• Immigrants or outsourcing?
• Evils of sugar protectionism