The word: safety, when combined with transportation and administration. According to statistician William M. Briggs, bad statistics allows the safety in the name.
Ohio law requires new drivers under the age of 18 to complete a state-approved driver education course consisting of “a minimum of 24 hours of classroom instruction and 8 hours behind the wheel.” So it should come as no surprise that there are a host of private companies providing state-approved driver training. But what are these companies really
... that it’s not made in a log cabin. Log Cabin Syrup, that is. Seems the good state of Vermont is afraid consumers will confuse Log Cabin All Natural syrup with 100% maple syrup. “The FDA said it does not have a definition for ‘natural.’” At issue is the “natural” claim. Reminds me of an exchange I heard during a session of my local zoning
Thomas L. Friedman notes that, “Sridhar, Bloom’s co-founder and C.E.O., said his fuel cells, which can run on natural gas or biogas, can generate electricity at 8 to 10 cents a kilowatt hour, with today’s subsidies .” (emphasis mine) Today’s subsidies?!? What is the price absent handouts? That’s what I want to know. I cheer folks like Sridhar as
On my way home from work I was browbeaten by a timely public service announcement: Acting U.S. Fire Administrator Glenn Gaines wants you to Put Safety In Play During the Fourth of July . Of course you can be assured that Gaines is vigilant when it comes to your safety. He is, after all, acting U.S. fire administrator of the U.S. Fire
An article over at The Economist comments on the Austrian business-cycle theory. The article states, “The Austrians may have said smart things about the boom, but what about the bust? One criticism is that the Austrians offered a ‘counsel of despair’, suggesting that the authorities do nothing while a crisis blows itself out.” The authorities do
Some folks strain to find their agenda in every event. For Georgie Anne Geyer , state-mandated population control provides the only hope for her agenda: saving the environment, whatever that means. So she sees the heat, drought and fires this summer in Russia as proof that Malthus was right, all along. Yet While it is true that today’s disasters
My wife and I just celebrated the birth of a beautiful, brown-haired boy. During the night, as I was waiting for nature to run its course, I walked around observing the maternity unit of our chosen hospital. Though this was our seventh trip there, as I ambled about, something caught my eye for the very first time. There next to the door to labor
I guess the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. Now that the FDA has effectively banned caffeine-laced alcoholic beverages , to be consistent, it will have to take the next logical step of banning the concurrent consumption of caffeine and alcohol, regardless of how the two are mixed. If indeed “combinations of caffeine and alcohol pose a
Scott Baker over at OpEdNews recently posted an article under this title: “Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School are morons, China is full of Geniuses.” Ouch. According to Baker, China’s managed economy is the future, “China is miles ahead of the U.S. in economic management. It is an economy run by serious economists who learn from their
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