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"The memorandum is a recognition that they have got to deploy or employ these resources in a rational and an effective way, and using police time to arrest people who are ill and are using marijuana for medical purposes is a gross misallocation of resources," he says.
Our reaction to his statement feels more ritualistic than rational. After all, unemployment is still nudging 10%, and foreclosure rates remain high. Yet the Great Fed Shaman has pronounced the recession monster dead. Let us rejoice.
Obama, President Barack • despite endless droning by pundits about the overexposure of, including one excruciating attempt at humor about, poll shows two-thirds of respondents do not feel that they're seeing too much of • ecstasy-inducing faulting of for "his determination to rely on rational analysis, rather...
Ironically, several of the President's most important initiatives - in Israel, Iran and Afghanistan - have been mugged by democracy (or the pretense of democracy, in the latter two cases). In Israel, democracy is very real, but the elections resulted in a right-wing coalition that has refused to freeze illegal...
If the nation's most informed public-health experts do not share their best guesses, people will find worse information somewhere else. "People cannot make rational decisions without knowledge," says Dr. Sandro Galea, director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan. "And knowledge has to flow...