David Holcberg
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February 05, 2008
The right to life includes the right to buy and sell organs.
If you were sick and needed a kidney transplant, you would soon find out that there is a waiting line--and that there are 70,000 people ahead of you, 4,000 of whom will die within a year. If you couldn't find a willing and compatib...
June 01, 2007
Last Wednesday the House of Representatives passed legislation instituting penalties of up to $150 million for companies and up to $2 million and 10 years' imprisonment for individuals found guilty of gasoline "price gouging." But the real gouger driving up gasoline prices is not the private sector,...
March 14, 2007
The right to life includes the right to buy and sell organs.
If you were sick and needed a kidney transplant, you would soon find out that there is a waiting line--and that there are 70,000 people ahead of you, 4,000 of whom will die within a year. If you couldn't find a willing and compatible d...
March 11, 2007
Last Wednesday 79 members of the House of Representatives introduced a bill instituting criminal and civil penalties on any corporation or individual found guilty of gasoline "price gouging." But the real gouger driving up gasoline prices is not the private sector, it is our government.
To "gouge...
August 10, 2006
In response to Israel's decision to expand its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, White House press secretary Tony Snow said: "We want an end to violence and we do not want escalations." But continuing the violence and escalating the war is precisely what the United States should urge Israel to d...
May 01, 2006
No amount of negotiation or international pressure will persuade the Iranian theocrats to give up their longtime quest for nuclear bombs. To ensure Iran will not produce--or use--nuclear bombs, the United States and its allies must destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and wipe out its regime--and must ...
November 15, 2005
The right to buy and sell organs is included in the right to life.
The organ-transplant tragedy at UC Irvine Medical Center, where according to the Los Angeles Times "more than 30 people died awaiting liver transplants . . . as the hospital turned down scores of organs that might have saved them,"...