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- The Fallacy of "Fairness" - February 9, 2010
- If there is ever a contest to pick which word has done the most damage to people's thinking, and to actions to carry out that thinking, my nomination would be the word...
- Society & the Fallacy of "Fairness" - February 9, 2010
- Most of us want to be fair, in the sense of treating everyone equally. We want laws to be applied the same to everyone. We want educational, economic or other criteria...
- Genetics & the Fallacy of "Fairness" - February 9, 2010
- Mixed up with the question of fairness to individuals and groups has been the explosive question of whether individuals and groups have the innate ability to perform at...
- Education & the Fallacy of "Fairness" - February 9, 2010
- A recent flap in a Berkeley high school reveals what a farce "fairness" can be. Because this is ultra-liberal Berkeley, perhaps we should not be surprised that a...
- Politicians in Wonderland - February 2, 2010
- There was a recent flap because three different members of the Obama administration, on three different Sunday television talk shows, gave three widely differing...
- Great Scott! - January 26, 2010
- Some of the most melancholy letters and e-mails that are sent to me are from people who lament that there is nothing they can do about the bad policies that they see...
- Are Republicans "Due"?: Part IV - January 19, 2010
- During this election year, and in the presidential election year of 2012, Republicans will not only do battle with the Democrats but with each other. How they handle...
- Are Republicans "Due"? - January 19, 2010
- When a baseball player has come to bat after failing to get a hit twenty times in a row, some fans say he is "due" for a hit. But statisticians say he is no more likely...
- Are Republicans "Due"?: Part III - January 19, 2010
- If the Republicans think that they are simply "due" to start winning elections, perhaps buoyed by the recent polls showing the public turning against Democrats in...
- Are Republicans "Due"?: Part II - January 19, 2010
- Some people say that there is no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. Whether that is said because of being too lazy to examine the differences or because...
- "Notional" Security" - January 12, 2010
- The latest "screw-up" that let a man with explosives get on a plane on Christmas day is only part of a larger laxness and irresponsibility when it comes to national...
- Intellectuals and Society: Part II - January 5, 2010
- Ideas are such intangible things that it is hard to believe that they have had a huge impact on the lives of people who are not intellectuals and who, in many cases,...
- Intellectuals and Society - January 5, 2010
- There has probably never been an era in history when intellectuals have played a larger role in society. When intellectuals who generate ideas are surrounded by a wide...
- Unhealthy Arrogance - December 29, 2009
- The only thing healthy about Congress' health insurance legislation is the healthy skepticism about it by most of the public, as revealed by polls. What is most...
- Old Boxing Matches - December 29, 2009
- Watching old boxing matches on DVDs tells us something about some of the ways in which American society has changed. The first thing I noticed about the boxers back in...
- The "Science" Mantra - December 22, 2009
- Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the...
- Christmas Books - December 15, 2009
- One way to reduce the wear and tear of Christmas shopping at the mall is to give books as presents. Books can be bought on the Internet, and they can be matched to the...
- Jobs or Snow Jobs? - December 8, 2009
- President Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is "creating" but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office. How can there be more...
- Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene - December 1, 2009
- Random thoughts on the passing scene: Sometimes we seem like people on a pleasure boat drifting down the Niagara river, unaware that there are waterfalls up ahead. I...
- Solving Whose Problem? - November 24, 2009
- No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems-- of...
- Bowing to "World Opinion" - November 17, 2009
- In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign...
- Random Thoughts - November 10, 2009
- Random thoughts on the passing scene: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of...
- Making Health Care Worse - November 7, 2009
- What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part III - November 7, 2009
- One of the strongest talking points of those who want a government-run medical care system is that we simply cannot afford the high and rising costs of medical care...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care: Part II - November 5, 2009
- Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower...
- The "Costs" of Medical Care - November 3, 2009
- We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high"-- either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being...
- Dismantling America: Part II - October 30, 2009
- Many years ago, at a certain academic institution, there was an experimental program that the faculty had to vote on as to whether or not it should be made permanent. I...
- Dismantling America - October 27, 2009
- Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars"...
- To Sue or Not - October 20, 2009
- To sue or not to sue? That is the question. After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had. It...
- Magic Numbers in Politics: Part II - October 14, 2009
- It is understandable that many people do not pay nearly as much attention to political issues as they do to practical decisions that they have to make in their own...
- Magic Numbers in Politics - October 13, 2009
- Back in the days of the Soviet Union, two Russian economists who had never lived in a country with a free market economy understood something about market economies that...
- A Letter from a Child - October 6, 2009
- Recent videos of American children in school singing songs of praise for Barack Obama were a little much, especially for those of us old enough to remember pictures of...
- The Brainy Bunch - September 29, 2009
- Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might...
- The Underdogs - September 22, 2009
- It is a good reflection on Americans that they tend to be on the side of the underdog. But it is often hard to tell who is in fact the underdog, or why. Many years ago,...
- Choosing the Right College - September 22, 2009
- There is so much for high school seniors and their parents to know about colleges that they not only need to get a lot of information but also need to make sure it is...
- Fables for Adults - September 15, 2009
- Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth, who was walking on a log across...
- Obama's Rhetoric vs. Common Sense - September 12, 2009
- "Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the...
- What Obama Says vs. What He Does - September 8, 2009
- The most important thing about what anyone says are not the words themselves but the credibility of the person who says them. The words of convicted swindler Bernie...
- CIA Interrogators Did Not Cross the Line - September 1, 2009
- Britain's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi-- the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people-- is galling enough in...
- The Great Escape - August 25, 2009
- Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education,...