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- The Economic "Stimulus" - January 6, 2009
- Regardless of what President Bush or Secretary of the Treasury Paulson may have had in mind when they promoted this huge bailout package, with all due respect to these...
- "Outliers" - December 30, 2008
- One of the first groups of outliers studied are top-level Canadian hockey players, a wholly disproportionate number of whom were born in the first three...
- The Art of the Impossible - December 30, 2008
- You want the impossible? You got it. Politicians don't get elected by saying "No" to voters. Of course Californians also got electricity blackouts...
- Another Great Depression? - December 23, 2008
- It is such a good story that it seems a pity to spoil it with facts. Yet there is something to be said for not repeating the catastrophes of the past. ...
- Postponing Reality - December 17, 2008
- Can't do math or science after they are in college? Denounce those courses for their rigidity and insensitivity, and create softer courses that the students...
- Christmas Books - December 16, 2008
- It can become especially relevant in the coming year, if the new administration goes further with the government interventions in the economy begun by the...
- The High Cost of Favoritism - December 9, 2008
- Think about it: What did Richard Nixon have to gain by setting up the kinds of illegal operations that finally cost him the presidency-- and could have...
- The Meaning of Mumbai - December 9, 2008
- Contrary to some of the more mawkish notions of what a government is supposed to be, its top job is the protection of the people. Nobody on 9/11 would have...
- Freedom and the Left - December 2, 2008
- There are high schools across the country from which you cannot graduate, and colleges where your application for admission will not be accepted, unless you...
- Politicians, CEO Pay & the Tale of Boris' Goat - November 26, 2008
- It may tell us something painful about many Americans today, when so many people are preoccupied with the pay of corporate CEOs. It is not that the corporate...
- 'Jolting' the Economy - November 25, 2008
- What we are talking about is a golden political opportunity for politicians to use the current financial crisis to fundamentally change an economy that has...
- The Right to Win - November 18, 2008
- Apparently, if you don't win, somebody has put up a barrier or a ceiling. The more obvious explanation of the nomination outcome was that Obama ran a better...
- It's Priceless - November 18, 2008
- After Arthur Goldberg had served on the Supreme Court, he lamented that more of society's problems could not be dealt with as that court dealt with them-- by...
- "Intellectuals" - November 11, 2008
- It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Adlai Stevenson was certainly regarded as an intellectual by intellectuals in the 1950s. But, half a...
- Affirmative Action and Gay Marriage - November 4, 2008
- When arbitrary numerical "goals" or "quotas" under affirmative action are not met, the burden of proof is put on the employer to prove that he did not...
- A "Sound" Economy? - November 4, 2008
- The political left has always known how to exploit temporary economic problems to create lasting institutions reflecting their ideology. The "progressives"...
- Ego and Mouth - November 2, 2008
- The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges-- very bright and...
- Obama, Powell and Popularity - October 28, 2008
- One of the first signs of those shortcomings was Powell's flip-flop on the issue of racial quotas and preferences. In his memoirs, he opposed such policies....
- A Perfect Storm - October 28, 2008
- Policies that he proposes under the banner of "change" are almost all policies that have been tried repeatedly in other countries-- and failed repeatedly in...
- Taxing Times - October 28, 2008
- The two months between the time of a presidential election and the time when the new president takes office is an eternity in terms of how much money can be transferred...
- Obama and the Law - October 28, 2008
- Like so many things that Obama says, it may sound nice if you don't stop and think-- and chilling if you do stop and think. Do we really want judges who...
- Polls and Pols - October 21, 2008
- Some of these polls seem like they are not trying to report facts but to create an impression. One poll has been reported as using a sample consisting of 280...
- Record vs. Rhetoric - October 18, 2008
- Sarah Palin's record is on the record, while whole years of Barack Obama's life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one after another of the...
- Negative Advertising vs. 'Real Issues' - October 14, 2008
- Why then is "negative advertising" such a big deal these days? The dirty little secret is this: Liberal candidates have needed to escape their past and...
- The Real Obama: Part III - October 7, 2008
- The education situation in Obama's home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children-- and one of the best for the unionized teachers. ...
- The Real Obama: Part IV - October 7, 2008
- Yet Senator Obama not only voted in favor of the bridge to nowhere, he voted against anti-earmark amendments proposed by Senator John McCain. ...
- The Real Obama - October 7, 2008
- Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack...
- The Real Obama: Part II - October 7, 2008
- Does it matter if Barack Obama is for sex education in kindergarten? It matters more than most things that are called "the real issues." Seemingly...
- Do Facts Matter? - October 4, 2008
- The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which...
- Bailout Politics - September 30, 2008
- Moreover, he said that the federal government has "probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing." ...
- Penny-wise Politics - September 30, 2008
- But however insignificant the pay of CEOs is economically, it is big stuff politically. Whatever the shortcomings of the Democrats, they are consistent in their...
- A Political "Solution": Part II - September 23, 2008
- That's what a trillion means. Put a dollar sign in front of it and that's what the current bailout may cost. Will that money be spent wisely? It...
- A Political "Solution" - September 23, 2008
- There are times when government intervention can make things better. But that is no guarantee that it won't make things worse. As they say, "the devil is in...
- Idols of Crowds - September 16, 2008
- To find anything comparable to crowds' euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s, with their...
- The High Cost of Racial Hype - September 16, 2008
- All this came back to me recently when I saw a font-page story about middle-class blacks worrying about their racial identity. There, on the front page of...
- The Vision of the Left - September 9, 2008
- It is hardly surprising that young people prefer the political left. The only reason for rejecting the left's vision is that the real world in which we live is very...
- Foreign Policy "Experience" - September 3, 2008
- Moreover, if Senator Barack Obama is elected, he will not be a heartbeat away from the presidency, his would be the heartbeat of the president-- and he would...
- A Knock or a Boost? - September 3, 2008
- "The public's right to know" is often invoked by the mainstream media, when what they are really talking about is the media's right to smear those that they disagree...
- Changes in Politics - August 30, 2008
- Who would have thought that Obama's big speech at the Democratic convention would disappoint expectations, while McCain's speech electrified his audience when he...
- Amateurs Outdoing Professionals - August 20, 2008
- Nevertheless, we continue to take seriously the pretensions of educators who fail to educate, but who put on airs of having "professional" expertise beyond the...