“People who believe in judicial activism often cite “good” policies imposed by judges and “bad” policies created by elected officials. But you could just as easily cite the reverse. It was the Supreme Court which enhanced the rights of slaveowners in the Dred Scott case and it was elected officials — the President and Congress […]
Archive for December, 2004
Dec21st2004
Checking emails and what not. Only have time to post a couple quotes of the day that I had saved up…More later.
Dec21st2004
“So where does all this leave us in understanding Bush? The first step is to abandon the original preconception of President Bush. He’s different. The second step is to accept that he’s attempting big things. And the third, as a result, is to get ready for a second presidential term like few we’ve seen”. –Fred […]
Dec21st2004
“With the agenda of the political left increasingly rejected by voters at the polls, the only way to get the items on that agenda enacted into law is to have judges who will decree the liberal agenda from the bench. Too many judges have already done that on everything from gay marriage to racial quotas […]
Dec20th2004
Hello Everyone
Published by in Books, Economics, FreeTrade, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 5 CommentsI am at an internet cafe in Chapala, Mexico, I thought I’d stop by and say a word or two.
I didn’t realize that the internet cafe’s were so cheap here, the last couple of times I was here I didn’t bother to go to one. But yesterday I stopped at one and was on a […]
Dec20th2004
“If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as we wish. That is why Utopian planners end up as despots, whether at the national level or at the level of the local “redevelopment” agency”.–Thomas Sowell
Dec18th2004
Blogging will be very limited the next two weeks (back on January 3rd) as I will be on vacation in Guadalajara, Mexico visiting some very close friends. I will try to stop by an internet cafe to check email and possibly blog a thing or two. But it will be difficult, since I am […]
Dec18th2004
A while back I read an article discussing what US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defined as an American. It wasn’t the color of your skin, or even whether your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. What bound us all as Americans was our love and respect for the country that we live in, and […]
Dec17th2004
Arguments Against Privatized Social Security?
Published by in Economics, General and SocialSecurity. 0 CommentsArnold Kling asks,
The question that I have for Krugman and other defenders of the status quo is this: how much of an increase in economic growth must privatization stimulate in order to make it worthwhile? What I thought that Kinsley was saying was that unless economic growth increases by enough to eliminate all of the […]
Dec17th2004
“Rather than applauding Hillary Clinton’s telling them last summer that their taxes must be raised because “we’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good,” they prefer Newt Gingrich’s observation that the Declaration of Independence’s Pursuit of Happiness includes an active verb: “Not happiness stamps; not a department of happiness; […]
Dec17th2004
South Carolinians for responsible Government writes,
South Carolina has sharply increased spending on public schools for forty years. The results have been disappointing. In the past ten years legislatures in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida have passed school choice measures. Scholars have found results so positive that President Bush in January, 2004 signed a bill from […]
Dec17th2004
“The danger is that, in the wake of Iraq, liberals will turn inward, as many did after Vietnam. They will abandon the belief that U.S. power can positively change the Muslim world and instead argue that the United States should merely aggravate it less while killing terrorists where we can… It will leave liberals on […]
Dec16th2004
Casey Lartigue, former policy analyst with Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom, writes what he believes are the causes of the achivement gap between black and white students,
While I’m on the subject: When it comes to the issue of the achievement gap and why black students are trailing, my view may be somewhat unorthodox. I […]
Dec16th2004
“What do liberals have to say about this singular achievement by the Bush administration? That Afghanistan is growing poppies. Good grief. This is news? ‘Afghanistan grows poppies’ is the sun rising in the east. ‘Afghanistan inaugurates democratically elected president’ is the sun rising in the west. Afghanistan has always grown poppies. What is Bush supposed […]
Dec16th2004
“One could argue that the major fault of the world’s only superpower is that we have not done enough. How can we tolerate the sheer hell of Haiti so close to our shores? Why is Mexico still bound in such poverty that its peoples are fleeing through our porous borders in record numbers? But Ellis[read: […]
Dec15th2004
The Economics Of Privatized Social Security
Published by in Economics, General and SocialSecurity. 0 CommentsArnold Kling, Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a great article on The Economics Of Social Security Privatization. It is a response to Michael Kinsley.
