“The left’s patronizing quasi-colonialist view of the benighted Arabs was not just analytically incorrect. It was morally bankrupt too.
After all, going back at least to the Spanish Civil War, the left has always prided itself as the great international champion of freedom and human rights. And yet when America proposed […]
Archive for March, 2005
Mar24th2005
Mar23rd2005
No, not because of too much overtime, but because of not enough overtime.
The main cause for the riot was the limitation on working hours at the factory. The shorter hours have been requested by US companies so as to avoid criticism from various groups on long working hours. However, the mainly migrant workforce want to […]
Mar23rd2005
Arguments Against A Market Based Health Care System
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 0 CommentsIf you’re against a market based health care system than you should read Arnold Kling’s, Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, article in Tech Central Station discussing some of the issues that need to be addressed by those who take such a position.
He concludes with:
In a technocratic system, it is more […]
Mar23rd2005
“As an advocate of that notion of democratic revolution, I am not surprised that the opposing view was proved false. I am only surprised it was proved false so quickly — that the voters in Iraq, the people of Lebanon, the women of Kuwait, the followers of Ayman Nour in Egypt, would rise so eagerly […]
Mar22nd2005
Roland G. Fryer Jr
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 3 CommentsThe NY Times has a great biographical story on Harvard’s bright young star in economics, Roland G. Fryer Jr. Apparently, this young black economist wants to find out why blacks (and in our connection, minorities in general) are doing badly, and even more importantly, is open to looking at all possible causes, […]
Mar22nd2005
Bryan Okeefe, writing in Tech Central Station, documents big labors hypocrisy on social security:
But of all the groups engaged in the war over President Bush’s Social Security reform proposal, big labor has one of the most contradictory positions — at once arguing that the stock market is a bad investment for retirees, but, at the […]
Mar22nd2005
An Interview With Hernando De Soto
Published by in Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 CommentsStephen Pollard has an exclusive interview with the Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto, founder and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima. I’ve bloged about him before.
Mar22nd2005
Picture Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General and SocialSecurity. 0 CommentsMar22nd2005
“Those who claimed, with great certainty, that Arabs are an exception to the human tendency to freedom, that they live in a stunted and distorted culture that makes them love their chains, and that the notion that the U.S. could help trigger a democratic revolution by militarily deposing their oppressors was a fantasy — have […]
Mar21st2005
The Wall Street Journal has posted another economics debate. This time it is between Max Sawicky and Tyler Cowen, on the topic of Tax Reform. It is a must read for those interested in the tax reform debate (No subscription needed for 30 days).
Heres more.
Mar21st2005
Harvard Magazine has a detailed account of the Harvard Faculty ‘lack of confidence’ vote against president of Harvard Lawrence H. Summers. Many interesting comments, for example, Pinker states:
Johnstone Family professor of psychology Steven Pinker failed to see any principle underlying the motions criticizing the president. Summers had given a talk on women in the […]
Mar21st2005
“The Administration went ahead with this great project knowing it would be hostage to history. History has begun to speak. Elections in Afghanistan, a historic first. Elections in Iraq, a historic first. Free Palestinian elections producing a moderate leadership, two historic firsts. Municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, men only, but still a first. In Egypt, […]
Mar20th2005
“The Democrats’ problem is that they have proceeded for years with a goal of moving America some distance toward a Western European welfare state. Just how far, they have not had to decide. But Judis looks at Europe and sees a failing model: high unemployment, stalled economies and the welfare state in retreat.” — […]
Mar19th2005
“This was the critical event because Arabs have had good reason to doubt American sincerity: six decades of U.S. support for Arab dictators, a cynical “realism” that began with F.D.R.’s deal with Ibn Saud and reached its apogee with the 1991 betrayal of the anti-Saddam uprising that Bush 41 had encouraged in Iraq. Today, however, […]
Mar18th2005
The United States And Immigration
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Immigration. 1 CommentThe Economist gives a good overview of the state of immigration in the United States.
It proposes that the United States:
A better answer is to accept economic reality. It is fanciful to imagine that immigration will decrease. After all, an illegal alien working in conditions of near-slavery can still earn enough to support an […]
