“Recently I cited Thomas Sowell’s article on judges’ “opinions,” in which he argued that it shouldn’t make any different what a judge believes so long as he knows that his job is to follow the law, not impose his own views on it. ISTM that we’ve inverted the roles of judges and juries. It used […]
Archive for July, 2005
Jul30th2005
“Once we arrived at the factory the tour was fascinating. We practically got a private tour since there were very few tourists that made the journey out to this part of the city. Clearly, for those employed making the cigars this was not an ideal job by U.S. standards. We were not allowed to take […]
Jul29th2005
About a month ago I updated my website, and with the website update, I installed a somewhat advanced spam filter to help me with all the spam I was getting before. So far the spam filter seems to work really well, since I haven’t had to remove one spam comment since it was installed.
However, on […]
Jul29th2005
Things To Keep In Mind When Discussing Social Security
Published by in Economics, General and SocialSecurity. 3 CommentsWill Wilkinson writes:
* The Social Security tax is regressive.
* The overall benefit structure accomplishes, on net, either no downward income redistribution, or a small amount of upward redistribution. (I.e., it is either close to a wash, or regressive, redistribution-wise.)
*The system is structured to disadvantage current workers over current retirees, and is thus invalid as a […]
Jul29th2005
“Many people are so preoccupied with the notion that their own knowledge exceeds the average knowledge of millions of other people that they overlook the more important fact that their knowledge is not even one-tenth of the total knowledge of those millions. That is the crucial fallacy behind the repeated failures of central planning and […]
Jul28th2005
CAFTA Roll Call
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 3 CommentsThe roll calls were as follows:
In the U.S. House:
Democrats in favor = 15 (7%).
Republicans in favor = 202 (87%).
Totals: 217-215-2, in favor.
In the U.S. Senate:
Democrats in favor = 10 + Jeffords (24%).
Republicans in favor = 43 (78%).
Totals: 54-45-1, in favor.
Information via PoliPundit.
Jul28th2005
Can A Devout Catholic Become A Supreme Court Nominee?
Published by in General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Judicial Nominees. 16 CommentsIt seems like some Democrats are saying no:
Senator Durbin of Illinois, fresh from slandering American GIs by comparing them to Nazis, introduced a new slander into the public debate after meeting on Friday with President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge John Roberts. Mr. Durbin, according to several press reports, asked the nominee to […]
Jul28th2005
“Today we are drawing these people from across our borders. They come here quite freely, and not on slave transports. All of us reap the advantages of their cheap labor and their hard work, but many of us want to pretend that, somehow, they are not necessary to us and that we can get along […]
Jul27th2005
A Victory For Underdeveloped Nations
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 Comments…and a victory for the United States.
The House (narrowly) approved CAFTA:
After an all-day, full-court press by the White House, the House early Thursday narrowly approved the controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement, avoiding a potentially embarrassing political defeat for President Bush on an issue he championed for months.
The final vote to approve the […]
Jul27th2005
Why We Should Support CAFTA
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and LatinAmerica. 5 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal details CAFTA’s benefits:
Start simply with the appeal of greater two-way trade: The vast majority of Cafta-made products already enter the U.S. duty-free under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. Cafta opens the way for more U.S. products going south. The agreement also boosts intellectual property protection in Cafta countries, as well as competition […]
Jul27th2005
“What other advanced democracy would radically legalize abortion by judicial decree rather than by democratic will expressed through legislatures or referendums? What sane democracy allows four unelected robed eminences in Massachusetts to revolutionize the very definition of marriage, the most ancient institution in society?
This is not just deeply undemocratic. It is politically crazy. Democracies work […]
Jul26th2005
The United States And Aid To Foreign Countries
Published by in Economics, General, HealthCare and Poverty. 1 CommentTim Worstall puts the United States aid to foreign countries in perspective:
Estimated U.S. Total Economic Engagement with Developing
Countries in 2003
[…]
Jul26th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books, Communism, Economics and General. 0 Comments“It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that ‘good’ men in […]
Jul25th2005
Why Health Care Is So Expensive And What Can Help Make It Cheaper
Published by in Economics, General and HealthCare. 3 CommentsThe Wall Street Journal details some of the reasons behind Health Cares high cost:
Right now Americans who aren’t lucky enough to get insurance from large employers or poor enough to qualify for Medicaid find themselves at the mercy of the legislators and insurance commissioners of the state in which they happen to live. This can […]
Jul25th2005
“It was said of liberal legend Senator Hubert Humphrey that he had more solutions than there were problems. But today’s liberals seem to have no solutions to anything, just carping, spin, and character-assassination”. –Thomas Sowell
