Today is August 31st, 08/31, or 3108 in reverse, and since 3108 looks very similar to the word blog, August 31 was designated as Blog Day.
According to Oso, the idea was first suggested by Israeli blogger, Nir Ofir and the idea is:
The idea is that this coming Wednesday, bloggers from around the world will link […]
Archive for August, 2005
Aug31st2005
Aug31st2005
What Type Of Judge Democrats Consider Mainstream
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, General and Judicial Nominees. 1 CommentWhen a Democrat doesn’t like a Republican nominated judge, they usually accuse the judge of being an ‘extremist’, or ‘outside the mainstream’, and even a ‘judicial activist’, but what is never asked is what exactly does a Democrat consider mainstream. In other words, what would Democrats want in a nominee, what would it take for […]
Aug31st2005
“Some people think that big money has too much influence in the US political system. I disagree. As long as the government does things, and as long as it’s democratic, the public will rightly seek to influence what the government does. This public includes non-profit and for-profit corporations.
The problem is that people expect government to […]
Aug30th2005
Gary Becker On Affirmative Action
Published by in Books, Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and affirmative action. 13 CommentsOne of my favorite economists, Gary Becker, who in 1992 won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in topics such as discrimination, and the author of the groundbreaking book “The Economics of Discrimination“, writes with regard to affirmative action:
My belief is that affirmative action is bad for any country that aspires […]
Aug30th2005
“I’m probably a little insensitive about this after my experience teaching in Taiwan and South Korea. After being told by parents to beat their kids if they don’t study; hear from parents who stay up drinking coffee so they can sit with their kids while they do their homework; talk to kids who are seniors […]
Aug29th2005
Black And Hispanic Business Leaders Support School Choice
Published by in Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 2 CommentsThe Tallahassee Democrat writes:
The Florida Black Chamber of Commerce and the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce support these programs because they empower traditionally underserved, low-income minority parents to provide a high-quality education for their children, and because they promote improvements in public school performance for all children, especially minority children….
As the economy continues to […]
Aug29th2005
“I think the evidence is very strong that family background is a major predictor of future behavior of children. So a disproportionate number of problem kids come from disadvantaged families. The simple economics of intervention therefore suggests that society should focus its investment where it’s likely to have very high returns. Right now, that is […]
Aug26th2005
Vernon Smith, professor at George Mason and a 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, writes:
Many foreign countries–the U.K., Chile, Australia and New Zealand–have managed to liberalize electricity systems. There are no regrets in spite of mistakes, backsliding and learning bumps. Liberalization occurred because both U.S.-style regulation and foreign nationalization programs were judged serious failures. […]
Aug26th2005
“Most macroeconomists think of human capital as education, measured by years of school. Or if they’re a little more sophisticated, they measure human capital by test scores like IQ or an achievement test. Neglected are all the noncognitive abilities that are produced by healthy families. Deficiencies in these skills can be partially remediated, as we […]
Aug25th2005
With the huge help of my good (liberal) friend Oso, from Oso’s Blog, I have finally updated and hopefully, fixed my website. I decided to remove my flickr pictures on the right, and I also decided to install gravatar’s. If you don’t happen to have a gravatar, a picture of my choosing will appear in […]
Aug25th2005
If Roe vs Wade Were Overturned
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Abortion, General and Judicial Nominees. 1 CommentLaura Vanderkam, writing in USA Today has a great article explaining exactly what would happen if Roe vs. Wade was overturned:
On both sides, people talk broadly about wanting to know Roberts’ views because the next judge will shape the “direction” of the country, but let’s not mince words. Most of this angst is about one […]
Aug25th2005
“Many of these people have moral objections and resent the Supreme Court’s presumption in its Roe v. Wade decision, but they’re also pragmatic enough to realize that a ban couldn’t be enforced and would create a new set of problems. If Roe v. Wade were overturned and abortion policy left up to the states, these […]
Aug24th2005
Are School Vouchers The Next Great Civil Rights Issue?
Published by in Debates, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 13 CommentsLegal affairs hosted a debate on whether or not school vouchers are the next great civil rights issue. Clint Bolick, President and General Counsel for the Alliance for School Choice, took the affirmative and Laura Underkuffler, a professor at Duke Law School, took the negative. The debate can be found here and here.
Clint Bolick […]
Aug24th2005
” The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden‘s safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him […]
Aug23rd2005
Economist Max Sawicky, blogging over at MaxSpeak, gives us a list of the Wall Street Journal Online Econoblog debates.
Update: Bloggers Barry Ritholtz vs Andrew Samwick on whether we are Shopped Out?
Aug23rd2005
The Truth About Sweatshops
Published by in Economics, FreeTrade, General and LatinAmerica. 24 CommentsBenjamin Powell, a professor of economics at San Jose State University, puts sweatshops in their proper perspective:
We use “sweatshop” to mean those foreign factories with low pay and poor health and safety standards where employees choose to work, not those where employees are coerced into working by the threat of violence. And we admit that […]
