“That report does indeed point out that many people — 26 percent — who first registered in 2004 did not find their names on the voter rolls at polling places. What Kennedy doesn’t say, though, is that the same study found no significant difference in the share of Kerry voters and Bush voters who came […]
Archive for June, 2006
Jun9th2006
Tom DeLay’s farewell speech to the US House of Representatives:
You show me a nation without partisanship, and I’ll show you a tyranny.
For all its faults, it is partisanship—based on core principles—that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream, and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and […]
Jun9th2006
“As a Jew, it never ceases to amaze me that people think the most important lesson of the Holocaust is that anyone, even civilized Germans who love Bach and Beethoven, can become murderers. Or that the most important lesson is that hatred is wrong. Hatred is immortal. People say, “never again” as if […]
Jun8th2006
Why The Rise In Income Inequality?
Published by in Economics, Education, General, Inequality and Vouchers. 3 CommentsRussell Roberts, professor of economics at George Mason University, in his debate with Heather Boushey lists the reasons for higher income inequality:
Starting in the early 1970s, the divorce rate exploded in America, creating an enormous increase in households headed by women and an increase in the percentage of women in the workplace. Though the gap […]
Jun8th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Europe, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Welfare. 0 Comments“On the face of it, America’s welfare system is harsher and less hospitable than Europe’s, something that many liberals lament. But in this respect, at least, that appearance is misleading. The unintended consequences of Europe’s milder regime are not just a looming fiscal collapse but also, in the meantime, intensifying and plainly self-destructive […]
Jun7th2006
The Growing Irrelevance Of Income Inequality
Published by in Debates, Economics, General and Inequality. 8 CommentsEconomists Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Russell Roberts a professor of economics at George Mason University debate income inequality in the Wall Street Journal econoblog here.
Here are some notable quotes:
First, consider the level of inequality that we can actually perceive in our daily lives, as opposed to the level […]
Jun7th2006
“It’s one thing to cram supply-and-demand analysis into students’ short-term memory. It’s quite another to get them to think like economists when they see a real-world issue. For example, consider a bill to force Wal-Mart to provide health insurance to its workers. I am not saying that economists should teach people to oppose such a […]
Jun6th2006
I Can’t Stand Radical Chicanoism
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Chicanoism, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 34 CommentsI can’t stand radical, and even most forms of moderate, Chicanoism. A case in point is Marcos Aguilar, most known for assisting in occupying (and laying to waste) the Faculty Center at UCLA in 1993 that resulted in the creation of the Chicano Studies major dept.
Aguilar is back in the spotlight, as founder and principal […]
Jun6th2006
“One of Mr. Paulson’s first briefings from the Treasury staff should be about what high taxes have done to the economies of Europe. According to research by Nobel laureate Edward Prescott and by economists Steven Davis and Magnus Henrekson, the high tax rates in Europe have reduced work effort and distorted the industrial mix. The […]
Jun5th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 0 Comments“Today, the United States is more security conscious — 9-11 did that. New security concerns have a subsidiary effect: an increased emphasis on immigrant assimilation. Most new Americans learn English and salute the flag. However, radical “multiculturalists” (many drawing paychecks at U.S. universities) urge separatism. Their abrasive identity politics lacks political traction, but they have […]
Jun3rd2006
“Bill Clinton is also a defender [of his wife’s continued support for the Iraq war]. At a meeting of a group of well-heeled liberal donors called the Democracy Alliance this month in Austin, he lost his temper when an audience member suggested that Hillary Clinton should follow the lead of 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee […]
Jun2nd2006
“Perhaps the ugliest side of professors is the conviction that specialized knowledge about a few narrow subjects confers intellectual and moral authority on matters about which one knows almost nothing. How is it possible, we wonder, that students who do not share our fascination with the English Civil War and Marxism can somehow also be […]
Jun1st2006
Craig J. Richardson, associate professor of economics at Salem College and the author of The Collapse of Zimbabwe in the Wake ofthe 2000-2003 Land Reforms, writes:
Few countries have failed as spectacularly, or as tragically, as Zimbabwe has over the past half decade. Zimbabwe has transformed from one of Africa’s rare success stories into one of […]
Jun1st2006
“Pride: If it does nothing else, the process of becoming a professor should involve the recognition of how little one knows. Even in the smallest subfield, there are always new questions, and revolutions in thought arrive with the regularity of new generations of scholars. Perhaps the evident pride of professors is based upon a secret […]
