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Archive for December, 2007
Dec17th2007
Dec15th2007
A great article by Stuart Taylor.
Honesty: Hillary’s Glass House
Hillary Rodham Clinton is supposed to be smart. But how smart is it for a woman with such a bad reputation for truthfulness and veracity to put those character traits at the center of the campaign?
The irony of her potshots at Barack Obama’s character has hardly […]
Dec14th2007
“By the end of 2007, the nation’s health care bill was some $2 trillion a year, or 16% of the U.S. economy. Government is already paying 47% of it. All of the major party presidential candidates of both parties are proposing, in one way or another, that government assume more of the burden. Leading Democrats […]
Dec13th2007
Arthur Laffer On President Clinton And The Economy
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Economics, General, Inequality, ModernPolitics, Poverty and Taxes. 4 CommentsI met Arthur Laffer in July of this year, at the Libertarians FreedomFest Convention in Las Vegas. I found him to be, by far, the most entertaining and provocative speaker (He is also, btw, a HUGE illegal immigration supporter). Since then, I added him to my “Must Read Anything They Write” list of economists. […]
Dec12th2007
“In deciding on rules about combat integration, the ultimate question can’t be how to maximize women’s opportunities. Instead, it has to be how to maximize the military’s power to defeat the enemy. Clausewitz wrote that “everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.” Mixing the sexes together in an integrated combat […]
Dec11th2007
“Since electricity is generated mostly by burning coal, has anyone calculated how much pollution is created by electric cars, even though none of that pollution comes out of their tailpipes?” –Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts
Dec10th2007
“We live in times of great uncertainty when men of faith must stand up for American values and traditions before they are washed away in a sea of fear and relativism. I have never been one who is particularly comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena, and I find the pandering that typically […]
Dec7th2007
“Now that Congress has violated the First Amendment by restricting free speech with “campaign finance reform” laws, in the name of getting the influence of money out of politics, have you noticed any less influence of money in politics?” — Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts
Dec6th2007
I have not followed the primaries as much as I’d like to. It’s still too early and alot can change. However, from what little I have read, here are my thoughts on the political candidates.
As a first approximation, I really don’t like Giuliani and especially McCain, they both seem to exemplify the worst of President […]
Dec5th2007
“Not until about 15 percent of a school district’s children are in charter schools do those schools exert pressure to change the way the district functions. Of this city’s 1,453 public schools, only 61 are charters. They serve 19,000 of the 1.1 million public school students — 1.7 percent. Andy Smarick, writing in Education Next, […]
Dec4th2007
“A mere 65,000 H-1B visas for foreign professionals are allocated in the U.S. each year. And this year, as in the previous four, the quota was exhausted almost as soon as the applications became available in April. This effectively means that more than half of all foreign nationals who earned advanced degrees in math and […]
Dec3rd2007
“A 2006 nationwide survey conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement found that 56% of young people ages 15 to 25 did not know that only citizens can vote in the United States. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor exclaims, “Today, only a little more than one-third of […]
