Saturday, January 17, 2004

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GREENIE CORNER A good summary of Bjorn Lomborg's findings (PDF) : "Professor Lomborg does believe that global warming is taki...

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ELSEWHERE Jeff Jacoby asks the obvious next question in the homosexual marriage debate -- Is lawful polygamy next? "Three adul...
Friday, January 16, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Unemployment and the tyranny of aggregates It was sad state of affairs when in late 2001 economic news from the US s...

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ELSEWHERE The Democrats seem to be back on the socialized medficine trail -- but they don't have to look further than New York to ...
Thursday, January 15, 2004

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SOME SIMPLE ECONOMICS Leftists still haven't learned basic economic lessons even when delivered by one of their own. This biographi...

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ELSEWHERE Boondoggle opens : Australia's billion dollar railroad to nowhere. Australia has a history of huge government spending on...
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

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SELECTED GOVERNMENTAL IDIOCY Government idiocy at its finest : "Last year Sandy Meadows, who supervises the floral department at a...

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ELSEWHERE Safire in the NYT has joined the chorus in concluding that the Iraq invasion has been of enormous strategic benefit to the US...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004

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HAPPINESS George Will has a good review of a recent Gregg Easterbrook book on happiness. The basic point, of course, is that making a ...
Monday, January 12, 2004

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WINDSCHUTTLE THE REALIST Keith Windschuttle has a good review of a book about the "Noble Savage" myth that has for so long b...

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ELSEWHERE Whoopee! "Australia has abandoned a major international measure aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that ...
Sunday, January 11, 2004

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GREENIE CORNER A nasty dilemma for the Greenies: "an MIT study says a global tripling of nuclear power generation could avoid near...

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ELSEWHERE "Former US president Bill Clinton said in October during a visit to Portugal that he was convinced Iraq had weapons of m...
Saturday, January 10, 2004

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THE DEMOCRATS ARE RELIGION-HATERS: WHY? A reader has pointed me to a good background article on how polarized along religious lines A...

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ELSEWHERE Democrat hypocrisy over tax : "Nowhere is this more striking than in the sudden scrambling of Howard Dean, the former Ve...
Friday, January 09, 2004

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OF CHRISTIANITY AND HOLINESS Regular readers of this blog will be well-aware that I often write on matters to do with the churches. I e...

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ELSEWHERE Edward Feser has a powerful article on Tech Central Station about the ideal Democrat Presidential candidate. History is mos...
Thursday, January 08, 2004

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THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE A reader writes: "Delighted to read the article on hormesis. Interestingly, it was a health physicist ca...

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ELSEWHERE Kristof in the NYT does the usual performance for that rag of appearing fair and unbiased -- as long as you don't think t...
Wednesday, January 07, 2004

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THE LEFTIST DEMOGRAPHIC DISASTER The welfare state versus the family: The Swedish experience : If the author's arguments are correct...