Saturday, April 24, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS AGAIN What wonderful morality! "In 1975, the Ethiopian government nationalised the land. It meant that food produc...

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ELSEWHERE As a follow-up to my posts on the U.N. yesterday, here is some more on "Kofigate": The U.N.'s "Oil for bure...
Friday, April 23, 2004

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Aha! "The day after John F. Kerry said he would make all of his military records available for inspection at his campaign headquarter...

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THE UNITED NATIONS The United Nations: "It was in the middle of the 1970s that the late Daniel Moynihan entered and exited as th...

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ELSEWHERE A fascinating short article in the WSJ pointing out that Democrats have abandoned any pretence of idealism in foreign policy ...
Thursday, April 22, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS How a Murdoch reporter twisted the news about the 9/11 commission Rodney Dalton, New York correspondent for Rupert Mu...

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BABOONS R NOT US This story about a troop of baboons showed that if you remove all the aggressive, dominant males, everybody remaining ...

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ELSEWHERE Despite all the detail in THAT film, there is still little evidence outside the New Testament about the events of Jesus's...
Wednesday, April 21, 2004

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SOME MORE ECONOMICS Amusing: The two almost universally-known icons of American business are arguably McDonalds and Coca Cola. McDona...

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ELSEWHERE Another triumph of socialized medicine : They left a large pair of scissors inside a woman after surgery and only a demand fo...
Tuesday, April 20, 2004

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THE BRITISH DISEASE Tony Blair's U.K. government has been caught ENCOURAGING massive immigration fraud: "It is hard to exag...

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ELSEWHERE There is an intellectually rigorous paper from some economists here (short PDF) which treats Islamic martyrdom as a supply an...
Monday, April 19, 2004

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STERNBERG'S "TRIARCHIC" THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE Although I am a psychometrician by trade, my specialty is the measurement o...

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ELSEWHERE Under the heading "The wimps of war" Dick McDonald points out in his latest posting that those who blame GWB for l...
Sunday, April 18, 2004

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THE "SHORT AMERICAN" NONSENSE I am rather surprised that the story about some Europeans being taller than Americans has attrac...

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ELSEWHERE Big surprise for the Democrats : "The Tax Foundation recently announced Tax Freedom Day fell on April 11 this year. Tax ...
Saturday, April 17, 2004

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DON'T FORGET HISTORY: MAKE IT Chuck Colson has this very reasonable warning: "We Westerners forget history. We forget th...

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ELSEWHERE Canada's National Post newspaper has started a blog for its editorial board which is surprisingly conservative. They ha...
Friday, April 16, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS AGAIN How outsourcing creates jobs : "Job creation is the number-one issue in the Presidential election. And yet, ...

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ELSEWHERE Comment from a reader about the 9/11 "Commission": "John Ashcroft just told it like it was yesterday - he said...