Saturday, January 24, 2004

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TOO MUCH CHOICE? I suppose I should comment on the latest psychology findings just gleefully paraded in the NYT -- to the effect that t...

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ELSEWHERE I have just posted here another email from one of my scientific correspondents about unscientific scientists. I liked the ...
Friday, January 23, 2004

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TREAT MUSLIMS THE WAY THEY TREAT US In response to my recent post about the ban on Muslim headscarves in France, I received the foillowi...

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ELSEWHERE Illegal immigration to the USA does cost the good old U.S. taxpayer heaps but who cares about good law-abiding citizens? I...
Thursday, January 22, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Bush did not cause the recession The true nature of recessions always confounds the prevailing economic orthodoxy. H...

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ELSEWHERE How awful for the Left : Life in the Western world has continued to improve steadily throughout the last century. For all t...
Wednesday, January 21, 2004

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SIMPLE ECONOMICS AGAIN Awkward facts from Walter Williams : "46 percent of poor households actually own their homes; 76 percent ha...

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ELSEWHERE Brazil is a large and important country but I am having trouble working out what to think of the political situation there. O...
Tuesday, January 20, 2004

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SOME IMMIGRATION REALISM GWB's Hispanic "guest workers" will have children -- who will be automatically U.S. citizens be...

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THE GREENIE NONSENSE AGAIN PID has a discussion of vested interests and global warming. The global warming mania has in my view bee...

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ELSEWHERE And fake science is not confined to Greenie issues. Frank Furedi is one psychologist who is always worth reading and his late...
Monday, January 19, 2004

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MORE BLACK EYES FOR THE GREENIES Fake food scares : "In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, organic-farming cheerleader Mi...

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ELSEWHERE The cricket was on in my home town of Brisbane yesterday -- a one-day international match. I could hear the roars of the cro...
Sunday, January 18, 2004

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES Political extremists of both Left and Right have always loved their conspiracy theories but such theories now seem ...

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ELSEWHERE My mention yesterday of the demand for legal polygamy brought this response from one reader: "Polygamy is already ...
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...