Saturday, June 25, 2005

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SOME MORE ECONOMICS Debt relief is largely bank relief : "Make no mistake. This not a bailout of Africa's poor or Latin American p...

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ELSEWHERE There is a new article out in the American Political Science Review by John R. Alford, Carolyn L. Funk, and John R. Hibbing unde...
Friday, June 24, 2005

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LEFTIST EGOTISM I recently pointed out that Leftist anti-Americanism makes most sense if it is understood as mainly serving a feelgood pur...

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ELSEWHERE Methodist disgrace : "While the United Methodist Church has been quick to condemn Israel for alleged human-rights abuses, th...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

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BOOK REVIEW: THE END OF TIME BY DAVID HOROWITZ Published by Encounter Books , San Francisco, 2005 David very kindly sent me an autographed...

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ELSEWHERE Wow! The Terri Schiavo controversy is not over yet. Sherry Eros M.D. critiques the autopsy report and comes to some pretty sava...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

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CONSERVATIVE BLOGS FALLING BEHIND? There has been a bit of discussion (e.g. here ) of this article , which notes that the Leftist blogospher...

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ELSEWHERE There is a rather fun article here that interprets America as a country driven by hypomania -- the sub-clinical version of manic-...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

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TUESDAY ROUNDUP Once again I list what I think were the best posts on my various blogs in the preceding week. On Dissecting Leftism I expla...

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ELSEWHERE The Dutch talk tough : "Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams accused of being a threat ...
Monday, June 20, 2005

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SAYET RIGHT Evan Sayet is doing a great job of showing up the follies and inconsistencies in Leftism. His analyses of Leftist thinking are ...

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ELSEWHERE Stephen Eric Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is also the modern-day equivalent of a Soviet a...
Sunday, June 19, 2005

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SOME ECONOMICS "Unfair" dismissals help the unemployed : "First, less employment protection will mean more hiring and more f...

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ELSEWHERE That pesky IQ again : "People with bigger brains are smarter than their smaller-brained counterparts, according to a study c...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

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AN EXCELLENT COMMENT ON DEMOCRAT HATE-POLITICS "When Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean said the other day that the Republicans w...

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ELSEWHERE Strict ethics un-German : "A German court has upheld the right of Wal-Mart staff in Germany to flirt at work, a spokesman sa...
Friday, June 17, 2005

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AN UNUSUAL CLAIM FROM THE LEFT: DEATH PENALTY ETHICALLY COMPELLING Excerpt : "noted liberal scholar Cass Sunstein, recently wrote a pa...

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ELSEWHERE A Brit with his head firmly stuck up his anus : "Sir Gus, the present Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, said that he pass...

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The super-rich outlook : "On Wall Street, veterans speak of "f***-you money": the nice round figure a guy needs to set himse...
Thursday, June 16, 2005

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Brookes News Update The price rule will drive the US economy into recession : No economy, including the US economy, can build up masses of ...