Monthly Archives: April 2013

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Justice

from 20 Photos that Change the Holocaust Narrative    

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Other Forms of Gender Inequality

Christina Hoff Sommers writes Lessons from a Feminist Paradise on Equal Pay Day in The American, 4/9/13. Excerpts: Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences: instead of strengthening women’s attachment to the workplace, they appear

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California Nightmare

From the Wall Street Journal Opinion section, Allysia Finley writes The Reverse- Joads of California, 3/3/13. Excerpts: As it happens, most of California’s outward-bound migrants are low- to middle-income, with relatively little education: those typically employed in agriculture, construction, manufacturing,

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Random Thoughts 2013 04 09

It’s one thing to speak truth to power. It’s another to speak truth to fools.- HKO It takes no courage to tolerate ideas and beliefs you already hold to be true.- HKO There are very few  true liberals.  The vast

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Reynolds’ Laws

Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee and the mind behind the highly recommended blog Instapundit Reynolds First Law The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people

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Devaluing College Education

from the Wall Street Journal, 4/6/13, Ben Casselman writes Number of the Week: Youth Unemployment at 22.9%? Excerpt: Perhaps no group has been hit harder by the recession and grinding recovery than the young. The official unemployment rate for those

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The Best Looking Horse in the Glue Factory

“Another artificial factor stimulating investors’ demand for U.S. debt is the lack of alternatives. Because of Europe’s problems, investors there are limited in their choices of finding safe government-backed securities. In other words, interest rates on U.S. debt remain low

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The Irony of Economic Growth

The January 2013  issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Heather MacDonald: Optimists will argue that conservatives simply need to sell their small-government, personal-responsibility message more vigorously. Pessimists will respond that

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Debauchers of Wealth

A pot of honey attracts flies as well as bears. Bureaucrats, politicians, bishops, raiders, robbers, revolutionaries, short-sellers, managers, business writers, and missionaries all think they can invest money better than its owners.  Owners are besieged on all sides by aspiring

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The Government Mandates Higher Gas Prices and then Blames Oil Companies

  from Bloomberg Businessweek,  Why Abundant Oil Hasn’t Cut Gasoline Prices by Asjylyn Loder, Mario Parker, and Matthew Philips on March 28, 2013 excerpt: This year, the law requires U.S. refiners to blend 13.8 billion gallons of ethanol into the fuel

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The New Glass Ceiling

Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Inequality for All, 3/31/13. Excerpts:  Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is

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Keynesian Mutant Crony Capitalism

David Stockman writes Sundown in America: How Crony Capitalism has Left Us State Wrecked  in the 4/1/13 New York Times. Excerpts: As the federal government and its central-bank sidekick, the Fed, have groped for one goal after another — smoothing

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