by Henry Oliner | Jun 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Charles Murray writes in The Wall Street Journal, The Trouble Isn’t Liberal. It’s Progressives. Excerpts: It is that core philosophy extolling the urge to mold society that still animates progressives today—a mind-set that produces the shutdown of debate...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 30, 2014 | Foreign policy, Uncategorized
Victor Davis Hanson writes in Investment Business Daily, Revisionists Have A Field Day On Why We Invaded Iraq. Excerpt: Prior to our invasion, the Kurds were a persecuted people who had been gassed, slaughtered and robbed of all rights by Saddam. In contrast, today a...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 29, 2014 | Politics, Uncategorized
A Recovery Stymied by Redistribution in The WSJ by Casey Mulligan I met a recruiter—a man whose job it is to find employees for businesses and put unemployed people into new jobs—and he described the trade-off pretty well. Stacey Reece was his name, and he said that...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 29, 2014 | Economics
Do people mind more about inequality than poverty? from Matt Ridley at his blog The Rational Optimist Excerpt: Here’s another question that I fancy the chimps would beat the people at: did poverty and inequality in Britain increase or decrease as a result of the...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
From Frontpage, Don’t Blame Bush for Al Qaeda in Iraq, Blame Obama, by Daniel Greenfield: If you believe liberal supporters of Obama and opponents of the Iraq War, regime change in Iraq disastrously destabilized the region, but regime change in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia,...
