Monthly Archives: July 2013

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

“The Simple is False; The Complex is Unusable”

“Relatively simple political ideologies are satisfying because they are consistent and easy to assimilate into one’s understanding of the world. It would not be too much to say that American politics is characterized not by two dominant political parties or

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Amateur Hour

The administration will delay for one year the provision of the Affordable Health Care Act that enforces a penalty on employers with more than 50 workers. What do they expect to change in a year? We will have another year

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Is Democracy Worth Promoting in the Middle East?

John Agresto writes Was Promoting Democracy a Mistake in the 12/12 issue of Commentary. Excerpts: Sadly, trying to promote democracy in a nation that is strongly sectarian, intolerant of difference, and skeptical of the equality that gives dignity and freedom to all

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Reading 2013 07 02

Guilty of Being Southern That brings me to the ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. What the Supreme Court essentially told the nation in that case was this: The states in the South used to do some really bad things a

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Failure Becomes Grounds for More Power

Alex J. Pollock writes The Housing Bubble and the Limits of Human Knowledge in The American, 3/1/13: Excerpt: What financial shape were Fannie and Freddie in as the crisis proceeded? How bad would the effects of the shriveling bubble be? How

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