Yearly Archives: 2014

Archive of posts published in the specified Year

The Fundamental Defect of the Compassionate State

Nov. 21, 2014

From the October 2014 issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis, William Voegeli writes The Case Against Liberal Compassion Excerpt: A first step in that direction is to note a political anomaly pointed out by Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana. Daniels

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Leftists Hate Speech II

Nov. 20, 2014

From American Thinker, Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist by Danusha V. Goska: Excerpt: Leftists freely label poor whites as “redneck,” “white trash,” “trailer trash,” and “hillbilly.” At the same time that leftists toss around these racist and classist

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Throwing The Puppy Into the Class

Nov. 20, 2014

University of Chicago economist John Cochrane has written one of the most unique and insightful perspectives on inequality in his blog, The Grumpy Economist. Read Why and how we care about inequality in its entirety. It is about 6 pages long. excerpts:

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The Solution is The Problem

Nov. 19, 2014

Economist John Cochrane writes in the WSJ- What the ‘Inequality’ Warriors Really Want Excerpts: Yes, the reported taxable income and wealth earned by the top 1% may have grown faster than for the rest. This could be good inequality—entrepreneurs start

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Noble Cause Corruption

Nov. 19, 2014

from Ed Driscoll in PJ Media, Earth in the Grubering As the Watts Up With That blog notes: Our critics sometimes dismiss skeptics as “conspiracy theorists” noting how unlikely it would be that thousands of scientists would collude. They miss the point.

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Profiting from Complexity

Nov. 18, 2014

from Jonah Goldberg on Foxnews GOLDBERG: I heard about it. But it was today doing my homework for this that I finally read up on it. I just got angrier and angrier about it. In a lot of ways this spectacle

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AGW Myths

Nov. 18, 2014

from Hot Air, What the mainstream media wont tell you about global warming by Jeff Dunetz excerpt: 4) There is not ONE climate computer model that has accurately connected CO2 to climate change. In fact CO2 is at its highest levels in

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Transfers – Taxes = Net Taxes

Nov. 18, 2014

from Carpe Diem, Mark Perry writes Adjusting for transfers and taxes reduces income inequality between highest and lowest quintiles by 50% and New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share

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Elementary Truth Ignored

Nov. 18, 2014

“ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that

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Grubering

Nov. 16, 2014

From Springer’s Blog, The Fine Art of Grubering excerpt: If cynicism and moral bankruptcy were Olympic sports, Jonathan Gruber would have at least two golds locked up. If there was a Hall of Fame for a sport called “Contempt for

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Future Consumption Denied

Nov. 15, 2014

From John Mauldin in his blog, Mauldin Economics, Where is the Growth? Yes, shrinking workforces, private-sector debt overhangs, and technological innovation are making it difficult to achieve “financially stable growth with full employment” (quoting Summers); but governments and central banks are

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Politically Caused Crime

Nov. 14, 2014

From Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit excerpts: Chicago’s murder rate in 1992 was double what it is today. The death rate was at 33.7 out of 100,000 which meant that you had a

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Reading 2014 11 13

Nov. 13, 2014

Jonthan Grubers Freudian Slip AMA vd Emmanuels 75 and out Gruber and Obama Meet the guy who found those Gruber Obamacare clips Chelsea’s rebellion Gruber under oath ? Voter Stupidity is GOP Ammo Obamacare was Designed to Deceive A Sign

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Degrading American Democracy

Nov. 12, 2014

From Commentary, Obamacare Lies and Democracy Excerpt: In a sense, Gruber’s statement doesn’t exactly break new ground. After all, if then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could say that ObamaCare had to be passed before its contents could be understood, it’s not

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Inequality and The Missing Data

Nov. 12, 2014

In The Wall Street Journal Phil Gramm and Michael Solon write How to Distort Income Inequality- The Piketty-Saez data ignore changes in tax law and fail to count noncash compensation and Social Security benefits. excerpt: The chosen starting point for

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Weaponizing Compassion

Nov. 11, 2014

From the October 2014 issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis, William Voegeli writes The Case Against Liberal Compassion excerpt: All conservatives are painfully aware that liberal activists and publicists have successfully weaponized compassion. “I am a liberal,” public radio host Garrison Keillor

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The Ends Justify the Means

Nov. 10, 2014

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber admits to deceiving the pubic in order to pass Obamacare. From The Daily Signal In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats

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Defying Julia

Nov. 10, 2014

Kevin Williamson writes Julia Lost in The National Review excerpt A funny thing happened in the “war on women” — Mia Love and Joni Ernst won, Wendy Davis and Sandra Fluke lost. The representative who will be the youngest woman ever

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Trading Places

Nov. 10, 2014

from The Sultan Knish, The Democratic Party’s Civil War is Here One is the old corrupt party of thieves and crooks. Its politicians, black and white, are the products of political machines. They believe in absolutely nothing. They can go from

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More Thoughts on the Election

Nov. 09, 2014

The stock market is moving higher, unemployment is consistently sliding, oil prices are down, the deficit is declining, and we have disengaged from unpopular conflicts. So why did the GOP do so well? The biggest reason in my opinion is

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