Monthly Archives: June 2015

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

A Democratic Clinton Alternative

From Nick Gillespie in Reason Magazine, Everything’s Awesome and Camille Paglia Is Unhappy! excerpts: reason: So what is it about Hillary that bothers you? Paglia: She’s a fraud! reason: Explain how. Paglia: She can’t have an opinion without poll-testing it. She’s a liar. This is

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Trivial Bias

from National Review, When Biases Collide by Kevin Williamson: Four citations, two of them dismissed, since 1997 — that long-ago year when Herself attended her second inaugural as first lady — is the definition of unremarkable. The incidence of his

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The Ideal Progressive

from the Wall Street Journal,  Hillary’s Other Bill Problem by William McGurn; Oh, it can claim its victories, here making it more expensive for employers to hire workers, there enshrining some race or gender grievance into law, here again imposing

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Risks Too Great for Private Industry

“The case becomes even clearer if we turn from farming to other forms of business. The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are “too great for private industry.” This means that bureaucrats should

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Confusing Cause and Effect

from Barron’s, The Road to Ruin by Thomas Donlan excerpts: The U.S. learned nothing from the financial crisis. The biggest problem perceived today in the Obama administration is that the rate of home ownership is at the lowest level since

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The Illusion of Scientific Omniscience

from The WSJ, Scientific Fraud and Politics excerpt: Similar bias contaminates inquiries across the social sciences, which often seem to exist so liberals can claim that “studies show” some political assertion to be empirical. Thus they can recast stubborn political

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The New Migration

from Joel Kotkin in New Geography, The Changing Geography of Racial Opportunity: Excerpt: Perhaps the greatest irony in our findings is the location of many of the best cities for minorities: the South. This is particularly true for African-Americans who

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The House of Clinton

Jonah Goldberg writes in The National Review, The Gaslighting of America Excerpts: Hillary Clinton recognized that her ambitions could only be realized by hitching herself to her sociopath husband. No doubt that decision had its downsides, but look where she

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Gender Myopia

From Nick Gillespie in Reason Magazine, Everything’s Awesome and Camille Paglia Is Unhappy! excerpts: I am an equal opportunity feminist. I believe that all barriers to women’s advancement in the social and political realm must be removed. However, I don’t

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Very Selective Outrage over Citizens United

From Mark Hemingway in Reason Magazine, When Open Government Slams Shut: excerpt: Consider the case of organized labor. For all of the Democratic Party’s grandstanding about campaign finance transparency, documenting their biggest fund raising source turns out to be difficult

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The Edge of Legal

From The Wall Street Journal, The Clinton ‘Charity’ Begins at Home by Kimberly Strassel excerpts: The media’s focus is on Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, and whether she took official actions to benefit her family’s global charity. But

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Are Humans Problems or Solutions?

from Robert Tracinski in The Federalist, What the New York Times Didn’t Learn from Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb Fizzle excerpts: But the story is way more interesting than that. In 1980, Simon and Ehrlich made afamous bet about the future prices

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Amateur Sociopaths

from Daniel Greenfield at The Sultan Knish, The Incredible Entitlement of the Welfare Lobby excerpts: Poor urban areas have not been “abandoned” by a cold selfish nation that spends all its time watching FOX News, as Obama claims, they have

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True Selfishness

…from Cafe Hayek a quote from “Oscar Wilde’s February 1891 Forthnightly Review essay, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” – a selection that appears in the superb just-published reader, Individualism, edited by George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore:” Selfishness is not living as

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A Political Project

Rupert Darwall writes in The National Review,  On Climate, Science and Politics Are Diverging Excerpts: Predictions of an ice-free North Pole are frequently accompanied by warnings of climate-change tipping points, tripping the planet into uncharted — and, by implication, scary

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A Long Tradition of Existence

Jonah Goldberg in The National Review writes Will Hillary’s Accomplishment Deficit Be Her Undoing Excerpts: So, the best case for her is that she weathered a lot of scandals and, to borrow Robert Hoover’s defense of the Delta Tau Chi

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