Why Political Polls Are So Often Wrong The Closing of the Republican Mind 11 Facts About The Minimum Wage That President Obama Forgot To Mention What Marco Rubio Actually Got Wrong About Philosophers Rand Paul is right: The most economically
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Economist John Cochrane wrote a 10,000 word essay, Economic Growth. Scott Grannis blogged some excerpts here: a few of them: When we say broaden the base by removing deductions and credits, we should be serious about that. Thus, even the holy trinity of
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Democrats Asked for Obamacare but Now Try to Duck Out of Paying for It by Kevin Williamson at National Review The teachers’ unions, it should be noted, are the biggest political spenders in the country — not the NRA, not
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From The Death of The American Welfare State by Daniel Green Field at Sultan Knish Birth rates for women on welfare are three times higher than for those who are not on welfare. Within a single year, the census survey found
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I have considered the Trump and Carson ascendance a side show. While I understand the frustration with the existing political landscape I do not jump to the conclusion that experience in politics is a liability. Just because a doctor is
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From The Wall Street Journal, Bernanke and the Slow-Growth Crew by Peter Wallison The regulations and restrictions on small banks have most acutely affected small businesses, particularly startups. Though most new employment in the U.S. economy comes from small business,
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An excerpt ran in the Wall Street Journal: Ben Sasse on the Senate From Sen. Ben Sasse’smaiden speech on the Senate floor, Nov. 3: I’m home basically every weekend, and what I hear—and what I’m sure most of you hear—is some
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Michael Shermer reviews Matt Ridley’s The Evolution of Everything in The Wall Street Journal excerpt of the review Examples abound in Mr. Ridley’s analysis. To cite a few: “The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm
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From Kevin Williamson at National Review, Obamacare is Dead : Insurance is, by its very nature, always forward-looking, considering events that have yet to come to pass but that may be expected and, to a reasonable extent, predicted with some
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from The Wall Street Journal Encouraged by the Feds, Cities Are Punishing Business by John Ella The challenge for employers is not only the cost of higher wages or paid sick time. Multistate employers compelled to monitor new developments in
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From The Death of The American Welfare State by Daniel Green Field at Sultan Knish Between 1990 and 2010, the number of immigrants over 65 doubled from 2.7 million to 5 million. 25 percent of these senior immigrants were over
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From National Review, Hamilton and Jefferson: The Deserving and the Deserter, a fascinating comparison and myth busting comparison between Jefferson adn Hamilton by M.D. Aeschliman “The Constitution did more than just tolerate slavery,” Chernow writes, “it actively rewarded it.” The
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From Robert Samuelson at The Washington Post, The coming middle-class tax increase There is a broader message here. Both parties have constructed rationales for avoiding middle-class tax increases, which would be highly unpopular. It’s not that these rationales are illegitimate: The
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Economist John Cochrane wrote a 10,000 word essay, Economic Growth. Scott Grannis blogged some excerpts here: a few of them: The popular debate is about “more” vs. “less” regulation. Regulation is not more or less, regulation is effective or ineffective, smarter or dumber,
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from the Wall Street Journal, The Corporate Tax Political Divide ‘Why is the tax code making it better for foreign companies to invest in the United States than U.S. companies?” That was the pungent question posed by Pfizer Chairman and CEO Ian Read in an
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NASA study: Net gains for Antarctic ice sheets GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 31 (UPI) — According to a new NASA study, ice sheet gains outweigh losses on the Antarctic continent. The findings conflict with those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
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