The conservative think tank, Heritage, publishes an annual “Index of Economic Freedom,” ranking countries by measurements that include property rights legal protections and due process ability to incorporate and engage in other entrepreneurial activities mobility of investments ability to choose freely in a marketplace This means that countries that impose restrictions on these and other …
This review of two books on modern Indian economics and politics provides on-point discussion of our concept of “political efficacy.” You may recall: The point of this article is the Indian political system has half-converted to the free market, so that its politics has embraced it only partially, diluting its benefits and limiting common understanding of …
by Prof Michael Boskin of Stanford. Let’s establish his perspective: he’s a conservative who served in the HW Bush administration. Nevertheless, he’s an honest academic, and his Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week nails it. Key points: – the ACA model is inherently defective as it treats all insured equally, which violates …
I was going to give you guys a rant on Mandela’s passing, but Juan Williams said it all the then some. This is the best eulogy I have seen so far. – Bromley —————————————————————— Juan Williams: My Meetings With Mandela Fresh from prison, he granted an interview—then quizzed me about a topic that fascinated him: …
This one was in draft form from during our class, but it reinforces a huge lesson I wanted to convey to you guys during the class, something called “confirmation bias.” Confirmation bias is the idea that one perceives evidence through the lense of preconceptions. This is how two honest people can view the same facts …
So he did it: D.C. Mayor Gray vetoes ‘living wage’ bill aimed at Wal-Mart, setting up decisive council vote Some of you predicted this, all of us wondered what would happen. Here are some of the predictable, yet ever amusing commentary: Walmar helps the poor: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/with-wal-mart-veto-dc-mayor-puts-citys-poor-ahead-of-rally-cry-for-working-poor/2013/09/14/096a646e-1c81-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html0 Walmart’s fault: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/dc-living-wage-bill_n_3914264.html Minimum wage sucks: http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/12/dc-mayor-vetoes-job-killing-anti-walmart Union president …
Nick sends this in for us: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/07/24/toyota-prius-owners-targeted-by-tire-slasher-video/ Bromley this wasn’t you was it?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Egypt: Don’t Use US Constitution As A Model “You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the …
From the Green Left Daily, 2007. Okay, it’s a little old, but the point remains. Read this article at face value, assuming it’s arguments. Then post your response to the question in this post’s title above. Wth, let’s make this an extra credit opportunity. ——————– from the web, a view on democracy in Venezuela, c. 2007 …
Misleading title, since killings by police have been routine for a long time in Brazil. Also routine is killing of police, along with a generally dysfunctional criminal justice system. Some notes from the article: Sao Paulo suffers a high crime rate, but not as high as some other regions of Brazil. Sao Paulo police kill …
This is a fascinating example of unintended consequences. You’d have thought that the President’s remarks, outlined in the article, would constitute typical political rhetoric. Not as Commander in Chief. Military jurisdiction and its thresholds of scrutiny and due process are distinct from those in civil and criminal jurisdictions. The President, I seems, stumbled across these …
*** required *** post at least one original post and one reply *** This is awesome politics. Walmart had planned on building three stores in DC (which is interesting unto itself in terms of the Walmart business model: going urban reflects the demographic change in the last 5-10 years in the repopulation of cities). Its …
The NY Times is running today a rather beautiful slideshow presentation of what happened to some of the signers of the Declaration during and after the war. The Cost of Revolution Bad things didn’t happen to all the signers, of course, most of whom lived to see the fruit of their invention. But a good …
With thanks to Alexandra for finding this article on Bloomberg, March 13, 2013. This article is for your information only. Feel free to comment. That Sickening Sugar Subsidy By the Editors – Mar 13, 2013 Sweet reason has left U.S. agricultural policy, at least judging from the latest installment in the sugar-subsidy saga. Because of …