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- O-care better than the Commerce Clause, Part II
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- $800B Keynesian epic fail
- Dang, this O-care is better than the Commerce Clause
- Polling looks hopeful in critical WI recall election
- He is who we thought he was
- It’s not *nice* to be unconstitutional
- If you don’t have the law, or the facts…
- Democracy deficit
- European capitalism has things to recommend it, if…
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Book review: Models Behaving Badly
Bringing ethics into his analysis, Mr. Derman has no patience for coddling the folly of individuals and institutions who over-rely on faulty models and then seek to escape the consequences. He laments the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, when … Continue reading
APOF XLII
Gliese 581g may be the first exoplanet discovered in a Goldilocks zone, but it’s tidally locked (as our moon is with us) so the only possible habitat would be on the border between perpetual darkness and light. Preliminary results, more … Continue reading
…Catchy monkey, Part II
In honor of Meryl Streep’s performance in the soon-to-be-released The Iron Lady, about which I’ve read Streep (typically) absolutely nails her character while the movie (typically) slights right-of-center policy success. Here is the Iron Lady – prophetic in 1996! – … Continue reading
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“You are a better people than your movies say”
Good Noonan today, here she is on our movies’ influence on our standing in the world: We are at a point in our culture when we actually have to pull for grown-up movies, when we must try to encourage them … Continue reading
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‘Tis the season for compartmentalization
This year I’ve grown more aware of the four Christmases in my life: (1) the religious holiday which I celebrate with church, family, and like-minded friends; (2) the nostalgic traditions which I love but honestly have little to do with … Continue reading
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Gifted rhapsody vs. wisdom
VDH writes on the different intelligences of the last three presidents. I’ve argued before that there’s more to the office than contemporary perceptions of IQ. In short, the myth of Obama’s brilliance was based on his teleprompted eloquence, the sort … Continue reading
Softly softly, catchy monkey
The democracy deficit in Europe is hitting the fan. If you have a currency, you must also have a government, and the peoples of Europe are not yet ready to unite (submit) to the Franco-Prussian axis. The club med countries … Continue reading
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It’s about control, not science
James Delingpole, author of Watermelons, interviewed at Uncommon Knowledge, speaks to the persistent threat to liberty in the human heart – the collectivist impulse that recurs again and again and again, and takes many forms. At the present moment, he … Continue reading
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APOF XLI
NASA’s Kepler mission confirms the first planet orbiting in the “Goldilocks” zone around a star similar to our sun. The Kepler team announced 1094 new planet candidate discoveries, bringing the total to 2,326. 207 are Earth-sized, 10 of which may … Continue reading
The redistribution game is alot harder in an open economy
Two decades to the day after the Maastricht Treaty, did Europe just start to split up? We Euroskeptics suspect every “deal” kicks the can down the road, merely forestalling the inevitable painful divorce. Sooner or later the reality of the … Continue reading
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