John Edwards is running for president. Make that Mr. “It only takes $15 billion to wipe out poverty Edwards” is running for president.
John Edwards is a believer in the Great Society Phase II. The Great Society Phase I is still in place and has done much more harm than good (try taking a walk sometime [...]

Regarding using the death penalty, some cases are difficult to decide, but in the case of Saddam it wasn’t. If a mass murdering dictator, whose crimes have been documented for decades, does not deserve the death penalty - then who does?
Using the death penalty (by hanging) for Saddam was an Iraqi decision, but it also [...]

Tyler Cowen, of the Marginal Revolution blog, today proposes (via Half Sigma) making 401k plans universal and then subsidizing the 401ks for the poor. That is one way to consider going. I have thought quite a bit on the subject of how to best provide subsidies to the poor. Personally I don’t like the idea [...]

Regarding former President Ford:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - His deliberate manner of speaking, some highly publicized mishaps and a recurring Chevy Chase bit in the early days of “Saturday Night Live” helped advance the notion that Gerald R. Ford was a bit of a bumbling stumbler.
In fact, Ford was one of the nation’s fittest and most [...]

Perhaps you have seen the new movie We Are Marshall. I recall in 1970 when my future brother-in-law, a freshman on the Marshall football team, came home and told about the tragedy. I recall him saying how he was supposed to be on the plane that day, but by a stroke of fate he wasn’t. [...]

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Marine Major Ben Connable wrote an op-ed piece in the NYTs last week describing what often happens when US troops withdraw from an area of Iraq, at least in Anbar province:
American presence might be likened to a control rod in a nuclear reactor: Leave it in place and the potential energy of the insurgents and [...]

I went shopping with my wife today for Christmas presents for my daughters. We looked at jeans and a purse that my older daughter wants at Nordstroms, an upscale clothing stores. The jeans (True Religion brand) were $220 and the purse (Betsey Johnson brand) was $150. This purse was a bargain. Others were $300-$500.
To [...]

Online sales are booming this year:
Online retail sales from Nov. 1 through Friday were up 25% over 2005, says Internet market research firm ComScore Networks.
ComScore says last Wednesday was likely the biggest online shopping day of the year and, with nearly $670 million in sales, topped last year’s No. 1 day by over $100 million. [...]

On this blog you may have noticed that I often bring up the topic of IQ. The politically-correct Western world generally avoids mention of IQs because it tends to raise questions of IQ differences between races and between countries. Discussing IQ differences is so charged politically that journalists, academics, and politicians carefully avoid the whole [...]