I wrote here about a new study claiming that IQ, on the average, has no impact on wealth accumulation for individuals. At the end of the post I questioned if this is really true:
If you cherry pick the people with an IQ of 100 so that they have characteristics of people with an IQ of [...]

It’s back to the future with your new TV:
CLEVELAND - Buying an antenna for a high-definition television seems as out of place as using a rotary phone to make a call.
But some consumers are spending thousands of dollars on LCD or plasma TVs and hooking them up to $50 antennas that don’t look much [...]

I noted the other day that an EU official recently said it is wrong for the US to build a fence along our southern border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said: “A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that [...]

Having a higher IQ, on the average, means that you will make more money each year than people with lower IQs. This has been validated in various studies. Having a higher IQ enables you to do better in school, get into better colleges, get a better job, and solve tasks more quickly and creatively at [...]

Good news:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of the Supreme Court’s conservative bench appeared ready Wednesday to turn aside part of a sweeping campaign finance reform law with important implications for the upcoming presidential election
The question for the justices is whether “issue ads” — which are aired mainly on television by advocacy groups, corporations, and labor [...]

The mighty EU is not happy with us:
MEXICO CITY (AP) - European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Tuesday criticized U.S. plans to extend barriers along its border with Mexico, saying immigrants should not be treated like criminals.
“A wall that separates one country from another is not something that I like or that the [...]

Boris Yeltsin has died and here is an apt comment:
Mr Yeltsin’s former prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, said: “The democratic and economic foundations he laid are irreversible. There is no way back. This was his main service to Russia.”
This is true, even if Putin has managed to bottle up freedom a bit for now.
I have always [...]

I don’t follow or care much for celebrity gossip, but this was hard to ignore. Alec Baldwin, a darling of the left, gets really ugly talking to his 12 year old daughter (hear phone message here). You would think that this would hurt his career …. but nah, Hollywood forgives all as long as your [...]

An Iraqi blogger writes:
Thus a middle course, which seems to me a sensible alternative, is for the U.S. and allied forces to withdraw to secure bases within Iraq and concentrate on providing training, material and strategic support to the Iraqi forces. This of course, hinges on bringing up these Iraqi forces to the required level [...]

This guy messed with the wrong older lady:
WAYNESBURG, KY. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that probably has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.
Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after [...]

Some reactions to today’s Supreme Court ruling that the 2003 law banning partial birth abortions can stand:
“This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman’s right to choose and recognized the importance of women’s health. Today’s decision blatantly defies the Court’s recent decision in 2000 striking [...]