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George Will is going to call for a ground troop pullout from Afghanistan. Is he right?
Archive for August, 2009
August 31st, 2009
Category: Defense and national security, Foreign Policy, Permanent campaign, Terrorism and its control
August 30th, 2009
Once again, southern California is prey to wildfires, an environmental hazard that has become commonplace as the earth has heated up. But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
August 30th, 2009
Like all attempts at bipartisan compromise, Bill Bradley’s proposed deal won’t work because it assumes good faith on the part of Republicans.
August 30th, 2009
Category: Firearms
If North Carolina permits a felon to have a firearm, isn’t he still covered by the Federal felon-in-possession law?
August 29th, 2009
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
Advantages (benefits) and disadvantages (costs) are central to any serious policy analysis. Benefit-cost analysis as practiced by regulators and the courts, however, embodies three clear mistakes: ignoring distributional issues, ignoring indirect and uncertain consequences, and measuring most injuries to individuals short of death in only pecuniary terms, rather than using the economically correct willingness-to-pay measure.
August 29th, 2009
Category: Personal moment
It takes a touch of divine grace to upstage the President of the United States from the podium at your father’s funeral. Ted Kennedy, Jr. accomplished that rare feat with his beautiful eulogy this morning. Our hearts go out to Ted Kennedy’s family today, and to the mother of his children, too.
August 29th, 2009
Category: Health Care, Wayward press
Did Janet Hook and the Los Angeles Times just get completely spun, or are they on retainer from the RNC and the insurance industry? We ask, you decide.
August 28th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
The problem with a law that covers too much is that it doesn’t cover anything very well. California has 109,000 registered sex offenders, but it couldn’t keep track of a convicted rapist on parole who was keeping a sex slave.
August 28th, 2009
Category: Africa
Astounding German charity’s innovation: fighting poverty in an African village by giving its residents money.