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… and count his votes. Why white evangelical leaders are pushing comprehensive immigration reform.
Archive for July, 2010
July 17th, 2010
Category: Affordable Care Act, Public management
The National HIV/AIDS strategy was released on Tuesday. The plan deserved greater appreciation and scrutiny than it got.
July 16th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Health Care
If 10% of health care dollars are flat-out stolen, then it was a mistake not to include fraud control as a major part of health care reform. But it’s not too late to fix that mistake.
July 15th, 2010
Category: The Dysfunctional Senate
How much better a deal could Harry Reid have gotten on financial reform if Russ Feingold had voted “No” on final passage but “Aye” on cloture?
July 15th, 2010
Category: Academic Labor Market
A successful academic career requires publishing more papers than anyone has important, valid, and new ideas. It greatly helps to own a paper-generating machine. That creates an environmental niche for tendencies of thought that enable the formulaic production of papers not incorporating significant new thought.
July 15th, 2010
Category: Law Notes, Spirituality and Religion
The destruction of the Temple was one of the best things ever to happen to the Jewish people.
July 13th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
… where smart, sensible people are close to panic about the security situation in the north, especially Ciudad Juarez. When I asked whether there was the prospect of mobilizing civil society, as opposed to the state machinery alone, against the handful of drug trafficking/bandit gangs that are terrorizing the country, I got an interesting response: [...]