This Berean thinks so–so let me defend why. I was quite surprised when I heard the Biden Administration say that they had many Nobel economists* endorse the “Build Back Better” plan, but I was especially surprised that the Biden administration claimed these economists said the plan would ease inflationary pressures. I figured there had to […]
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US Debt Increase: Without it must we default?
05 Oct 2021
One of the continuing tropes we see around every debt limit extension is: 1) if we don’t extend the debt we force the government into default, and 2) the U.S. has never defaulted on its debt, and finally 3) that would force the U.S. to pay much higher interest rates in the future. So let […]
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How Equal are Women and Men?
27 Sep 2021
To say that Bereans are out of step with the times, and that we are, so to speak, “on the wrong side of history,” is axiomatic. We are not reflexively conservative, but we do begin with the premise that not everything that has gone on before is systematically wrong or evil. Indeed, we tend to […]
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Democrats “cast off restraint”
23 Sep 2021
In 2015 I penned a post on Proverbs 29:18, commonly quoted as “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Today I think it’s time to come back to that theme. In my original post, I argued that the common meaning from the KJV doesn’t capture the Bible’s intent, with the ESV (and NASB/NIV/NKJV) translation […]
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From their classic textbook, Universal Economics: Not only are violations of ethics more likely to prevent successful market activities but they are arguably more powerful in the economic market than in the markets of political and social exchange. Ask whether a seller/supplier or a politician tends to make more reliable promises. Which will suffer most, […]
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Readers should listen to (or read) yesterday’s The Daily Briefing by Al Mohler first, which chronicles Joe Biden’s twisting in the wind on the position of Abortion before engaging in my post. Ever since the fiasco in the Garden, humans have felt the weight of the curse. In Genesis 2, the man and his wife […]
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One of the great privileges of my time serving in the U.S. Air Force was the assumption of command of the 1st Air and Space Test Squadron at Vandenberg AFB California in 2006. While there are many higher and strategically consequential command positions, most military leaders will agree that this level of unit command is […]
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Mr. Biden’s Victorious Surrender
17 Aug 2021
Let’s agree that Mr. Biden was dealt a bad hand in Afghanistan. Many previous administrations* had failed to deal with the quagmire, and there certainly was no good set of options available to any president. But was it possible for Mr. Biden to play his cards any worse? What he has done, and what he […]
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WARNING: Slightly wonkish today. But worth it! One of the important insights of Public Choice economics (which analyzes the public sector through the same premise of action by self-interest which governs the private sector), is that you have to understand the political economy of actually implementing any proposed policy. The policy that is amazing in […]
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Don’t be safe!
15 Jul 2021
Ok, maybe this is more of a rant than usual. Maybe even a diatribe. But I’m getting so sick of hearing one of the new farewell slogans that emerged in the Covid-19 era: Be Safe! Be Safe is a replacement for the slogan most of our older readers may recall their parents telling them (and […]
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