This blog is not investment advice. Mainly because yours truly has no clue what to tell you to do, although some foolishly ask him, demanding SPECIFICS. As if without a specific prediction you have nothing worthwhile to say. It is absolutely true that I might have nothing worthwhile to say–but not because I fail to […]
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It’s easy in an image-filled world of instant news for conservative Christians to see Christmas as under attack. And indeed it is…anything that points to a sovereign, saving God is something that humanist religion seeks to destroy. But….this is nothing new in Christian history, nor is it indicative that God is losing control, as He […]
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Why conservatives would generally hold their nose if Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee and vote for him
18 Dec 2015
There are many attributes of Mr. Trump to praise and condemn. His willingness to take on the crazy political correctness of the left today is both. In some ways, he’s like Ross Perot of 20+ years ago; about half of what Mr. Perot said was so dead right on that it was incredible. Unfortunately, the remaining […]
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To set up today’s discussion about Mr. Trump and the latest terrorist violence, we need to review the concept of profiling. In my mind, the history of racial profiling is rightly condemned in the U.S. Like most, my own opinions on this are colored by what I’ve seen. My first experience with racial […]
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Evolutionary dreams in New Orleans
26 Nov 2015
I just got back from the Southern Economic Association, where I attended many of the sessions of the Austrian economists.* In one session, the subject was comparing Kant’s view of the process how the mind comes to know things vs. Hayek’s view. One discussant said several times that he could “tell an evolutionary story” of […]
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As I’ve related previously, Democrats seem convinced that legalized immigrants will become part of a permanent majority, and many Republicans (including especially talk-radio) seem to believe this as well. While I’m skeptical for many reasons, I have a small proposal that could take this issue off the table. Since progressive supporters of immigration make many […]
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Oh the days when our worries were only over Obamacare. But we can still worry about that too!
20 Nov 2015
In the midst of huge foreign policy concerns, societal breakdown on multiple dimensions, its easy to forget about our top concern a couple of years ago: the government takeover of our health care system. We predicted disaster, and Obamacare has never been popular with the American people. It came at great cost to the Democratic party, […]
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Paris. Far away, but ever so close.
16 Nov 2015
Most of the world was horrified on Friday evening; in the U.S. it was coming home to see horrible reports of terrorists executing concert attenders one by one. Over the weekend and continuing today, many are wrestling with how the world will respond, as well as the U.S. Mrs. Clinton tried for some separation from […]
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Yesterday’s headlines included Rasmusson’s poll results on how many people want the government to prosecute people who don’t believe in global warming. The title of the article, Little Support of Punishing Global Warming Foes, belies the seriousness of the actual results. Let’s summarize the results, (copied from the Rasmusson link): 68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose […]
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Barack Obama: The $20 Trillion Man
02 Nov 2015
“Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster.” So began the narration to one of my favorite boyhood television shows in the mid-1970s. The […]
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