In particular, I wanted to bring (local) attention to this really nice observation from Mark H-- after an earlier one that provided nice detail on the debate:
It’s interesting how [...]
It’s interesting how [...]
Many in today's soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents would never spank their children. We congratulate our toddlers for blowing their nose (“Good job!”), we befriend our teenagers (literally [...]
Zhao Xiao, one of China's top economists, started reading the Bible in 2002 while traveling in the United States and researching a paper on American business culture....
Zhao, who lives in Beijing with his wife and two daughters, professed Christ [...]
The article summary: "All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of'" [...]
As Dr. Shetty [...]
When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn't have anticipated being accused of selling out his race.
Mr. Davis was the only black Member' [...]
[...] With Thanksgiving just around the corner, encouragement [for the unemployed] may come from an unexpected source: the Puritans.
Often misunderstood and perennially maligned, the Puritans—tested first by religious persecution and later by [...]
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Excerpts from a long article by Justin Lahart in the WSJ on some amazing research...
Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown that they test [...]
Remember that 35% tariff President Obama imposed on tires imported from China this month?...Since the tariff announcement on September 11, U.S. tire wholesalers have been warning that their sales prices to retailers will increase by about 15% on average. [...]
But I think it's terrific that liberals are finally willing to start looking at outcomes to judge a system. I say we start right away with the public' [...]
(17) America's low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries' socialist health care systems are better than ours.
America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we've been measuring these things, [...]
I love to see Malthusians gettin' a beatin' (with hat tip to and analysis by Sevens)...An eye-opening documentary called Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria is being released this week by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation—an outfit I endorse.
I dare say the film will be controversial because it [...]
"I probably wouldn't have started with evangelicals," said the Brigham Young University (BYU) professor, considering the antagonism between the two groups' [...]
From Peter Leithart in Touchstone...Last spring Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn asked Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would benefit personally from cap and trade.
"If you believe that the reason" [...]
Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades [...]
The R-rated comedy may be the most sincere movie the Coens, ever aloof and controlled, have made in their 14-film career. There's never a stray shot or a line of dialogue out of place...but there are moments when the [...]
From Suzanne Ma (hat tip: C-J), an article which starts with AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com as a springboard...Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the [...]
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One of those quirky articles on the front page of the WSJ-- this one by Timothy Martin...In most ways, Columbus is a typical Indiana [small] town....But as you emerge from the cornfields that surround Columbus and head into town, things immediately begin to look different.
To the west, Columbus welcomes you along the main highway with [...]
Cool demographic info-- in charts/graphs, tables and maps-- from Census Bureau data (hat tip: World)... [...] Black leaders constantly remind Americans of our racism. Should not these same leaders protest the expansion of government control contained in the health-care [...]
So too, George Herring's massive survey of American diplomatic history runs along a double [...]
The Cambrian Explosion more than 500 million years ago is regarded as one of the most relevant episodes in the history of life on Earth, when the vast majority of animal phyla first appeared in the fossil record.
However, the causes [...]
From Thomas Woods in the Intercollegiate Review...
According to the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the result of capitalism run [...]On “the New New Deal?”, Obama claimed that by repairing bridges, expanding transit, and paving roads, we would create millions of jobs.
There is an important grain of truth in the new president’s rhetoric....Inadequate infrastructure contributes significantly to the burden [...]
But the most common deals replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better [...]
Some slightly salty language, but a great analysis of the on-going brouhaha over delivering packages, the agendas of labor unions and big business, and labor regulations. The John Murtha Johnstown–Cambria County Airport is a state-of-the-art facility. Its features include an $18 million runway made of reinforced concrete, a $7 million air traffic control tower, a $14 million hangar, an $8 million radar system, and a massive portrait of the [...]
From World...Philip Boroff's story about the $530,044 in salary and benefits made by Dennis O'Connell, who oversees props at Carnegie Hall. The rest of the stage crew-- two carpenters and two electricians-- had average incomes of $430,543 in 2008.
[...]Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby recently found that poor urban children who attend a charter school from kindergarten through [...]
The bill would require [...]
George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was [...]
On August 23, 1989, officials from the newly reformed and soon-to-be-renamed Communist Party of Hungary ceased policing the country’s militarized border with Austria. Some 13,000 East Germans...fled across the frontier to the free world...the largest breach of the Iron Curtain...kicked off a [...]
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From Marcus Walker in the WSJ with a famous AP photo...Reagan [...]
...one of the roots of the family crisis all around us—in the pews we sit in or preach to every week—is the wallet in our own back pocket.
It is no accident, after all, that our Ancient Foe first appears [...]
One [...]
A nice little observation from Peter Leithart in Touchstone...
I tell a joke, and you get it....we exchange a mental wink.
Humor provides a pathway into the hermeneutics of texts and communication. It also seems to provide a pathway into the sociology of communication. When the hearer/reader "gets" [...]
This video was used as the intro to the final message in their series on "FIT: Faith in Training"....some citizens are grumbling that “government needs to learn to run like a business!”
I used to think that too, until I realized I had it [...]
[...] Midnight regulation is the term of art for the spike of new regulations promulgated between the election of a new president and Inauguration Day. These new rules, often too controversial to have been adopted earlier in the president’s term, come at such [...]
On that historic evening in November, as Barack Obama definitively made passé the notion that we cannot, the president-elect’s acceptance speech signified a' [...]
McCardell...says his time on campus taught him that trying to stop college students from drinking was a fool’s errand. The 1984 federal law raising the minimum drinking age to 21 not only [...]
David Hillman isn’t the first classics scholar to have cited historical texts that suggest recreational drug use was common in antiquity, but doing so at the University of Wisconsin in 2004 almost cost him his degree. His doctoral [...]
Dutch police cited a 27-year-old man for smoking a joint in one of Amsterdam’s famous coffee shops. Smoking pot is legal there, but the man, who was not identified by the local press, mixed the pot with tobacco before rolling the joint. [...]
For hundreds of years, spas in Asia have used carp to eat the dead skin off their customers. It’s supposedly relaxing and healthy. Tuyet Bui decided that the treatment might prove popular in her nail salon in Kent, Washington. And it did. Customers [...]
Marijuana research in the United States is dominated by a lone, big-muscled monopolist: the federal government. An April report by Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical marijuana advocacy group, explains why that’s bad for both science and sick Americans.
Currently only [...]
The “Social Security surplus” has vanished. That figure has long referred to the amount in Social Security taxes collected over and above the amount the system pays out that year. The federal government spends the leftovers every year, issuing itself an IOU rather [...]
Massage therapy is the only occupation in South Korea where you must be blind to obtain a state license. When sightless masseuses learned that the state might begin licensing competitors who could see, many of them protested by lighting cars on fire and [...]
Great stuff from the Onion!
ReasonTV on the 20th anniversary of the Wall...
For all of you Macro fans out there...
