I love debate, as all of you here know, but when someone picks on Mark Levin –...
Month: April 2010
One response to the debate over conservatism and “epistemic closure” has been to argue that, well, conservatism...
As an update to this earlier post, Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives rules have passed out of committee.
I have to say my Glee predictions turned out to be truer and materialize faster than I...
Well, this is a must-read. Jim Manzi takes a baseball bat to Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny:
Jason’s 4/20 cri de coeur is well taken, but here’s a bit of hopeful news on the...
[updated below] I’ve been thinking about birth a great deal lately. This is likely because birth in...
My favorite highlight from Gawker’s incredibly thorough (and kind of creepy) oppo dump on Mickey Kaus’s senate...
Evidence of Stone Age inter-breeding gives new meaning to an old insult.
In The Republic, Plato attempts to translate the Sacred Order of transcendent Being into the Social Order...
Dateline: Vancouver, BC April 20th I’m starting to think 4/20 is a conspiracy perpetrated by the McDonalds...
Mark Calabria at Cato seems a little annoyed that people like Simon Johnson are hammering Mitch McConnell for his...
Michael Lind with a sharp piece in The Daily Beast reflecting on his 2001 book (co-authored with...
UPDATED …Even for a blogger. This morning I linked to a story suggesting that the EPA is...
UPDATE: I have retracted this post in its entirety.
Considered as a whole, the War on Drugs is the single worst violation of liberty perpetrated by...
“Are American women holding aviation back?” asks Amelia Earhart. This and much more can be found in...
Via Ross, Adam Irish argues for a vibrant and messy Washington DC. If only he had seen...
Writing at RealClearMarkets, John Tamny attempts to defend Goldman Sachs against the SEC’s allegations. His defense, aside...
Chris has an interesting post on financial derivatives. Rather than write a lengthy response in the comments,...