Eating Peas
Fellow Ordinaries Elias Isquith and Mike Dwyer have fired the opening shots in our discussion about the latest budget proposal from that fiscal firebrand from Janesville, Paul Ryan, and Tod Kelly (who has just been...
Tagged: government
Religious Rights, Natural Law, and the Imperfect Pragmatic
The religious freedom issue created (highlighted?) by the Obama administration’s newest healthcare mandates is a hard one for me to grapple with. Part of the reason for this is my aforementioned agnosticism. As I...
What Is Welfare For?
Writing over at The New Inquiry, Ned Resnikoff asks the Left to think a little more concretely about what it means to fetishize, as most have during the Great Recession, jobs qua jobs. Using...
Waste and Abuse
So, we’ve just narrowly averted — do we avert things in any other way? — we’ve just narrowly averted yet another government shutdown. I can’t help but feel that the magic is gone, and...
Little Republics & Little Platoons
‘Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that’s something that doesn’t matter, either to you or me. I’ve never been there, and I’m never going, nor you either, if...
Cops are never wrong
So, interesting reaction to my last post. It turns out – and I did not know this – it turns out that the police are never wrong. Ever. It also turns out that if...
Red families & blue families
My wife and I lived together for two years prior to tying the knot, though we were both still in college when we finally made our vows. We’d known each other and dated for...
Why Fact-Checking Is Important
UPDATED …Even for a blogger. This morning I linked to a story suggesting that the EPA is running a contest to celebrate the wonders of the regulatory state. The EPA is in fact running...
Education loses out in Arizona
Or at least it does in my hometown, which voted overwhelmingly against what would amount to an average of $11 more a year in property taxes to shore up a failing school budget.
For the Love of the Money (or alternatively, fiscal responsibility)
The New York Times – as is its wont – has a pretty good editorial on the need for higher taxes in the age of Obama: But, sooner than he may prefer, Mr. Obama...
“Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o’clock in the morning? That doesn’t sound very wise to me.”
In the comments to Scott’s post last week, greginak (who was one of the few to hone in on Scott’s central point) asked for the “posters to offer criticisms of their own theories.” This seemed...
A Thought on Healthcare
Reading the comments to E.D.’s link-fest yesterday, I noticed that there is a lot of resistance to the idea that universal health care will stifle innovation in the US. This idea is generally taken...
I like Ike
Dennis Sanders responds to my post on distrust of government and invokes Eisenhower by invoking Kelly Pipes:
Balance Sheet Recession
So I was listening to NPR this morning and a Japanese economist was talking about their “lost decade” and chalked it up to what he termed “balance sheet recession.” Basically, too many people...
the invisible heart
Yglesias highlights an interesting interview with Jeb Bush on Sweden’s education system, which in short utilizes all sorts of neat ideas like credit-based learning a la four year colleges, and voucher systems that allow...
