In case you missed it on the George Bush & Aids post, my brother and I had another exchange, in the course of which I formulate what I consider a truly conservative economic ideology: He says: OK. I (“Dr. Veith’s” younger brother who is still
In case you missed it on the George Bush & Aids post, my brother and I had another exchange, in the course of which I formulate what I consider a truly conservative economic ideology: He says: OK. I (“Dr. Veith’s” younger brother who is still
If Ben Affleck is right, a slaughter that approached Holocaust proportions happened, but hardly any of us noticed: Ask many Americans to name the bloodiest war since World War II and chances are that most would not know the answer. If you told them it
Bush haters, will you at least give him credit for saving some 5 million lives in Africa, due to the AIDS initiative that he was responsible for? Bono, at least, does. In the past 10 years, HIV infections have dropped by 20 percent. Medical experts
A Virginia man sped by a stopped school bus, violating this law: “A person is guilty of reckless driving who fails to stop, when approaching from any direction, any school bus which is stopped on any highway, private road or school driveway for the purpose
Once again, this blog scoops the mainstream press. You might remember a discussion of Monopoly vs. Settlers of Catan between my brother and tODD not too long ago. Finally the Washington Post takes up these board games, only without the depth of analysis: More than
Ireland may have saved civilization at one time, but now Ireland may be pulling down the European economic system. Robert Samuelson explains what is going on with the Irish economic collapse and the European bailout of yet another country in the Euro-zone: That Ireland, after
The latest ideological buzzword is “exceptional,” as in, “America is exceptional.” Republicans Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich are accusing Democrats–and President Obama in particular–of not believing in “American exceptionalism.” See this rather biased article for an overview of the
Here is another proposal for how to cut the deficit. This one suffers from a toxic premise: There is a way to cut budget deficits without raising tax rates. “Tax expenditures” are the special features of U.S. income tax law that subsidize mortgage borrowing, health
tODD has solved the mystery of why comments on this blog that mention “socialism” or its variants get treated like spam, exiled into a spam world until they are “released” whenever I think to check it. Look closely at that word. Specifically its third through
In a discussion of how Roman Catholic church bureaucracy and the American Academy of Religion both try to keep the lid on supernatural experiences, the notable Lutheran sociologist Peter Berger cites some interesting etymology: Sociologists who deal with religion often like to refer to the
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