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April 2021

April 10, 2021
I don't write as much at this blog as I used to, with other things...

February 2021

February 23, 2021
Remember the George Bush immigration reform proposal in 2006, when he claimed that he would...
February 22, 2021
Remember back last summer when the Supreme Court determined that, by parsing the Civil Rights...
February 01, 2021
  On January 6, the Babylon Bee posted an article with the headline:  "Absolute Legend:...

January 2021

January 20, 2021
Let's start with immigration. Remember the "path to citizenship" and "earned legalization" promises? -- that...
January 06, 2021
No, not an election postmortem -- I don't believe there is appropriate data that could...

December 2020

December 14, 2020
So there was a dust-up over the weekend about a Wall Street Journal opinion piece...

November 2020

November 21, 2020
In the news yesterday, the Government Accounting Office released its report on the number and...
November 16, 2020
So if I were a credentialed economist, or even had any specialized education in the...
November 10, 2020
Yes, I'm going to talk about electoral fraud, and I use that phrase deliberately to...
November 06, 2020
Regular readers at Forbes will have noticed that, as of November 1st, there is now...
November 02, 2020
Ever have one of those days, when you just can't focus on the work at...
November 01, 2020
Longtime readers will know that I post at this site much less often than used...

October 2020

October 23, 2020
If Donald Trump was trying to make corruption charges stick on Biden (the media's refusal...
October 23, 2020
It's the second presidential debate!  And here are my comments, live-blog style.  Scroll down to...
October 22, 2020
Yes, "science" in scare-quotes, because of two events which concern public understanding of science, or...
October 15, 2020
Are you watching the hearings?  Here's a rant.  Some of this I've likely said before...

September 2020

September 30, 2020
You know, it started out being funny, watching the debate turn into a shouting match....
September 27, 2020
Will you get vaccinated against covid? According to a variety of polling data, Americans aren't...
September 08, 2020
Warning - this is long.  I won't take offense if you skip to the bottom,...
September 04, 2020
Three items: First, Cycle Thresholds. In the New York Times this past weekend: "Your Coronavirus...
September 02, 2020
Let's start with the fact that I'm going to assume you've been following the case...

August 2020

August 18, 2020
You know what I mean: the claims by the Left that the federal government is,...
August 18, 2020
I have a stake in this, of course.  My youngest son was born in Germany....
August 14, 2020
Let's start with the fact that I've written on the topic of schools re-opening during...
August 03, 2020
This has been bothering me for a while, and yet I've hesitated to write about...
August 03, 2020
In the news last night:  "Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes." Here...

July 2020

July 30, 2020
Featured on NBC News on Tuesday:  "Rep. Jayapal asks that her name be properly pronounced...
July 28, 2020
My husband is German.  Well, as of two years ago, he is also American, but...
July 19, 2020
Will Joe Biden govern as the moderate that he presented himself as?  Or will he...
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