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August 2014

August 20, 2014
A couple weeks ago, Charles Krauthammer wrote a column entitled "The Vacant Presidency" the gist...
August 20, 2014
OK, just for fun:  here's a link to a blog post that an old friend...
August 20, 2014
A little bit ago, I observed that in the same way as there's a tax...
August 19, 2014
A while back, I wrote about the proposal by the progressive caucus of Chicago aldermen...
August 19, 2014
This one falls into the category of, "if this book can get published, why can't I...
August 17, 2014
Over the last couple days I've been reading two books:  the first, about pensions and...
August 15, 2014
Yesterday I wrote up a summary of Avik Roy's proposal to reform the exchanges but...
August 14, 2014
So Avik Roy, blogger at Forbes and, apparently, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for...
August 13, 2014
We've read that a part of the tensions surrounding the police shooting in Ferguson, MO...
August 12, 2014
Articles about Robin Williams are everywhere, on blogs, news sites, and my Facebook feed.  They...
August 11, 2014
The other day, I saw references to an article asking for free tampons.  I figured...
August 09, 2014
This is where Twitter works reasonably well:  Virginia Postrel linked to a blog post in...
August 07, 2014
So, in lighter news (that is, as a break from ISIS, Gaza, Ukraine, the US
August 06, 2014
So my hostile open-borders commenter is back, eager to jump into my comments about the...
August 06, 2014
Source:  , as Michiganders of a certain age will recognize, is an Oasis at a...
August 05, 2014
In recruiting undergraduate students from China to pay the bills, that is?A while back, I...
August 03, 2014
My husband and I met at the University of Notre Dame, and a couple years...
August 03, 2014
After our visit to Detroit back in March, I was able to offer some comments...
August 03, 2014
"Vacation" is in quotation marks intentionally, because the largest part of our somewhat-shortened week was...

July 2014

July 29, 2014
Detroit is celebrating its area code birthday -- yes, it's 313 years old, and local...
July 28, 2014
This is a really interesting article from the Washington Post on the influx of immigrants,...
July 28, 2014
So I was thinking about the affordable housing issue some more after my prior post...
July 28, 2014
[Originally written 7/26/14]Reiham Salam, who writes at Slate.com and Bloomberg and National Review and, well,...
July 26, 2014
Everybody's talking about the statements of Jonathan Gruber in 2012 that have been unearthed and...
July 25, 2014
According to sellmycomicbooks.com, this particular issue is noteworthy for being the first solo appearance of...
July 24, 2014
I started thinking about the whole affordable-housing issue again because of a Chicago Tribune article...
July 24, 2014
Last night Ann Althouse linked to a Washington Post piece on the birth rate, which...
July 23, 2014
(Sorry, no sources below -- I have a day job, but I wanted to type...
July 22, 2014
Because I feel compelled to let you all know that, just because I'm not blogging...
July 22, 2014
This is what I've learned, after two days of Twitter:To start with, I am currently...
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