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February 2014

February 19, 2014
That's the quote that the Chicago Tribune offers in its story today on the two-day...
February 18, 2014
So I'm not going to be able to fix the problem of high college costs....
February 17, 2014
(Tuesday morning update:  revised since originally posted with additional material.)Conventional wisdom offers two explanations for...
February 17, 2014
So I've been reading about "The Great Black Migration" (The Promised Land: The Great Black...
February 15, 2014
More fun with the BLS.gov data -- in this case, looking at the pay changes...
February 15, 2014
Have you ever been an expat in East Asia?Well, neither have I, actually.  But before...
February 13, 2014
Here, for your Thursday morning contemplation, are three graphs from the bls.gov site. The first...
February 12, 2014
Can Barack Obama, or his successor, be trusted to fully implement and successfully enforce border...
February 11, 2014
By "why I blog" I mean, of course, "why I spend my time writing about...
February 10, 2014
Somewhat off-topic releative to anything anyone's been talking about lately, but: I just wrote a...
February 10, 2014
Via marginalrevolution.com, an article in the Financial Times on the future of the German apprenticeship...
February 08, 2014
Three disparate topics:  the minimum wage, Obamacare, and illegal immigration.  But they're fundamentally all connected...
February 08, 2014
So the whole fallout from the CBO report (that is, the CBO report predicting people...
February 06, 2014
I looked at Amazon yesterday and the reviews were mixed: is a wooden or aluminum...
February 06, 2014
So I wrote about the CBO report last night, and, in the end, was pretty...
February 06, 2014
Part of the purpose of this blog is to be able to comment on articles
February 05, 2014
So I've been waiting all day to have the kids tucked in (OK, just the...
February 04, 2014
I suppose I'm showing my age if I quote Dan Quayle (hey, look it up...
February 04, 2014
This is again a sort of placeholder for something I want to write about later:...
February 03, 2014
Just a few thoughts for Monday morning: We need to adjust the terminology around immigration....
February 02, 2014
Three more thoughts on immigration, all connected to the issues of labor force.  (I haven't...

January 2014

January 31, 2014
New laptop + Windows 8 = I have very little understanding of how to use...
January 31, 2014
Actually, this post is more of a placeholder than anything, a way to push myself...
January 30, 2014
I just don't know what to make of this.The Republicans have released their "immigration principles"...
January 29, 2014
It's been said multiple times that Obama is playing "small ball," preferring smaller executive orders...
January 29, 2014
I know I should be writing on the SOTU, or on the Coburn healthcare proposal,...
January 28, 2014
That's how much the ER bill was that arrived in the mail yesterday, for the...
January 28, 2014
Is it worth the wait? Is this promised "ObamaCare replacement" any good? Let's call this...
January 27, 2014
A change of pace from my usual reading. . . A couple years ago, I...
January 27, 2014
As I may have mentioned (or maybe not) I used to think I would get...
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