Current Affairs
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The main reason I haven’t been interested in watching Mad Men is that I was pretty certain it would be impossible for the entertainment industry to produce a tv show set in the late ’50s-early ’60s without including a lot of self-congratulatory stuff about how much more enlightened we are than those pigs. I find it…
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From Toward a Truly Free Market: There are certain tendencies in human beings that allow us to make lawlike statements. People do tend to buy more of a product when it is cheaper, and they tend to make more of that product when it is dearer; between these two tendencies, we really can posit supply…
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In a striking coincidence, I received a review copy of this book on the same day I posted those comments about the new Distributist Review. The book is by John Médaille, the Review‘s editor, and is subtitled “A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More,” and it carries a…
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I've never seen The View but I gather it's a women's talk show on which Obama appeared yesterday. This image certainly captures a significant element of his appeal.
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If you don’t know what this is about, don’t worry about it. If you do: I don’t think the Tea Party is in its essence racist. I don’t think the NAACP is in its essence racist. It’s time, it’s far, far past time, for all of us to stop actively looking for occasions to call each…
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As I've mentioned before, I really have not wanted to reflexively blame the Obama administration for not doing more to contain and collect the oil spewing out of British Petroleum's disaster. But I keep hearing more and more stories of delays, red tape, and inefficiency. This column by Winston Groom in today's Mobile Register crystallizes my…
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Sunday Night Journal — June 20, 2010 I caught only the last few words of Mr. Obama’s Tuesday night speech on the Gulf Coast oil spill, and have just now tracked down the text and read it (you can find it here). As you may have heard, the speech was not especially well received, even…
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(Hat tip to Ellen)
Light On Dark Water 