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A very close friend of mine who is rather more conservative than I am (and that perhaps is just a tad of an understatement) put me onto this movement: http://www.apportionment.us Basically they want to increase the number of representatives making up the federal House of Representatives (aka Congress). I can’t say I’ve fully analyzed the pluses [...] Take this chart from WikiPedia commons: U.S. GDP 1910 through 1960 What’s interesting about it is it would seem to put truth to the lie that it wasn’t the New Deal that ended the depression, but World War II. However if you look at the chart, you’ll see that essentially before WWII started, GDP was back on [...] Conservatives, but particularly those of a “Libertarian” or Ayn Rand ilk, tend to expound the virtues of “free markets” or “perfect markets” or “efficient markets“. The basic theme of all of these is a sort of “freshwater economics” view that the government should be completely hands off and non-interventionist (ie: “laissez-faire“) when it comes to [...] This is a post card I’ve recently received (ie: post banking meltdown) from a certain financial company a couple of times: Now, if you follow the URL given on the post card, what do you find? Not much. In fact it looks in fact like a “No catches. No surprises.” deal. But how can they afford to [...] “War is a dreadful thing, and I can respect an honest pacifist, though I think he is entirely mistaken, What I cannot understand is this sort of semi-pacifism you get nowadays which gives people the idea that though you have to fight, you ought to do it with a long face and [...] Sometimes truth truly is stranger than fiction. That is, you hit a document, web site, video, audio recording, opinion, whatever where you just can’t believe what you’re reading. Did they really say that? Did they really admit to that? Are they really willing to show so much of the sausage making? You’d think [...] I have to admit at some level even I have a hard time labeling these guys as “terrorists”: AP News – A ninth suspected member of a Christian militia group that prosecutors say was preparing for battle against the Antichrist and the U.S. government is to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court, the U.S. [...] From “My Father’s Keeper” by Stephan and Norbert Lebert, a book of interviews with children of Nazi leaders: Himmler’s name and home have a particular – a particularly grisly – significance for Martin Bormann [Junior, son of Martin Borman Senior, famous Nazi]. About a year before the end of the war he and his sisters were [...] From Dan Froomkin via Brad Delong: Is America the “land of opportunity”? Not so much. A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries. From what I’ve seen of Europe (my wife is [...] I’ve been thinking recently about conservatives decrying liberals for support of government intervention (aka “Liberal Fascism“). The argument goes that liberals are the enemy because we want to sap and impurify the perfection of free market capitalism. Or more seriously, that our misguided belief that government has a positive role to play, threatens the fabric of [...] |
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