Tip: Leaders don’t matter much.
Jason posted a link to an earlier piece of his, The Tragedy Of Barack Obama the same day the Freakonomics podcast asks “It’s Election Day: Can You Really Blame the President?”
Politics
Regulatory Capture v. the Nirvana Fallacy
This is a good piece that uses the BP Oil Spill and the Net Neutrality debate to illustrate what "Regulatory Capture" means. It's a term I've heard before but this served to clarify it quite a bit. The [so-called] liberals’ fury at the President is almost as astounding as their outrage over the discovery that …
Immigration and the American Underclass
I’m hoping that immigration reform happens sooner rather than later. In the meantime, some positive news about the effects of immigration on the “underclass” was released today by the Cato Institute. Free Trade Bulletin no. 38: As Immigrants Move In, Americans Move Up | Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies As plausible as the argument …
Most children of unauthorized immigrants are U.S. citizens
This poses an interesting dilemma for people who want to deport unauthorized immigrants to their home countries. Do you break up the families? What happens when they grow up and they can vote? I know in my family, we don’t forget the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the early-mid 90s that spurred us to become citizens. Pew …
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GOP’s got our backs on government waste …
The hypocrisy of the GOP is hilarious and sad at the same time. Hit & Run > Coming Soon: “Billions of Dollars Being Wasted” – Reason Magazine It’s a nice idea and one that the GOP really should have thought about more seriously when it controlled all branches of the federal government and wasted our …
QOTD – Libertarians have too much power
Hit & Run > What Are the “Failed Theories That Helped Lead Us Into This Crisis”? – Reason Magazine Just remember, its not only the libertarians fault that this whole mess got started through our control of the republican party through Bush, its also our fault that Mr. Hopey McChange got elected and the democrats …
We dodged a (Palin) bullet
If McCain has won, We could have had a VP that made Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes Scholar. I don’t want to be jumping on the “America you did the right thing” bandwagon, since all we did was vote for a president, but I’m soooo relieved Palin is nowhere near the White House. I …
Conservatives eating one of their own?
Go read Christopher Buckley’s explanation of his NR resigation – its a fascinating look at how one conservative thinks of the “modern conservative movement.” The latter now apparently means, think as we tell you to think, and disloyalty must not be tolerated. A lot of people are realizing that the current Republican leadereship, with its …
Would you vote for a creationist VP?
As if there was any chance left that I’d vote for McCain this fall, this pretty much seals it. BTW, Comedy Central last Thursday had a great movie about candidate McCain. Yeah, I’m a few days behind on that, but life is hectic with a kid. Its actually kind of nice – practically the only …
Stopping Immigrants more important than the Environment, Diplomacy
From The Price Tag for Immigration Enforcement, the crackdown on immigrants is only going to get more expensive next year. The Department of Homeland Security is asking for a 19% increase for “immigratin enforcement and border control for 2009”. Just this year, the budgets for Customs and Border Protection (CBP)and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
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