Lie to me. I promise, I’ll believe. -Cheryl Crow Every man knows that when answering the question posed in the title that he does so at his own risk. It’s a typical non question, designed more for adulation on demand than an honest answer. And you have seen it before, or one of a...
(Authors note: For those interested, Chuck Ross did an excellent piece of writing on this, in The Sexual Peak Myth, He approaches the subject with a good bit more scientific diligence than I am willing to do here. I have already accepted that the subject is mythical and am much more interested in posing...
Al Gore’s bogus green enterprises have pulled in some major public funding based on fraudulent claims; leading to the suggestion that he may eventually stand trial. There’s something more. In his obsessive lectures, it seems he’ll not be content until he’s destroyed the economy and forced his political enemies, those who he credits for...
Chief Political Correspondent for The Washington Examiner, Byron York published a commentary yesterday entitled; Cut deficit without cutting services? Start here. He discussed studies by The Heritage Foundation and others that show government workers receive salaries that are much larger than their counterparts in the private sector and pointed to Republican proposals to freeze...
Robert Bentley asks Why Are Old School Conservatives Scared of Gay Marriage? Mr. Bentley established and opines regularly in the libertarian leaning blog Conservative for Change, to which I also contribute. His view is given away by the article’s title. Young, open-minded libertarians should cast aside the cowardly bigotry of grumpy old logically-challenged conservatives....
With the possible exception of the sexual molestation of a child, rape is a crime that evokes the most visceral of responses from the average person. And for good reason. Sex that is physically forced or obtained by threat of harm sadistically reduces victims to their most helpless state, and leaves lingering damage that...
I’ve never participated in a Tea Party rally. My natural habitat is a classroom or behind a keyboard. That said, I’ve had a lot of contact with Tea Party people, and, of course, I hear the angry charges from those doing their worst to discredit the movement. For what it’s worth, here are some...
Looking back on a disordered life that I occasionally package as journalism, but that actually has more in common with the path of a large ball-bearing through a pinball machine, I don’t really think I will slit my wrists. Though it has its appeal. I mean, it’s unnerving to sail through the vastness of...
Recently, Bill O’Reilly interviewed John Stossel about the dangerous situation along Arizona’s porous border with Mexico. Stossel is probably my favorite reporter. I admire the way he demolishes popular myths, particularly economic myths. However, on the topic of how to deal with waves of illegals (some of them perpetrators of violent crime) in Arizona,...
As CNN explains it; “An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked “Climategate” e-mails found no evidence to question the “rigor and honesty” of scientists involved.†That seems to be the general conclusion offered by Muir Russell, chairman of the select group of political insiders who conducted the review. The review focused on “the...
I am making a statement less on economic theory, than I am making an observation on the message our intuitive natures are very likely receiving, many of us at least - the Obama and Krugman recipe for a utopian Now is false. It is false for the Now, and it is false for the...
When I was a young studâ€â€well, young anywayâ€â€in high school, girls were still oppressed, which meant that a guy knew he probably wasn’t going to get laid, so he might as well find a girl he really enjoyed being with. The idea slowly leaked into his hormonally disabled psyche that girls were kind of...
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the bewildering array of economic data, statistics, charts, and graphs floating around. Often, we economists can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s hard to figure out what is truly significant and what is background noise. Having made that disclaimer, I offer some data that merit your contemplation....
I was in Washington last week, meaning I was able to observe, on-site and up close, the reaction to President Obama’s remarkable switch in leadership in Afghanistan from the bizarre General Stanley McChrystal to the excellent General David Petraeus. The action certainly got news coverage, absorbing all the headlines. Most conservative sources decried the...
The iconic image of the “self-righteous” religious believer is a cliché of postmodernism. Dogmatic clerics in the middle east smile with satisfaction while they denounce the infidels. Cable TV preachers wince ecstatic eyes to heaven, praising God all the way. The famously self-righteous Jerry Falwell smirked with conviction that the 9/11 atrocities were “divine retribution”...
Based on the record, it is fair to expect that the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s choice this year will be widely criticized. It seems wise then, to weigh in early and avoid the rush. If there is any question about who was first, it should be remembered that this condemnation came a full five months...
Men’s studies gave us three decades of self-conscious, guilt-soaked sociologists’ apologies for being male. That field is now on life support. Each of a band of best-selling male cheerleaders of feminism (whom feminists themselves have rejected as unnecessary and found to be an embarrassment, since women are quite able to speak for themselves), have...
The University of Virginia has filed a petition to set aside civil investigative demands (CIDs) issued to it by the Commonwealth’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli. CIDs are akin to grand jury subpoenas. Cuccinelli’s inquiry was prompted by public disclosure  via the ClimateGate leaks  of the highly questionable academic practices of former UVA...
A few thoughts, that will probably get me lynched, on the immigration of Mexicans: Immigration is not something Mexico did to the United States, but something the United States did to itself. Decades ago it changed its laws to favor Latin immigrants, gives immigrant children born in the US citizenship, avidly employs the ilegals,...
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