“But that’s why we shouldn’t have laws that enshrine any sort of profiling. If the immigration problems in Arizona are really so serious that they merit deep intrusions upon the liberty of citizens who happen to resemble illegal immigrants, than they are serious enough to intrude on the liberty of everyone. […]
Archive for April, 2010
Apr30th2010
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and ModernPolitics. 8 CommentsApr28th2010
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What’s the quickest and easiest way to create a nationwide system of segregation academies? Force people to go to school based on where they live. How do you make them even worse? Let the district lines be drawn by an unaccountable bureaucracy that claims to care about kids but actually doesn’t care how many children’s […]
Apr27th2010
From The Atlantic article “How Taxes Changed Boxing“:
“The 1950s was the era of the 90 percent top marginal tax rate, and by the end of that decade live gate receipts for top championship fights were supplemented by the proceeds from closed circuit telecasts to movie theaters. A second fight in one tax year would yield […]
Apr26th2010
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General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre made a big deal this week about GM’s repayment of the $6.7 billion in loans that the company got last year from the U.S. and Canadian governments. (GM press release here.) However, as this article points out, GM still has the $52 billion it got that was classified as equity […]
Apr23rd2010
“While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role Africans themselves played…How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood […]
Apr19th2010
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John Stossel explains.
Apr15th2010
“A recent survey by Pew revealed that 86 percent of conservatives agree that “not reporting all income on your taxes is morally wrong” compared to only 68 percent of liberals. Conservatives want lower taxes but feel they should pay what they owe. Liberals want you to pay more but don’t stress about paying their own.” — Ron Guhname
Apr8th2010
“You thought Guantanamo and phone tapping was bad when Bush was president. Here’s Greenwald on Obama’s assassination orders on a US citizen. The target and his family say the charges against him are completely false. But “officials” say he’s guilty. So no need for courts any […]
Apr7th2010
RomneyCare As A Guide To ObamaCare
Published by in Economics, HealthCare and ModernPolitics. 0 CommentsThousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts’ 2006 health insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people and small businesses.
In 2009 alone, 936 people signed up […]
Apr6th2010
Remembering Jaime Escalante And What His Experience Tells Us
Published by in Education, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Vouchers. 1 CommentJaime Escalante, the brilliant public school teacher immortalized in the 1988 film, “Stand and Deliver,” died last week at the age of 79. Cato’s Andrew Coulson writes in the WSJ about what his experience tells us:
In any other field, his methods would have been widely copied. Instead, Escalante’s success was resented. And while the teachers […]
Apr5th2010
“For several decades the most dynamic part of the US economy has been Texas. Rich people, middle-class people, and working class people are voting with their feet and moving to Houston and Dallas and Austin. Whites, blacks and Hispanics are moving to Texas. Not because of oil wealth (Louisiana has even more oil per capita), […]
Apr2nd2010
“Here’s the $64 dollar question for which I’ve never seen progressives provide a satisfactory answer. Why is per capita GDP in Western Europe so much lower than in the US? Mankiw seems to imply that high tax rates may be one of the reasons. I don’t know if that’s the answer, but if it’s not my […]
Apr1st2010
“That which Democrats vehemently and with virtual unanimity spent years condemning as a grave assault on our Way of Life — i.e., denying trials to Terrorist suspects and instead sending them to newly created military commissions — is exactly what Robert Gibbs endorsed today as just. Who can possibly defend this?” — Glenn Greenwald
