In the last few days, the Obama administration over-reacted to a video on the web and is blaming it on a blogger. The video showed Shirley Sherrod addressing the NAACP’s 2010 Freedom Fund Banquet. She related a story of how, years ago, she had not done all she could to help a “white” farmer. At [...]
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Fun With Numbers II
Let’s say that Jimmy Jones is in the lowest quintile (bottom 20%) income-wise. Jimmy invents a better mousetrap and sells the patent rights for millions of dollars. Suddenly, Jimmy is in the top quintile of earners and someone from the second quintile drops down into the lowest quintile to fill his place. The headline will read: “Rich Get Richer!”
On Racial Profiling
Pundits all across the political spectrum have been saying that Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal aliens is unconstitutional. On the news last night I saw the AZ governor saying that racial profiling is illegal and Arizona will not do it or words to that effect. OK, I get it. Some federal court has [...]
On “Social Justice”
With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, the clamor for “social justice” is becoming louder. But what is “social justice?” All justice is social in nature. Absent a society of some sort, there can be neither justice nor injustice. Alone on a desert island, who is there to treat you unjustly, or justly, for [...]
Why McCain Lost
The presidential election just past was all about the economy, nothing else. The Iraq war, the Afghan war, terrorism — these were all but forgotten by most voters once the economy nosedived. But despite the economy (or because of it) John McCain could nonetheless have won. Unfortunately, he was too busy being John McCain. John McCain, [...]