Media Matters Criticizes Me (sort of) and Unknowingly Makes a Major Concession in the Process
So Media Matters, a truly unbiased organization if there ever was one, ran an article criticizing conservatives for denying the alleged wage gap between men and women. The article particularly criticized Alex Castellanos, who got into a bit of… Continue reading
Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams on the Minimum Wage
Two legends discuss the problems behind the minimum wage, another good intention (well maybe) with unintended consequences (well, maybe again). Another great video from LibertyPen’s YouTube channel:
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Differences ≠ Discrimination (necessarily)
It's Not This Simple Folks
Say you’re walking home on the wrong side of the tracks late at night and you see a young, black man walking toward you. Do you become nervous? If so, does that make you a… Continue reading
Thomas Sowell on the Wage Gap
So I’ve been getting some flak in the comments for my articles arguing women don’t make less than men for the same work and own much more than 1% of the world’s wealth (nothing on the one saying the female/male… Continue reading
Tough Teachers
With mid-term elections in full swing, a plethora of campaigns are preaching education reform. Being a teacher may be as tough as its ever been considering school funding issues, increased class sizes, constraints with disciplining children, and generally teachers… Continue reading
Nullification and Civil Disobedience
Nullification has long been thought of as a dead issue, but it has made a bit of comeback of late. The issue is whether states can nullify, or not enforce, federal laws they find to be unconstitutional. The constitutionality and… Continue reading
Intellectuals and Economics: Thomas Sowell Cuts Through the Fog
Intellectuals have some very bad incentives according to renowned economist Thomas Sowell. He defines an intellectual as someone's who's end product are ideas (i.e. not an engineer, scientist, medical doctor, etc.). While admitting that he himself is an intellectual, he condemns that lunacy that pervades the intellectual community. The problem is there are no checks on their ideas. If an engineer builds a bridge and it collapses, that engineer has failed. However, if an intellectual pushes for certain policies that turn out to be disastrously wrong, they rarely face any ramifications for this whatsoever. Continue reading
Did the National Health Service Let 20,000 Brits Die?
"Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the [British National Health Service], it was revealed yesterday," according to Daniel Martin of The Daily Mail. These unnecessary or unnecessarily quick deaths had to do with patients being refused cancer medication for rare forms of cancer. Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: The Wage Gap
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