The mortgage deduction is indeed bad policy. Alas, it's pretty much an object lesson in path dependence; when you get policies like this wrong it's almost impossible to get rid of them. But making it less regressive is potentially viable and better than nothing.
Month: February 2009
A third-stringer at Andrew Breitbart's new site Stalinist Aesthetics For Dummies starts us off with some boilerplate that reminds us that "politically correct" has become the most useless phrase in.
The New York Yankees.
I normally have a post each semester about what I'm teaching. This semester I've let events get away from me a bit, but no time like the present. The courses I'm teaching this semester are Diplomacy 750: Defense Statecraft, and Diplomacy 600: History of Strategic...
Readers of this blog will know that I approve of the primary objective of this group of scholars and litigators, which is calling for the kind of judicial term limits.
Please make it stop.Looking back on her interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson, in which Palin seemed unsure of how to define the Bush doctrine, the Alaska governor said she.
As someone who observed much of Locke's governorship first-hand, I would say that just as he looks better on paper than in practice as a national candidate, so he wasn't nearly as good a governor as he should have been. He was sort of a...
Little known fact: John Bolton was, like, a HUGE fan of the UN until the UN stuck him with the tab for lunch back in 1978. After that, it was.
Scott noted a couple of days ago that something doesn't become a "simmering controversy" because professional lunatic Alan Keyes thinks it's a controversy. That's true -- Keyes after all is.
I'm not really sure about why there seems to be an endless market for op-eds in which Will Saletan informs us that the answer to political conflict just happens to coincide with Will Saletan's normative positions on all the issues. Although, to be fair, his...
I've just read (actually re-read -- first time was about 20 years ago) Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, his 1932 study of the Spanish bullfight. There's a lot of interesting.
Would shutting down the Raptor really put 95000 people out of work? No. David Axe has the data:Problem is, that 95,000 number counts indirect employment at firms for whom the.