I wonder what Yasheng Huang would think of this argument... During its decades of rapid growth, China thrived by allowing once-suppressed private entrepreneurs to prosper, often at the expense of the old, inefficient state sector of the economy. Now, whether in the coal-rich regions of...
Month: September 2010
Women's Justice Center in California asks how law enforcement could be made more responsive to the needs to children and women, particularly in domestic violence situations. They suggest Civilian Oversight.
Lawrence Meyers disagrees with Roger Ebert. All well and good. However, the reason Meyers disagrees with Ebert? Yet I have to wonder if the physical and mental trauma Roger has.
The politics of extending Bush's upper-class tax cuts are indeed straightforward. If you win and just extend them for lower brackets, fine. If you lose, you still win: you have a political issue, and the new policy status quo would be much better than extending...
All your Bloggingheads are belong to us now.
In honor of the trend of "How did I get it wrong" posts, this is a brief examination of how I managed to get it right on Iraq. Revisiting correct.
Yep, Glenn Reynolds has still got it. His latest crackpot claim is that "eliminationist rhetoric" is far from confined to one nut who took hostages at the Discovery Channel but is prevalent among contemporary environmentalists. His "evidence" for this assertion is as follows: The transparently...
The XXers have done what I was too lazy to do with respect to the NYTBR's treatment of female writers, and the data supports Weiner's position (at least on the.
Rick Santorum's presidential hopes. Howard Kurtz's patience Serious journalism. Sadly, I believe these are both overreactions.
[I'm breaking this review into separate posts. Part II will be up tomorrow.] David Axe's War Is Boring belongs, in a very general sense, to the grand tradition of American road trip narratives. Unlike Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, in which the Nobel Laureate set out...
Via Matt, Marty's on a bit of a roll today: But, frankly, Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims. And among those Muslims led by the Imam Rauf there.
The Pakistani Taliban has been designated a terror organization by the State Department. On the face of it, this would seem to be a no-brainer. The group has bombed minority.