I highly recommend Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price's report on growing income inequality by state since 1979. Some of their findings from the executive summary (you can download the PDF at the link). Lopsided income growth characterizes every state between 1979 and 2007. In four states...
Particularly given that it's already been a subject a broader discussion this year, I should acknowledge that I was wrong to say that "Iraq was just as much a fiasco".
Oh, hai. Remember thing I said about David French? About how he had written the dumbest thing on the Internet? I take it back. Vox Day now holds the honor..
This is a prologue to some further thoughts and observations in the coming days/weeks. Consider the accuracy of the following two statements, in light of this and this: 1) The Catholic Church considers the use of contraception to be a flagrant violation of God's designs and...
In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal, Lisa Wade discussed some data which contrasted justifiable homicide rates in stand-your-ground states to those without. Not terribly shocking, "In SYG states, 13.6%.
A bit more on airpower, seapower, and strategic theorizing: The ongoing debates over airpower theory, seapower theory, and strategic theory more generally have glided over three issues: the division between domains of action,.
Are televised college sports news programs or commercial events? The NCAA's legal theory, as put forth at the summary judgment hearing in the O'Bannon class action suit today, is that college football and basketball games are news events, rather than commercial events. Commercial events, NCAA lead...
If constitutional monarchy is good for anything, surely Marie-Philip Poulin will have been declared the Prime Minister of Canada before the end of the evening. Also, for Americans inclined to.
Obama has gone from nominally supporting Social Security cuts attached to conditions that ensured they couldn't pass to explicitly not supporting them, and good. This comments thread is now particularly.
We cocky Jacobin secular liberals are used to Damon Linker's moderately culturally conservative concern trolling by now. I must say, however, that this is a twist I didn't expect: The competition for worst president since the early 1930s is pretty fierce. But for my money, Lyndon...
This commercial is getting heavy rotation during the Olympics coverage. Its social theory is that Americans live in multimillion dollar houses because they work harder than the latte-sipping denizens of.
If you are like me, you know basically nothing about Ukraine and the protests going on there. This was tremendously useful. In part: More subtly, what this campaign does is.