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8 Jul 2010, 8:12 pm by Mike Rappaport
Tom mentions this short blog post on recess appointments by John Steele Gordon. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 9:17 pm by Mike Rappaport
I am not sure this 100% true, but it is pretty close: It's odd, isn't it, the persistence of such an archaic and, as the women's studies professor would say, gendered ritual? [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 3:10 pm by Mike Rappaport
Since it is the Thanksgiving weekend, I will be giving thanks for meditation, something I have done for at least 20 minutes a day for nearly half a year. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 3:37 pm by Mike Rappaport
I am not sure how many Jews still support Israel (but I am guessing a majority), and I am not sure how many of those voted for Obama (but again I am guess a majority), but that group would appear to be comprised of a large percentage of (what Glenn calls the) rubes. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 1:48 pm
A couple of interesting posts on legalizing prostitution. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 10:55 pm
Max Boot, guest blogging at VC, writes: Two colonels of the Chinese People's Liberation Army envision "unrestricted warfare" encompassing not only traditional force-on-force encounters but also financial warfare (subverting banking systems and stock markets), drug warfare (attacking the fabric of society by flooding it with illicit drugs), international law warfare (blocking enemy actions using multinational organizations), resource warfare (seizing control of vital natural… [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 12:28 am by Mike Rappaport
I like reading Will Wilkinson, because I so often disagree with him. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 3:09 pm by Mike Rappaport
Some astounding facts about Meditation: First, once more from Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis: A person's average or typical level of happiness is that person's "affective style. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 12:10 am
Charles Krauthammer makes the case that victory is achieveable in Iraq. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 4:44 pm by Mike Rappaport
From a review by Tyler Cowen of the book by Daniel Okrent (also the creator, it so happens, of Rotisserie Baseball): What elevates Last Call is, among other things, a clear explanation of the unique confluence of events that caused it. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 3:58 pm
Greg Mankiw is a card carrying member of the Pigou Club, whose members favor higher Pigovian taxes in order to remedy externalities such as pollution and congestion while raising government revenue. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 11:56 am by Mike Rappaport
Glenn links to this story about a recent analysis of a tape of the Kent State shootings from 1970. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 12:39 pm by Mike Rappaport
Wow, these explanations from Federalist 62 of phenomena in our world are quite impressive. [read post]
20 Nov 2006, 12:22 am
Boy, can Mark Steyn write: You think Kurds and Arabs, Sunni and Shia are incompatible? [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 3:21 pm by Mike Rappaport
An entertaining but I think correct answer is provided by Jeffrey Kasser in this Teaching Company course on the Philosophy of Science. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 2:47 pm
Bryan Caplan, whose work I greatly admire, argues that public choice is too optimistic about the operation of democracy: Public choice economists are used to blaming what they call "rational ignorance. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 3:18 pm
Powerline makes some suggestions for our newn Iraq policy: To analyze this question, we need to identify the reasons we have remained in Iraq for the past few years. [read post]