Monday, October 23, 2006
Gun Control: Still Ineffective (09:13 PM) - For a long time, the best news for Second Amendment supporters in the United States has been the anti-gun lobbies of foreign nations, and the tremendous success those lobbies have enjoyed. Why? Because their labor, time after time in nation…
Obama Says He’ll Consider A 2008 Bid for The Presidency (12:25 PM) - He’s much too young, isn’t he?…
How the Conspiracy Goes (12:20 PM) - Scott Adams imagines what a military-industrial complex conversation sounds like….
A Good Discussion to Read (12:08 PM) - There is a new study out showing that, among immigrants, there may exist some kind of skin color discrimination in the labor market for domestic jobs. Economist Joni Hersch’s paper shows that immigrants with the lightest skin tone earn 8…
We Ban Vegemite (12:03 PM) - I have never had Vegemite. Vegemite sounds terrible. But if there’s one ally we should not irk, it is Australia, and besides: “How is it we can profile Aussies for Vegemite and not young Muslim men for box cutters?” How?…
Grammar Returns to Schools, with a Vengeance (11:56 AM) - The National Council of Teachers of English has reversed its stance, dug out in 1985, that grammar drills in secondary school are “a deterrent to the improvement of students’ speaking and writing.” The NCTE has some appreciable heft, if I…
The Quotable Secretary of Defense (11:43 AM) - It has been an occasional interest of Dartblog the unending wit of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense. Lauren Day points me to Neoperspectives.com—presumably a site about neoconservatism—which has an excellent compendium of Rumsfeld one-liners. My favorite: “We’re not…