Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Boston in Decline (10:15 AM) - Paul Geary: “The fact is, throughout human history, there has been out-migration from places with fewer opportunities and less freedom, and in-migration to places with more opportunity and more freedom.” Paul ably contrasts Boston with Las Vegas, a city of…
“Translated from the original bullshit.” (09:06 AM) - Jules Crittenden looks at Kofi Annan’s au revoir speech. One especially lovely section was where Kofi says, “It is not realistic to think that some people can go on deriving great benefits from globalization while billions of others are left…
Say What You Mean. (08:50 AM) - Do you want to know a secret about the Power Line Forum? I created the whole damn thing because I was hoping we’d have grammar and vocabulary debates….
The Long Bipartisan Tradition of ‘War for Oil’ (08:25 AM) - If you ever doubt the effectiveness of political rhetoric, just look at the Democrats’ years-long drubbing of the Iraq War. The party was able to reframe the war debate, setting a new standard wherein any war purposed for anything but…