Monthly Archives: April 2007

Somehow I missed this amidst all the pork attached to the Iraq funding bill, but it seems the minimum wage hike was attached to it as well. From the Guardian.

La la la la la I can’t hear you! So, was the MacArthur Maze wired for demolition or was it hit by a missile?

From Taxprof Blog: The Tax Foundation has announced that today (the 120th day of 2007) is Tax Freedom Day® — Americans will work four months of the year, from January 1 to April 30, before they have earned enough money … Continue reading →

Read here: “One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking … Continue reading →

Todd Zywicki on the hiring scandals at DOJ. He is pretty spot on if you ask me.

Don Surber is excited. Instapundit wonders if it should be and the left side of the sphere says it isn’t about sex, it is the hypocrisy! Don nails that: Wrong. It’s the Sex. If we fired politicians for hypocrisy, there … Continue reading →

McQ looks at Attorney General Ray Coopers report on the case of the Duke lacrosse players and the various people who drove this story. The roll is taken and awards and brickbats are handed out.

D.A. Ridgely comments on this story: the Chicago Sun-Times reports that an eighteen year old honors student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Illinois has been arrested and charged with two counts of disorderly conduct as a result of his … Continue reading →

D.A. Ridgley on Hugh Grant’s latest and his career. Bonus Snipe: As if the prospect of Angelina Jolie (and possibly master thespian Brad Pitt, too!) starring in a film version of Atlas Shrugged wasn’t funny enough, CV recently discovered that … Continue reading →

At Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson points out that logically many “fallacious” forms of argument are not necessarily so. So is question begging inherently fallacious? It seems context matters. The comments are juicy. Much more here. Conclusion? Adding in heuristic biases, … Continue reading →

In an era of resurgent realism Joshua Foust contemplates the regularity of genocide and its lesser cousins, our international impotence against it and the ongoing Turkish recalcitrance over the Armenian genocide.

McQ questions whether the brickbats the military is receiving over the Jessica Lynch story is warranted. UPDATE: Rich Lowry chimes in as well (“The Story of Jessica Lynch: What really happened in Nasiriyah“) with recounting of what really happened to … Continue reading →

Islamic advice on marital relations, though I am taking this bit of advice to heart as well: For the moment her main advice for married couples: Have more sex. “You have nowhere else to get your sexuality but from your … Continue reading →

You might get something different depending on where you ask for it… A statistical look at the terms used for soft drinks. (H/T TCS Daily)

Said CNN’s Baghdad correspondent… I don’t expect the left-blogshpere will appreciate his views as much as they did before.

There be pirates there, ye matty… No, really, honest to god Pirates.

Gen. Petraeus answers media questions after closed Senate briefing… and from a Charlie Rose show from 2004

For the first time we may have found a planet outside our solar system capable of supporting life (at least as we understand life.)

Slab, writing at OPFOR, has some interesting factual tidbits that undermine some popular myths about the Vietnam War. A taste: This was posted on a military-related message board that I visit from time to time. Some very interesting facts in … Continue reading →

Robin Hanson says they are a bad deal, and because Robin Hanson is generally right (a bias I have not overcome) we should avoid them. Sometimes that is not wise. So if you have to, heed this advice: Big hospitals … Continue reading →

Brad Warbiany notes the housing slump is still on, and seems to be gathering steam. I can’t say much for legal compliance reasons other than I agree. This is also not the only bubble. They are everywhere. If you can … Continue reading →