Will it go the way of McCain-Feingold?
There’s still plenty to litigate, and Roberts, having been burned by the election, is unlikely to give it any more passes.
Category Archives: Business
Where The Debt Comes From
It’s the spending, stupid. And not the war spending.
As Glenn’s emailer notes, it started to skyrocket right after the Democrats took over Congress in 2007. Before that we were on track to a balanced budget. The fiscal crisis would have certainly caused a spike in the deficit with reduced revenues, but absent the insane economic policies of the first two years of the Obama administration, the economy would have bounced back just as sharply as it dropped, as it does in most other recessions.
Safe Is Not An Option
Clark Lindsey, who got an early draft (and the most recent one), has a review of the book. There are only five days, left, and we’re still short over a thousand dollars. And the more I can exceed the goal, the more I’ll be able to promote this.
[Update early evening]
I just realized that I’ve left out a crucial quote in the book, from an eighties teeshirt. Not sure where to put it, though, but I definitely have to include it.
“The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth. The Rest Of Us Will Go To The Stars.”
Might even be on the cover…
College Degrees ROIs
Here’s news you can use (if it isn’t already obvious) — the eight worst ones.
Elon’s Mars Colony
Ari Armstrong is favorably impressed:
The long-term benefits of an off-world colony to our lives would be enormous. Not only would such a colony open the solar system to commercialization, reaping unimaginable wealth from the development of vast resources and energy; it would also establish a new frontier with new possibilities for human liberty. Both in terms of industrial development and political innovation, a colony on Mars could be as important as were the British colonies in America. The future of human progress, and possibly even the future of true freedom, may depend on off-world colonization. In any event, human life certainly will be greatly enhanced by it.
I wish that more people understood this.
Burt Rutan And Climate Change
Why he doubts it, at least as far as it being anthropogenic. It would be nice if someone would transcribe this, and pull screenshots of the charts.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Dendrochronologists (including Keith Briffa) (hockey) stick it to the Mann.
When Work Is Punished
The tragedy of the welfare state.
But don’t accuse them of wanting to create a large dependency class, with accompanying votes.
Space Transports
What is the future of reusable launch vehicles?
It should be clear by now that it’s hopeless to expect the government to do it.
Centennial Challenges
It’s dead, Jim. Give it to FAA, and let Davidian run it again.
ObamaCare: Still Unpopular
…and still a mess:
It’s a situation no one anticipated when the Affordable Care Act was written. The law assumed states would create and operate their own exchanges, and set aside billions in grants for that purpose.
Why did the law assume that? Because, as Ramesh Ponnuru wrote back in October, “The law’s supporters . . . expected the health-care law to become more popular over time.” T’was ever thus, for blind optimism is Obamacare’s founding principle: If people understand it, they’ll like it; if Obama makes just one more speech about it, they’ll like it; if Congress passes it, they’ll like it; if HHS spends millions of dollars promoting it, they’ll like it; if the states are forced to implement it, they’ll like it. And so on and so forth. And yet…
This is why federalism was invented.