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2011-08-10T14:35:05-04:00

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Authority crisis

Last updated on: August 10, 2011 at 2:35 pm By Gene Veith

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Rioters as young as nine are looting shops and burning buildings in cities across Great Britain. Pundits, of course, are trying to answer the question, “Why?” The left is predictably blaming social conditions–government cutbacks in particular–and the right is predictably putting responsibility on the individual “hooligans.” I haven’t seen any interviews of the actual perpetrators (fill me in if you have), but I suspect there is not all that much “rage”–pictures I’ve seen are of the young folks laughing as... Read more

2011-08-10T14:34:23-04:00

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Wisconsin recalls in favor of GOP

Last updated on: August 10, 2011 at 2:34 pm By Gene Veith

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It looks like the unions lost and Republicans won in Wisconsin, as recall elections sparked by Gov. Scott Walker’s stand against collective bargaining for state employee unions retained the GOP majority in the state legislature: Republicans held onto control of the Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday, beating back four Democratic challengers in a recall election despite an intense political backlash against GOP support for Gov. Scott Walker’s effort to curb public employees’ union rights. Fueled by millions of dollars from national... Read more

2011-08-09T06:05:35-04:00

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Hard life

Last updated on: August 9, 2011 at 6:05 am By Gene Veith

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One of the things that has struck me, as we cruise by in luxury, is just hard life is out here for the people who live in the small towns and remote areas of Alaska. Skagway is mainly a cruise ship town in the summer, with an influx of businesses that descend on the place for a few months to sell jewelry and cheap souvenirs to us tourists, but some 800 people live there year-round. Our tour guide was telling... Read more

2011-08-09T06:00:44-04:00

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Barackalypse Now

Last updated on: August 9, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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As the stock market dives 634 more points over the United States government getting downgraded by Standard & Poors, President Obama is looking more vulnerable than ever. Even some of his African American supporters—who are suffering most from unemployment—are getting disillusioned with him. In addition to our economic woes are our foreign policy failures, including setbacks in the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Libya. People are speaking of Barackalypse or Obamageddon. I thought he was a shoo-in for re-election, but... Read more

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2011-08-08T05:55:30-04:00

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America’s credit score

Last updated on: August 8, 2011 at 5:55 am By Gene Veith

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Standard & Poor’s downrated US bonds from AAA to AA+, the first time we have been rated so low. That is a purely financial assessment. But factors include our impotent government, our inability to raise revenue, and our vast and increasing national debt. How humiliating. Just how doomed are we? How can we become a first world nation again? Read more

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2011-08-05T13:24:40-04:00

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At sea

Last updated on: August 5, 2011 at 1:24 pm By Gene Veith

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On the cruise just entering Glacier Bay. We just saw some whales. What luxury this ship offers. I’m sure my ancestors never got above the orlop deck with the bilge water and the ballast. But this is a dream. Internet connection is very slow and–as one of you commenters helpfully and correctly informed us–VERY EXPENSIVE (75 cents a minute!). Plus, the carefree existence here keeps us insulated from all the bad news of the outside world. So I don’t have... Read more

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2011-08-05T13:18:14-04:00

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Another economic collapse?

Last updated on: August 5, 2011 at 1:18 pm By Gene Veith

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The stock market has nosedived 500 points and the economic indicators appear to be disastrous. This, right after the debt ceiling agreement that supposedly allows the government to stay solvent by borrowing money while also cutting more than $2 trillion in government spending. Could it be that Keynesian economics is right, that the government keeps the economy going through its spending and that cutting expenditures during a recession is exactly the wrong way to produce economic growth? Or are the... Read more

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2011-08-05T13:15:13-04:00

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Marketing & consumer tastes

Last updated on: August 5, 2011 at 1:15 pm By Gene Veith

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Economics columnist Steven Pearlstein goes off on how super-thick clam chowder has replaced the thinner, more authentic version that is much tastier. In doing so, he makes some point about how markets actually work: not so much by fulfilling a consumer preference but by getting consumers to change their preferences. As when research showed that Americans like weak coffee, whereupon Starbucks–going in the opposite direction–taught Americans to like strong coffee. My search for a decent bowl of clam chowder got... Read more

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2011-08-04T06:00:09-04:00

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The inevitability of libertarianism

Last updated on: August 4, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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George Will reviews The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. They argue that, what with our new technology and all, libertarianism will inevitably become the dominant political and economic ideology: “Confirmation bias” is the propensity to believe news that confirms our beliefs. Gillespie and Welch say that “existence bias” disposes us to believe that things that exist always will. The authors say that the most ossified, sclerotic sectors... Read more

2011-08-04T05:30:15-04:00

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Schism in Lutheran charities

Last updated on: August 4, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The Associated Press has a good and remarkably objective story on how the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) is stopping its co-operation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in military chaplaincy and charity work. From journalist Rachel Zoll: The latest casualty of the long-running Protestant conflicts over the Bible and homosexuality is a massive network of social service agencies that work in areas ranging from adoption to disaster relief. The theologically conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod announced this week... Read more

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