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January 2015

January 21, 2015

The logic of childcare tax credits

I've been waiting for lunchtime to write this up:Should the government provide tax credits for...

January 21, 2015

The fight against immigration amnesty is lost

So says my "2016 Presidential Platform Survey" that came in the mail the other day,...

January 21, 2015

Parking a link: the Consumer Expenditure Survey

This is purely a parked link, that someone referenced on Ann Althouse's blog: the Consumer...

January 20, 2015

So I didn't actually watch the speech -- which is still going on as I...

January 20, 2015

Invitation to speculation

What is Obama up to?He's proposing a multitude of programs that have no chance of...

January 20, 2015

Today’s question: on “passing for white”

Yeah, once again, this is a question rather than some actual commentary or information. But...

January 19, 2015

Women and the Priesthood: in the news

Back in the fall, I wrote a longish post on women wanting to be priests....

January 19, 2015

The Oscars: Hypothetical question of the day

This falls in the category of, "curious about readers' opinions" -- or, really, curious about...

January 17, 2015

Islam needs a “Jewish Enlightenment”

I had written on this before, as part of another post, but I wanted to...

January 17, 2015

From the bookshelf: Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, by Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth

For the time being, this post is more of a placeholder, until I summarize the...

January 16, 2015

Parking a link: Korean adoptees returning “home”

Here's a story from the New York Times about Korean adoptees returning to Korea and...

January 16, 2015

More on Muhammad

Seemingly to justify their own policy, the AP has a story out (in the Trib...

January 16, 2015

“You’ve got a friend”?

Of course we've got to talk about the now-infamous "James Taylor sings 'You've Got a...

January 15, 2015

Drat that teleprompter!

So I finally got around to watching infamous video of Obama's remarks on the attack...

January 13, 2015

Quick comment and question on “the Prophet Mohammed”

So there's a complaint floating out there that it's inappropriate of the media and politicians...

January 12, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part Three

So yesterday I told you all about a couple things I'd read on the question...

January 12, 2015

I’m now blocked from commenting at nationalreview.com

Anyone have experience with this? Know how to appeal? In any case, it's a lousy...

January 11, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part Two

OK, "Part One" was just an invitation for comments. And I spent most of my...

January 11, 2015

Here’s a twist: I’ve been reported as spam

Idiots.So I've written a couple posts on "moderate Islam" over the last couple days, and,...

January 10, 2015

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Apparently, not so much

From my sole window to the world of the French people, an old high school...

January 10, 2015

A 20 minute post on Islam

Because then I have to pick my son up from German School.Here's the reality:Let's take...

January 10, 2015

Rethinking Retirement, Part One

So this weekend's project is to write about a book I've been reading and to...

January 09, 2015

Parking a link: “Most Iconic Restaurants”

This comes from Thrillist, via HuffPo, via facebook, a list of the most iconic restaurants...

January 08, 2015

“Free Community College”???

This, of course, is the headline for those of us looking for a diversion from...

January 08, 2015

What does (or would) “Moderate Islam” look like?

I'm writing this completely unsourced today, more to invite conversation than anything else. Ideally, later...

January 07, 2015

Could Egypt make refugee-intake into an industry? (with bonus Paris-attack commentary)

Look, I'm just spitballing here, as they say, and have utterly failed to keep up...

January 07, 2015

My kids are gleeful at a day off school

Me, not so much.Now, thankfully, we don't live in an area where they close schools...

January 06, 2015

Parking a link: What do you make of al-Sisi’s speech?

In which he reportedly said,The corpus of texts and ideas that we have made sacred...

January 06, 2015

Just in case you’ve forgotten what it means to live in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel and the University of Chicago are happy to remind you

In today's news: During two public forums next week, the Chicago Park District will propose...

January 06, 2015

More on “late adulthood”

(At work early finishing up a "due first thing in the morning" project = quick...

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