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October 2013

October 02, 2013

“ADM details bid for tax breaks”

That's the headline in today's Tribune business section. Here's the link.This makes me sick. $24...

October 02, 2013

Today’s headlines. . .

So as my faithful reader(s) will know, I'm a reader of the Chicago Tribune --...

October 01, 2013

On Government Healthcare Spending — and Education

This is a great article on government healthcare spending by Avik Roy at the National...

October 01, 2013

Let’s Celebrate Banned Books Week! (or not . . .)

Actually, Banned Books Week seems to have run its course. This is the first year...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Challenge of the day: what’s good about ObamaCare?

Yes, I know that for my readers, this is generally a pretty major challenge --...

September 29, 2013

Just dig . . .

You know the old saying, "when you're in a hole, the first thing to do...

September 29, 2013

For fellow Illinoisians — the governor’s race?

This is a completely open, open-ended question -- are there any candidates for governor who...

September 28, 2013

Nickel and diming ObamaCare

Ever have an idea which, at least as you're thinking about it, seems so right...

September 28, 2013

Your turn, reader(s) — on O’care

I have a feeling today is going to be "put a movie in for the...

September 27, 2013

I’ll just say it: “ObamaCare will collapse” is wishful thinking

Here's a comment I posted on instapundit.com earlier this morning: It's foolish to imagine that...

September 27, 2013

So what’s the point?

Lovely way to start a Friday. I started looking at The Great Deformation yesterday, was...

September 27, 2013

Making the case against the case for Obamacare

Yes, usually, the phrasing would be simply "making the case against Obamacare." Why have I...

September 26, 2013

From the library: The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David A. Stockman

I'm sitting at the desk with this book in front of me, not sure if...

September 24, 2013

From the library: End of the Good Life, by Riva Froymovich

Reading the stinkers, so you don't have to! Or, that was an hour of my...

September 23, 2013

Social Security as a human right?

That's what Mexico is proposing, as reported in various news reports and here, on the...

September 23, 2013

Is Poland the latest casualty of the nationalization of private pension accounts?

It sure seemed that way. First Argentina helped itself to the money in workers' individual...

September 22, 2013

Election update: Grand Coalition?

According to the exit polls (as of 6 pm), Angela Merkel has handily won the...

September 22, 2013

Reporting in Der Spiegel

Here are some English-language links: Photo galleries, and some commentary on the upcoming coalition-formation, and...

September 22, 2013

Parking a link: Collective DC plans? (UPDATED)

I came across this report on collective DC plans (following the model of the Netherlands?),...

September 22, 2013

Why don’t we have a National Costume?

Here's a fun slideshow from Spiegel.de -- you don't have to read German to figure...

September 20, 2013

Still more on adjuncts — what I’d like to see

I have to say, the topic of adjunct professors and Margaret Mary Vojtko in particular...

September 19, 2013

From the library: With Charity for All: Why charities are failing and a better way to give, by Ken Stern

This is quite a downer: according to Stern, charities are failing, in multiple ways:Their programs...

September 19, 2013