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February 2014

February 28, 2014

“Bubba Bobby Jindal waves the War Flag”

That's the headline for Kathleen Parker's opinion piece today (in the Trib, but syndicated from...

February 28, 2014

“My Brother’s Keeper?”

In the paper today:  "Obama announces initiative for young black and Latino men": Obama announced...

February 27, 2014

From the library: Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, by Peter Schweizer

OK, so I'm going to write this summary by memory as I've now misplaced the...

February 26, 2014

What happened to CNN.com?

Seriously. I used to check them fairly often, as a generic news site, though I'd...

February 21, 2014

Tax Time . . .

[Don't worry, I'll keep working on the "USA Retirement Fund" bill summary and commentary later!]I...

February 20, 2014

Why are the unions opposing Bruce Rauner?

So for those who are keeping score -- well, the Illinois Republican Party is still...

February 19, 2014

“This is a short term pain that in the long term will help reinvest the money in education, where it should go”

That's the quote that the Chicago Tribune offers in its story today on the two-day...

February 18, 2014

Remedial Education

So I'm not going to be able to fix the problem of high college costs....

February 17, 2014

From the library: The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, by Nicholas Lemann

(Tuesday morning update:  revised since originally posted with additional material.)Conventional wisdom offers two explanations for...

February 17, 2014

More on servants

So I've been reading about "The Great Black Migration" (The Promised Land: The Great Black...

February 15, 2014

Table of the Day

More fun with the BLS.gov data -- in this case, looking at the pay changes...

February 15, 2014

Immigration and the “servant class”

Have you ever been an expat in East Asia?Well, neither have I, actually.  But before...

February 13, 2014

On Wage growth — three graphs

Here, for your Thursday morning contemplation, are three graphs from the bls.gov site. The first...

February 12, 2014

Immigration “reform” and the problem of trust

Can Barack Obama, or his successor, be trusted to fully implement and successfully enforce border...

February 11, 2014

This is why I blog: “Tribune/WGN-TV poll: Rauner jumps out to lead”

By "why I blog" I mean, of course, "why I spend my time writing about...

February 10, 2014

On Ice Dams and the Poor

Somewhat off-topic releative to anything anyone's been talking about lately, but: I just wrote a...

February 10, 2014

The future of the German apprenticeship system?

Via marginalrevolution.com, an article in the Financial Times on the future of the German apprenticeship...

February 08, 2014

Piecing together the minimum wage, Obamacare, and illiegal immigration

Three disparate topics:  the minimum wage, Obamacare, and illegal immigration.  But they're fundamentally all connected...

February 08, 2014

On ObamaCare and “takers”

So the whole fallout from the CBO report (that is, the CBO report predicting people...

February 06, 2014

Anyone have experience using a pizza peel?

I looked at Amazon yesterday and the reviews were mixed: is a wooden or aluminum...

February 06, 2014

For avoidance of doubt, this is what I think about the CBO report

So I wrote about the CBO report last night, and, in the end, was pretty...

February 06, 2014

On Marriage and the Priesthood

Part of the purpose of this blog is to be able to comment on articles

February 05, 2014

Reading the CBO Report

So I've been waiting all day to have the kids tucked in (OK, just the...

February 04, 2014

“Just another lifestyle choice”

I suppose I'm showing my age if I quote Dan Quayle (hey, look it up...

February 04, 2014

Go Red for Women

This is again a sort of placeholder for something I want to write about later:...

February 03, 2014

On Immigration-bill Terminology

Just a few thoughts for Monday morning: We need to adjust the terminology around immigration....

February 02, 2014

More on immigration – and globalization

Three more thoughts on immigration, all connected to the issues of labor force.  (I haven't...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

More thinking on immigration

New laptop + Windows 8 = I have very little understanding of how to use...

January 31, 2014

So what *should* the Republicans do on immigration?

Actually, this post is more of a placeholder than anything, a way to push myself...

January 30, 2014

The “Immigration Principles”

I just don't know what to make of this.The Republicans have released their "immigration principles"...

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