Not sharing the late Isaac Asimov's basically Progressive-era statistical beliefs concerning human behavior in the aggregate--multiplying variables does not make them easier to sort out--I draw absolutely no conclusions whatever from yesterday's ev
Mention "free-market economics" to a member of the lay public and chances are that if he has heard the term at all, he identifies it completely with the name Milton Friedman.
Slate, a once-semi-readable website, published a 2,925-word tome on Tuesday by a guy who is really sad because he managed rack up $200,000 in student loan debt by getting a useless degree at a fancypants private college and then, by borrowing more ca
The Oregon tragi-comedy has left one dead, one injured, six arrested, some guys in Michigan trying to fix a water system with their guns, and millions of Americans deprived of intelligent television content for weeks.
Cruz shifts on Edward Snowden ... Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz ... said National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is a "traitor" who should be "tried for treason," shifting away from the praise he expressed for Snowden in 2013.
TN Note: The author states: "In the war against climate change, powerful technocrats will be far more consequential than energy-sector technologists… What Gates and others are advocating for is not so much a technological revolution as a technocr
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The media and various interest groups are framing the Oregon standoff as a simple matter of an armed militia challenging the government. This is unfortunate, as the real issue is that of federal government over-reach and
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and the death of the Soviet Union was confirmed two years later when Boris Yeltsin courageously stood down the red army tanks in front of Moscow's White House, a dark era in human history came to an end.
A heartless Conservative Government was elected, Labour was defeated in Scotland and the rise of ISIS has been remorseless ... Yet there are still some hopeful signs for the year ahead.
President Barack Obama has admitted that a "pretty sizeable percentage" of world leaders are "out of their minds".
The President made the admission to Jerry Seinfeld for an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.