Thursday, March 31, 2011

Our Weak Federal Government--States Control Fed Employees

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In any rationally constructed bureaucracy, the leadership of the organization can control the hiring and firing of the people who do the org...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Food Movement's Dilemma

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 I think it's fair to say the food movement is mostly left, sometimes libertarian, but still mostly left.  As such I'd expect them t...

Members of Congress Receiving Farm Payments

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EWG has released their list of current members of Congress who are directly or indirectly receiving farm program payments. The majority own ...

Past Sins Recalled

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Katrina Vanden Heuvel i n the Post on having standards for pundits: Fox News trumped even that, trotting out retired Marine Col. Oliver N...

Predicting the Future, Achenbach Is Prescient

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See his last paragraph quoted here.

Nitpicky Morning

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First Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution writes "cache" when he means "cachet" and then Jonathan Adler at Volokh Conspi...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How Do Economists CAPTCHA This Data?

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Guy Gugliotta has an article in the Times on the use of Captchas to interpret scanned text through a special software program.  Apparently...

My Loss of Faith in Japan

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The Japanese are great engineers, right?  And their society is unified.  And in the face of disaster they cooperate, they don't loot, th...

Best Sentence of Mar 29

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Comes from Tom Rick's The Best Defense, a pilot explaining the deficiencies of the F-22 for ground support. "The Raptor also lack...
Monday, March 28, 2011

The Farmland Bubble

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Yes, 4 percent appreciation a month equates to "bubble". From Farm Policy: Meanwhile, Elizabeth Williams and Marcia Zarley Tayl...