Wednesday, January 31, 2018

"An Impassable Wall" Trump? No, Lincoln

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 Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between  t...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Reducing Layers of Management Redux

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Government executive has a piece by Howard Risher on the need to reduce layers of management in government: " February 12 promises t...
Monday, January 29, 2018

I'm Not Sane--per K. Williamson

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Kevin Williamson has a column on institutions and the FBI, writing: " And no sane person believes for a nanosecond that those “lost”...

The IMprint of History on EU Farms

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Politico has a piece on the EU and farm  policy: With Brexit sapping the EU’s financial firepower, European Commissioner for Agriculture P...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

How To Do an Immigration Deal

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Ross Douthat in the NYTimes has a column arguing, if I've got it right, that any deal on immigration must have Stephen Miller at the ta...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Nuclear Alert System

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Blogged about the problem of the false alert in Hawaii the other day.  Kottke has a post  showing the actual screen the operator was faced w...
Friday, January 26, 2018

What's the Meaning of Trade Hypocrisy

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From a Post piece by Roger Lowenstein reviewing trade policy: Trump is scarcely the first president to resort to tariffs. Presidents Georg...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Molly Bloom

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I seem to be falling into a pattern of short movie reviews, given my wife and I are regularly seeing movies since the holidays.  Today was ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Times Changes: Veterans and Non-veterans

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I was alerted to this by a blog I've lost track of, so I searched and found this. It graphs the proportion of the male population who...

You're Not Who You Were a Second Ago

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Been reading Jennifer Doudna's Crack in Creation .  She's one of the scientists involved in the creation and development of CRISPR,...