Founding Bloggers interviewed the CNN Reporter that was arguing with tea party-goers from before, and it’s a very good look at the bias that’s present in any given broadcast. Found this via Patterico. The CNN part of the video’s obviously been discussed to death, so I won’t go into that. Perhaps the more interesting point [...]
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Just ran across this, and found it engrossing. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ About Death and Taxes “Death and Taxes:2009“ is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President’s budget request for [...]
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Jeremy Siegel on Bear Stearns, the Fed rate cuts, and inflation risks. Via Greg Mankiw.
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MySpace’s viewer wasn’t working for me anymore. You can also view the videos at the MTV site.
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This is a speech made in 1841 in England regarding copyright extension. Relevant in 1841. Relevant in 2002. Relevant today. At issue was whether to extend copyright to 60 years. Ultimately, they opted not to extend copyright. Now we have Disney-driven copyright laws and modern computer technology completely mired in handling copyright instead of innovating. [...]
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Copied from: http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/06-12-98.html An essay delivered by Alan Greenspan on September 5, 1961, and published in Caplitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand. The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice’s Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn’t, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, [...]
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Know much about correlation coefficients? Here’s a graph of Vote Share by Turnout for Canada’s general election in 2006: Here’s the same graph for Russian elections 2007: There are better, less blatant ways of rigging elections. It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of this news. If these data are accurate, it’s nothing [...]
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The CNN/Youtube debates have begun, and we’ll be liveblogging the event. They’ve just introduced all of the candidates and there’s this awkward photo opportunity going on. Anyway, on to the liveblogging. We’ll be in Freenode at #politicalinquirer. First question — If you become president of the united states, will you continue to aid and abet [...]
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I was put on to this webcomic, overcompensating, by a programmer buddy. I was expecting something funny, but instead the first post (at the time of my reading – heck if I could find a permalink to it) got my blood boiling with the following: All of this all might be true; I can’t be [...]
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http://volokh.com/posts/1149009726.shtml The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on punitive damages. The case in question is against Phillip Morris, where their punitive damages were influenced in their Oregon case by the masses of Oregonians EVIL PHILLIP MORRIS has injured that WEREN’T INVOLVED IN THE CASE. This is entirely unacceptable for a judge to [...]
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