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Life and politics

What can one learn in Springfield?

This is my question for Thomas F. Roeser, in response to his critique of the political inexperience of Adam...

Jun 3, 2009

More brains, less Halliburton: why Dick Cheney is wrong

In his first interview after leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Obama’s policies “raise the risk”...

Mar 20, 2009

Leave radical Islam alone

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria questioned our mostly military response to radical Islam. Readers, both at the Huffington...

Mar 17, 2009

The simplest plan for helping homeowners

Some banks gave mortgage loans to people who cannot keep a house under any conditions. These so-called toxic assets...

Feb 15, 2009

Obama’s first fault as President

It is in asking for delaying the digital TV transition. Some people still did not get the message about...

Jan 27, 2009

The lure of Keynesianism

In his recent column, Prof. Robert Reich is saying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are...

Jan 15, 2009

The immigration debate is not about immigration

The immigration debate is not about immigration but about how deeply the government should put its fingers into micromanaging...

Dec 9, 2008

Do Americans want change?

Yes, if change means that their personal well being would improve. No, if they would need change what they...

Nov 18, 2008

Change of change

Most of the problems that Barack Obama will face are big problems because most Americans are wrong in their...

Nov 9, 2008

It’s time for financial dinosaurs to die

If governments had been around 65 millions years ago, they would have used taxpayer’s money to save the dinosaurs...

Sep 20, 2008
Remark of the day

Is Musk losing it?

August 20, 2024
Life and politics

Elon Musk claims that he is ready to serve as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration. He forgot what he did when he had to improve Twitter's performance after purchasing it. He fired about 80% of employees, and Twitter did not collapse. After taking office as president of Argentina in December of 2023, Javier Milei did not create the Department of Government Efficiency either. He did the opposite; he dissolved 11 ministries and fired 15,000 government employees. As of June 2024, 55% of Argentinians are OK with that. One does not improve efficiency by creating a new bureaucracy but by eliminating the existing one. Musk knew that at Twitter but forgot it when veering into politics.

$44 billion for loud lamenting

July 26, 2024
Life and politics, Media

Elon Musk warned us that “America is headed for bankruptcy.” The national debt, which is $34 trillion and gro...

Do we need the judiciary branch of the government?

July 10, 2024
Life and politics

That question comes to mind when reading critics of the recent Supreme Court decision weakening so-called Chevron deference. In t...

Between a circus and a nursing home

June 29, 2024
Life and politics, Media

I heard on BBC that assessment of the recent debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. People are still commenting. For exampl...

Dr. Phil’s sore knees

June 08, 2024
Media

Dr. Phil McGraw is a clinical psychologist who has gained fame thanks to his charming way of asking people seemingly simple questions that are not s...