If you watched the movie “Ocean’s 12”, you may recall a scene where George Clooney and Brad Pitt (well, their characters – but you always know you are watching George Clooney and Brad Pitt) can’t sleep and are watching “Happy Days” reruns – in Italian. At one point Clooney says “That guy doing Potsie is unbelievable” – referring...
read moreIt’s not really a surprise to anyone that the social sciences in American academia skew far out of the political mainstream, and so even less of a surprise that sociologists are blasting their polar opposites on the right, who call themselves part of the “Tea Party” movement. But the level of partisan spin in a pre-primary American Sociological Review paper is surprising even...
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” – Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ruling (2007) In 2007, Roberts issued those words, because a Seattle school district failed to show how its racial policies to achieve desegregation by mandating segregation...
read moreThe Obama administration is in something of a pickle. The EPA does not report to the public and so the Obama administration had directed them to implement strict new regulations on American energy companies. Why? America is actually doing quite well when it comes to emissions and energy has led the way. CO2 emissions from energy are back to early 1990s levels and coal, the dirtiest energy source,...
read moreBeware politicians who tell you that you need their help – what you want in a democracy is a system where no one blocks your upward mobility. But with a legislative culture that relies on creating people dependent on government, and regulations designed to insure that only the rich can start a business, California has put in motion a shocking decline in the middle class – as Joel...
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