Weekly Digest – December 16, 2012
When I was young I’d accompany my parents on trips to museums in NYC. Newtown was the halfway point from our home in central MA. We’d always stop at the Blue Colony Diner for a break on the way down....
View ArticleWeekly Digest – December 23, 2012
Economics: Neil Irwin, There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play. (The title says it all. Read the full article for the details.) Brad DeLong, Department of “Oh Dear!”:...
View ArticleWeekly Digest – December 30, 2012
Politics Blues Cruise, Joe Hagan: GOP faithful take to the high seas to figure out what went wrong for their candidates last Nov. Tea Party, Its Clout Diminished, Turns to Narrower Issues, Trip...
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Weekly Digest – January 13, 2013
The Debt Ceiling Mint the platinum coin!: Coins Against Crazies, Paul Krugman. As a practical matter, minting a multi-trillion dollar platinum coin and depositing it in the Treasury’s general is...
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Weekly Digest – January 20, 2013
100th post!!! Economics Chye-Ching Huang, Budget Deal Makes Permanent 82 Percent of President Bush’s Tax Cuts: “The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and Congressional Budget Office estimate that...
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Reuters: A non-profit group plans to hand out free shotguns to residents of Tucson, Arizona in an effort to show that more guns mean less crime. The Houston, Texas-based Armed Citizens Project has...
View ArticleThought for the Day: 20 July 2013
“The legal lesson for Floridians [from the Zimmerman case]: in any altercation, however minor, the easiest way to avoid criminal liability is to kill the counterparty.” – Adam Weinstein
View ArticleThought for the Day: 30 December 2013
The Second Amendment reads: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It doesn’t say anything about...
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What’s wrong with this picture?
I’ll start with easy one: The police have automatic weapons. (Or are the just semi? Can’t tell. Doesn’t matter anyway.) In the civilized world riot police carry shields and truncheons. Sending...
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See the forest for the trees
From the New York Times: Islamic extremists, non-Islamic extremists, whatever. What gets my attention is the rapid growth since ca. 2008 in the overall number of deaths. ADDENDUM 12/15/2015: FYI,...
View ArticleThought for the Day: March 10, 2016
Attempts at supply-side gun control have been a near total failure. We need to work the demand side. We need for more people to feel comfortable deciding, “You know, I really don’t need a Glock for...
View ArticleThought for the Day – February 14, 2018
Charlie Pierce observes: The NRA argument [for gun privileges] boils down to a belief that massacres are part of the price of constitutional liberty. Yes, let’s call it what it is. Nothing has changed...
View ArticleThought for the Day – February 22, 2018
Close your eyes and picture a brown man saying this in Arabic. (Trust me, you’ll thank me). https://t.co/nlxoQeeDhA — Asma Khalid (@asmamk) February 22, 2018
View ArticleBan the Open Carry of Firearms
From John Feinblatt’s, Ban the Open Carry of Firearms: When militia members and white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Va., last Saturday with Nazi flags and racist placards, many of them...
View ArticleGuns into Garden Tools
My belief is that making it socially unacceptable to use weapons for entertainment will, in the long run, save many more lives than changing gun laws. (By “entertainment” I mean shooting for the hell...
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