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Billion … with a B

February 28, 2006

Tonight’s local news (Detroit) showed some footage of Northwest Airline pilots, picketing at the airport today, for what they believe are unreasonable concessions demanded by the company. Unfortunately for Northwest’s pilots, as the market becomes more competitive, demand for any particular airline becomes more elastic - and consequently, the power of the unions is […]

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Can I call “Bullshit?”

February 28, 2006

The New York Times is reporting that yes, in fact people do favor a gas tax…
but with several glaring caveats…
“If it reduces global warming…”
“If it reduces our dependency on foreign oil…”
“If it is equitably applied…”
can I call “bullshit?”
Will someone please get to the bottom of this? Because I really don’t believe that anyone, anywhere, […]

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Can I say: “I told you so” ?

February 28, 2006

Just as Michigan is contemplating state provided health care/retirement benefits, Canada, that bastion of Socialism and free-health care for all is realizing the glaring inequities in its supposedly egalitarian system. Now, I’m certainly not the first, and I won’t be the last to accuse Canada’s health-care system of being awful. But it’s nice […]

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Two can play at that game

February 28, 2006

The game, of course, being lobbing volley after volley of calculated insults at those whose lifestyles differ from your own.
Leonard Pitts thinks Fred Phelps is gay. For those of you not in-the-know, Phelps is a completely bigoted, homophobic “minsiter” at some wack-o church in Kansas, he preaches and rallies against homosexuality - even […]

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An example of government provision and positive harm

February 27, 2006

What if - every time you bought a bottle of Coca-Cola at the store, you were required also to purchase a bottle of Pepsi-Cola, even though you didn’t like it, and you would just throw it out or give it to someone else? At what price of Coca-Cola (and Pepsi) would you decide you […]

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On Morality in India, c. 2006

February 27, 2006

In The Bigger Morality, Yazad Jal, of Mumbai, India presents a great social commentary on the state of Morality in Indian affairs - specifically the backwards focus on sexual morality as it concerns the day-to-day life of present-day Indians. Jal believes (rightly so, I think) that the far greater measure is the economic morality, […]

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Wal-Mart & The Nanny-State

February 27, 2006

There are plenty of justifiable reasons to dislike Wal-Mart. The fact that they don’t give health-care to everyone they employ is not one of them. Afterall, each time a new store opens, they’re greeted with thousands of applicants competing for the hundred-odd positions. But something is terribly wrong when even the beneficiaries […]

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