Monday, December 31, 2012

Three Rs


The results of the recent presidential election are perplexing to many and Kevin Williamson does a great service explaining the inexplicable in a lengthy column in NRO. Williamson is an economics expert and an astute observer of politics, and partisans, right or left, would benefit from reading his piece.
 
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/336481/risk-relativism-and-resources-kevin-d-williamson?pg=1

Williamson includes some links in his article, one of which is an insightful response of his to a leftist critique of supply-side economics (below).

http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/271205/extortion-left-and-make-work-fallacy#comment-bar

Saturday, December 29, 2012

A Conservative Prescription For Poverty


One that actually works and thus has no chance of full implementation.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_4_poverty.html

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Election Analyses


Presented without comment - Two views of the recent election results and its causes - One by Peggy Noonan and the other by Mark Steyn.
OK, one comment. Noonan is wrong. Steyn is right.

Noonan
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324481204578177800889633078.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond

Steyn
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/334413/who-are-we