“Where are you supposed to get these expectations? If you just make them up, then you can get any result you want.” =============== By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. Let’s face it, the “Chicago School” of economics—the one with all the Nobel Prizes, the one associated with Milton Friedman, the one known for its trust of markets and skepticism about government—has taken a drubbing... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Chicago Economics on Trial: Robert E Lucas, Jr.
September 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Tax Issues…a Ponzi Scheme…
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, The LeftI named my blog after this article… or could have. ===== Dilbert creator Scott Adams writing at dilbert.com, Aug. 30: Is it my imagination, or has the liberal wing of the media’s attacks on conservatives turned into a bunch of cheap gotchas involving nitpicked analogies and quotes taken out of context? Perhaps it has always been this way and I never noticed until... Read more
Its The Integrity, Stupid
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionMcIntosh – taking it back! ======== An old acquaintance of mine, a passionate progressive, gave away the game in a recent conversation when he said, contemptuously, “Your people (by which he meant the Tea Party) are idiots for fetishizing the Constitution. Everybody knows that it’s just an artifact.” A stunning proposition and stated with such refreshing candor. Does the Constitution still matter?... Read more
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
September 20 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtVery cool. Funny how the human brain evolved this way… ============== Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle .
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Focusing On Focus
September 19 | Posted by mrossol | American ThoughtVery interesting… =========== For most of human history, the progress of knowledge was constrained by a shortage of information. Books were expensive and rare, libraries were reserved for elite scholars and communication was extremely slow. Mail moved at the speed of horses. Now, of course, we live in the age of Google and Amazon Prime, a time when nearly everything ever written can... Read more
