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Counterbalancing terrible claws
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Some Bad Math
Mark Chu-Carroll runs a blog called Good Math, Bad Math and generally he exposes instances of bad math. However, in regards to use statistics Mark gives example of some bad math in two posts. It all started with a post about the Duke rape case and how on another blog a commenter was using some crime data that was dubious...
Give Back that PhD!
Charles Wheelan (PhD and all), has written article debunking one of the most outlandish ideas in economics. No, he hasn't gone after somebody like Karl Marx and the labor theory of value. No, he hasn't gone after the idea of anarcho-communism. Instead he has decided to go after the Laffer curve. Boy what a laffer...I hate that joke. What I...
The Gasoline Situation
Cross posted from Outside the Beltway. Again, most of this comes from the Oil Drum. First is the picture of where the price of gasoline comes from, Source: EIA As can be seen the biggest component to gasoline prices is the price of oil. One thing that I'd like to know is, for every $1 increase in the price of...
Price Gougers One and All
Michelle Malkin's Sloppy Logic and Xenophobia
Cross posted from Outside the Beltway. Michelle Malkin seems to be all a twitter over the notion of Reconquista, that is that the U.S. or at least a big chunk of it (i.e., the Southwest) will be re-absorbed by Mexico. Apparently this Grand Master Plan is going to be executed by having illegals sneak into this country, then they will...
Oil Prices and Supply
James Hamilton has a contrarian view on the reason why oil prices are so high. There are two factors contributing to the problem. The first is that about 340,000 barrels/day are still shut in as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Further, it there is no plan to bring that production back on-line. "By and large those production platforms...
The MTBE Component (and others) to the Gasoline Issue
Lynne Kiesling (your go to gal for everything dealing with energy) points to an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that points to one reason why gasoline prices are high. There's been unconscionable behavior all right, most of it on Capitol Hill. A decent portion of the latest run-up in gas prices -- and the entire cause of...
Ann Coulter: Creationist Moron
Via the Commissar comes this annoying bit of news. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion itself. In Godless, Ann Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us: Its sacraments (abortion) Its holy writ (Roe v. Wade) Its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger...
Why Stop At Junk Food and Cigarettes
Also from Radley Balko comes this story about how smoking bans in English pubs is expect to lead to a rise in female binge drinking. Smoke-free bars and public houses will attract more female customers and could fuel the rise in binge drinking among women, a report warns. It points out that as bars and pubs become more appealing venues...
So Much for the Autism Epidemic
Orac at Respectful of Insolence points to some new research that strongly suggests that the Autism "epidemic" either doesn't exist or is much smaller than many have claimed. The big problem is something called "diagnostic substitution." In special education programs, "autism" was not a required category until created by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Suddenly, "autism" diagnoses for...
Little Miss Atilla On Immigration
With a name like that you might think her solution is to just unleash her Mongol hordes, but in actuallity she has two posts on the topic that I think have some very good points. In the first post Atilla Girl lists three points, ...1) secure the border; 2) streamline the legal immigration system for those who truly want to...
Trusting the Mind
Over at the Evangelical Outpost there is an old post of Joe Carter's that has been annoying me, but I've never really had the time to respond...until now. The gist of the post is based on Alvin Plantinga's supposed defeat of methodological naturalism. The argument is a probabilistic one and can be summarized thusly, Prob(E & N | R) =...
Help Out if You Can
Andy over at the World Wide Rant has lost a good friend to cancer. If you can either link to the post, donate some money, or best of all both....
Another Reason to Wonder if Michelle Malkin Is All That Smart
The guest blogger Allahpundit is guest blogging form Michelle and points out that Friday was the anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death. Allahpundit says, Michelle's Schiavo archive runs to eleven pages on Google, but for me it's this short post that resonates the most. The link to another post by Michelle points to this article by economist Steven Landsburg. In that...
My Views on Immigration
In many of the posts below you'll note that I don't stake clearly my position on immigration. Basically, I am not an open borders kind of guy. I feel that there is a sufficient national security issue to necessitate a pretty sweeping change in how the U.S. handles its borders. However, I also realize two things: The economic arguments of...
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