Month: July 2012

. Same topic read BooMan’s fp story – Romney Sounds Medicated. WOW! I wonder what Romney really thinks to know about Afro-American culture or the Mexican-Americans who do the fruit picking and agricultural labor. Oops, he...

I do think that differences in cultural values can help explain differences in the relative wealth of nations, but it’s not something to be discussed casually. And, as a political topic, it’s radioactive. If...

Jennifer Rubin is a real piece of work. Let’s take a look at part of her Washington Post piece on Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. Without specifically criticizing President Obama in his speech in Jerusalem, Mitt...

Physicist Richard Muller doesn’t express moral outrage in his column in Saturday’s NY Times, but he does something that is, I think, at least as important:  he  demolishes the arguments of so-called...

(One in an occasional series of posts on removing cars from their privileged place in American society.) This past weekend marked the first anniversary of Boston’s “Hubway” biking system.  Hubway has...