Month: July 2015

Booman’s latest post is titled This is Interesting. In it he bemoans the undeniable failure of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. He writes: Honestly, the Fair Housing Act of 1968’s mandate to forcibly reduce segregation...

Honestly, the Fair Housing Act of 1968’s mandate to forcibly reduce segregation in housing feels like it came from an entirely different country. It never had a chance in the face of Nixon’s Southern Strategy, the...

By now enough time has passed since the Howard Dean boomlet that we can look back and see things a little more clearly. In many ways, Dean was a blank slate that people could adopt without really knowing or much caring about...

I would love to short coal and agree that it makes good financial sense to do so. The only problem is that I don’t know how best to do it. I have a basic knowledge of how to trade stocks and bonds, and how to short them,...

The recent move to suppress the open display of the American swastika, better known as the Confederate Flag, has gotten to former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. First he notes that the paper he writes for, the Washington Post,...