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Headline/Content Mismatch?

Someone on Facebook linked to this article with the headline, “Argentina bans inflation from official jargon.” But if you click on it, you notice two things: (1) It is horribly written. Presumably it is a translation? (2) After a second reading, I still don’t see anything in the article that directly supports the headline. There […]

Mike Huckabee: Without Government Welfare, Churches Would Let Babies Starve to Death

OK I’m reading into it but here’s what he said on Michael Medved’s show, concerning Natalie Portman (HT2 somebody on Facebook): You know Michael, one of the things that’s troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, ‘Hey look, you know, we’re having children, we’re not married, […]

Econometrics Bask

This is a geek question: I am working with a data set where we are trying to determine if more occurrences of something leads to a higher probability that another condition will occur. This calls for a logit model and that’s what we’re doing. These aren’t the numbers but they’re close: Occurrences for a person […]

Why I Claim That Caplan Said “Parents Don’t Matter”

I just want to make a quick point to defend my honor. Whenever I say, “Bryan says ‘parents don’t matter,’ but I think he’s wrong because of XYZ…” I get people saying I’m misrepresenting his position. Don’t get me wrong–I concede that in a formal debate, or if pressed for clarification on his blog, Bryan […]

Challenge to Einstein: I Love It

I love this kind of stuff. Last week (or maybe even the week before) LRC ran this article by Tom Bethell, explaining one scientist’s campaign to upend not quantum mechanics, but relativity theory. Bethell is not an idiot, I can say that with confidence. His Politically Incorrect Guide to Science did what the series is […]

Fed Guy Backs Off “Pinhead” Comment About Ron Paul

[UPDATE below.] Based on a reader tip (which I read on my Blackberry waiting for the beginning of the “Success Assembly” at my son’s school) I had intended to write a critique of the Fed guy who called Ron Paul a “pinhead,” but before I could Bob Wenzel had already hit the major points. So […]

On Those Twin/Adoption Studies…

The lynchpin in Caplan’s case that “parents don’t matter” is the evidence from twin/adoption studies. I confess I haven’t delved into them yet, but my arms’ length understanding is that if you look at identical twins who are raised by different families, and then again if you look at children who are totally unrelated genetically […]

Napolitano Not a Fan of Lincoln

Wouldn’t it be neat if, say, you had Andrew Napolitano talking about Abraham Lincoln? Oh, and the person asking him about it was, say, Ralph Nader? (This sounds like a really high-brow Frank Caliendo sketch by this point.) But actually, it happened (HT2 LRC):