In this case, “justice,” which doesn’t really mean what the left thinks it does. An interesting experiment is about to be conducted in London. A public-housing authority has constructed exact replicas of elegant early-Victorian townhouses on one side of Union Square in Islington, of the kind much coveted by bankers and lawyers in the nearby […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Professor Bainbridge takes a game theory approach, wherein the Republicans must persuade the Democrats that they really are crazy enough not to raise the debt ceiling, barring serious spending cuts. \u00a0Last time, given the election schedule, I thought the deal was defensible. \u00a0But Bainbridge’s reasoning now is sound: So there are the GOP’s choices: Give […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Here, or in Israel: \u00a0A poll\u00a0publicized in Haaretz last week\u00a0found that more than half the Israelis who vote for left-leaning parties (54.4%, to be pedantic) \u201cwould leave the country if they could.\u201d That\u2019s twice the rate of right-wing voters. According to the survey, it is the economy, rather than politics, that accounts most for the […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

According to JINSA official Marsha Halteman: \u201cHe said to me, \u2018Let the Jews pay for it\u2019,\u201d said Marsha Halteman, director for military and law enforcement programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), which led the battle to keep USO Haifa operational. Hagel\u2019s campaign to close the storied USO port struck many observers, […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via the Eeyores over at Zero Hedge, this cheery thought about the $1 Trillion coin: It was already a bad idea. \u00a0Now, it’s just stupid.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Roger Scruton asks how we ended up with so much fake culture: Hence for a long time now, it has been assumed that there can be no authentic creation in high art which is not in some way a \u2018challenge\u2019 to public culture. Art must give offence, stepping out armed against the bourgeois taste for […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via Mark Perry: Prices are still largely a function of world markets, but the idea that Keystone XL, for instance, won’t help this is just silly. \u00a0And the Left keeps touting boutique energies like solar and wind as means to “energy independence.” \u00a0Can we please stop the ethanol mandate now? Note also that this peaked […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

This strikes me as a terrible idea, since there are already plenty of laws on the books that make gun owners liable for the misuse of their weapons, either by themselves or other, but they’re asking economists, so Russ Roberts provides the coup de grace: But the logic is not quite as neat as it […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Khaled Abu Toameh highlights the seamier side of the world’s favorite underdogs: – Out of the 600 Christians from the Gaza Strip who arrived in the West Bank in the past two weeks to celebrate Christmas, dozens have asked to move to Israel because they no longer feel comfortable living under the Palestinian Authority and […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

A find to rival the Cairo Genizah, maybe the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Afghan collection gives an unprecedented look into the lives of Jews in ancient Persia in the 11th century. The paper manuscripts, preserved over the centuries by the dry, shady conditions of the caves, include writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judea-Arabic and the unique […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Ted Cruz invokes lefty favorite John Rawls (albeit somewhat inaccurately) in setting up new messaging for the GOP. \u00a0But he hits the right notes: Opportunity conservatism is a powerful frame to explain conservative policies that work. It covers the gamut of issues. Republicans shouldn\u2019t just assail excessive financial and environmental regulations; we should explain how […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via\u00a0James Pethokoukis\u00a0at AEI, a new study strongly suggests that the so-called fiscal multiplier for “stimulus” spending is less than 1, even in periods of high unemployment, meaning that even in a those situations where stimulus spending is supposed to do the most good, it still destroys vast quantities of wealth: We have investigated the proposition […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

As states become wealthier, ideology of the state government becomes more important in determining the size of that government: This paper theorizes that the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments increases with state income. This idea is tested using state-level ideology data derived from the voting behavior of state congressional representatives. […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

Via Powerline, Watts Up With That reports on a new study that claims to show that warming and CO2 emissions are perhaps correlated, but not causal: We use statistical methods for nonstationary time series to test the anthropogenic interpretation of global warming (AGW), according to which an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations raised global […]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

The Browns wouldn’t arrive until 7 years later: Follow the link, see the whole map.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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