Back in 2003 I wrote this post about how DNA can reveal people to have very different genetic backgrounds than what their ethnicity might otherwise tell them. Today the New York Times offers some more stories. Genia Stevens provides a short summary: A group of college students in Pennsylvania recently took a DNA test and [...]
In March, I posted a letter by a friend, Thom Powers, to Hillary Clinton. He suggested that the solution to concerns about sex and violence in the media isn’t more studies, or censorship, or even V-chips, but supporting quality programing on PBS. I mention this because I think this is exactly the kind of thinking [...]
Even though the new bankruptcy law will hit New Yorkers harder than the population as a whole, New York congressman Joseph Crowley was one of 73 Democrats who voted for the bill. He was even a co-sponsor! John Edwards, on the other hand, recently admitted that he was mistaken to have voted for a similar [...]
Graduate student teachers at Yale and Columbia universities are on strike to demand the right to form a union (recently denied to private schools by the NLRB): Graduate teachers at Bush’s alma mater, Yale, together with graduate teachers at Columbia University are fighting back against this ruling. Refusing to cede their internationally recognized human right [...]
Over one million U.S. soldiers have served in the wars following 9/11. In just three and half years that’s “one-third the number of troops ever stationed in or around Vietnam during 15 years of that conflict!” More surprising is the number of troops who have gone to war since 9/11, come back home, and then [...]
I’m sick and tired of all these attacks on Paris Hilton! She is not simply some rich heiress who can be used as a convenient excuse not to repeal the estate tax. She is a media personality! Moreover, the central argument: that repealing the estate tax will cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion per decade [...]
In discussing public policy, most pundits would have us believe that our only choices are: A. government regulation. Or, B. the free market. The lack of imagination evidenced by such discussions is depressing. Surely we can come up with some innovative ideas that don’t simply reproduce past mistakes? Indeed, we can. Dollars and Sense magazine [...]