Steve Sailer has suggested that Dubya really, really, wanted to win the presidency, but he didn't really care about actually being President.

Posted at August 6, 2008 3:04 AM in response to Of Writers and Leaders

Why didn't George W. Bush do better as a leader? Why didn't he win the election of 2002

Maybe because there was no Presidential election in 2002?

Posted at August 5, 2008 7:16 PM in response to Of Writers and Leaders

Personal courage didn't win it. Nothing did.

Actual, something did win the war. I believe it was called North Vietnam.

Posted at July 25, 2008 7:41 PM in response to McCain: The Foam on the Surge

The only problem with all this talk about stagnating wages is that it ignores one major factor as to why wages are stagnating: we are importing millions of poor people, largely from Latin America. Bringing in more low-wage workers means that the average wage will be lower.

Posted at July 15, 2008 1:14 AM in response to Grand New Party and Political Narrative

Why should we permit 'private' security services to walk among us armed?

More to the point, why should we let the government have guns?

Posted at June 30, 2008 7:38 PM in response to The Case For Domestic Disarmament

John McCain is upset that a black man has decided not to go on welfare.

Go to Hell, McCain.

Posted at June 19, 2008 11:52 PM in response to By Any Means Necessary: Obama Opts Out

China has historically, and maybe even to this day, been a land of samll farmers spread throughout there domain but they seem to suffer terrible famines from time to time. It must be because they don't have a diversity of crops so if the rice crop fails, they starve.

It is also because traditionally Chinese girls married young and the Chinese had large families, bringing their population up to the carrying capacity during good times, so that when bad times came around, everyone starved.

England avoided this problem to some extent by the strong social pressure against having children until you could afford a middle class lifestyle (enforced by the combination of a strong stigma against illegitimacy and a tradition of not marrying until one could afford to). This prevented such large swings in population.

Posted at June 17, 2008 9:35 PM in response to Malthus Redux?

so what ever happened to zero population growth? Few if any articles are written on ZPG and no government I’m aware of, except the Peoples Republic of China has instituted a ZPG program.

Most of the developed world already has sub-replacement birth rates, so ZPG is their de facto policy.

The US would have near ZPG if it weren't for immigration, so we're already pretty well covered there.

It's the developing world where ZPG is an issue.

Posted at June 17, 2008 9:31 PM in response to Malthus Redux?

mageduley:

You do realize that Peter is being sacastic here, don't you?

Posted at June 15, 2008 12:12 PM in response to Disenfranchisement - an Allegory

I think the difference is the connotation:

Obama's statement suggests:

People don't really care about gun rights or social issues. These things are stupid little things that people worry about when their real issues (government guaranteeing them an income, etc.) are not addressed.

LaPierre's statement is interpreted more as:

When people feel uncertain and unsafe, they remember how important the 2nd amendment really is.

The difference being that LaPierre actually sees the 2nd amendment as a legitimate issue in its own right.

Posted at June 14, 2008 2:10 PM in response to "Bittergate" and the NRA: An Observation