We finally get to find out what noted economist Paul Krugman's solution to the country's economic problems is. Krugman is at his best when he sticks to the economics, and puts his lame, petty, partisan attacks aside. Krugman's analysis is interesting. Who knows? He may even be right. But his solution is questionable at best. […]
At the bottom of today's column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman acknowledges his error in depending on Salon's Jason Leopold and an e-mail of dubious origin that indicated that Army Secretary Thomas White was complicit in the accounting fraud at Enron. In a column on Sept. 17, I wrote about evidence that Thomas White, […]
The New Jersey State Supreme Court, following in the footsteps of its counterpart in Florida, has displayed an inability to deal with Arabic numerals. The court today decided that the number 51 doesn't really exist -- at least in state's election law. The judges decided to shut their eyelids tight, stick their fingers in their […]
It looks like Paul Krugman's "gotcha" of Army Secretary Thomas White may have been fabricated. (Thanks to Henry Hanks for the heads-up.) In an article published in the New York Times on Sept. 17, Krugman quoted from an e-mail allegedly sent by White, then an Enron executive, where he urged an underling to "Close a […]
The Weekly Standard has a piece on the growth of Christianity in China. The developments are encouraging not only for Christianity, but also for democracy. (Journalist David) Aikman cites numbers: In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was established, not quite 4 million of 450 million Chinese were Christians. Today, the population is 1.3 […]
I was just flipping channels, and saw on TNN that they are apparently showing the movie "Showgirls." So I'm wondering if it's a 1/2-hour show, after they've edited it for television.
It turns out that the "uranium" seized by Turkish authorities consisted of "zinc, iron, zirconium and manganese." If you'll recall, in "Back to the Future," Doc Emmit Brown got the plutonium needed to fuel his time machine by agreeing to construct a nuclear bomb for some terrorists. Instead, he gave the terrorists a "bomb" made […]
The LordMage reports on his "Adventures with Airport Security." It's funny -- because it happened to him. If it happened to me, I suspect I'd be exasperated or ticked off too. He also has some career options for Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta.
Sen. Fritz Hollings ($-Disney) and his proposed law, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, would require devices that can record or playback digital media to carry government-mandated copy-protection technology to thwart piracy. Princeton University's Edward Felton is compiling "Fritz's Hit List" -- a series of devices that would be affected by the new […]