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Innumeracy at CNN

At the moment (and it’s been this way for quite a while), CNN has Amy Klobuchar 84 votes behind Pete Buttigieg, and 2.1% of the vote behind Pete Buttigieg. Which should mean that the total number of...

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Swamp Creatures

Here’s what I saw on the news tonight: 1) A President exploiting the power of his office to manipulate the justice system. 2) A presidential candidate boasting about how, in her first act as a state...

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Stop-And-Think

I hold these truths to be self-evident: Any law whatsoever, no matter how desirable on balance, will impose some costs on someone somewhere. In any society with more than about 12 people, it is...

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The Rules of Excommunication

If Bernie Sanders wants to say that Fidel Castro occasionally did something good, while acknowledging that he often did things that were very bad, I think that’s a reasonable position. (It might also...

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Recommended Reading

1. Bernie Sanders says (repeatedly) that he wants the United States to be more like Sweden. Bring it on! No estate or inheritance taxes, no minimum wage, a much higher ratio of consumption taxes to...

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