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Assorted Links (5/20/2012)

By Jim Garven On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading and videos that I have been viewing lately:

Number of Those Working Past 65 Is at a Record High

www.nytimes.com

“While the number of workers over the traditional retirement age has risen, those 55 and under are doing worse.” [...]

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Assorted Links (5/15/2012)

By Jim Garven On May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading and videos that I have been viewing lately:

Jonathan Haidt Answers Your Questions About Morality, Politics, and Religion

www.freakonomics.com

Quoting from this Freakonomics interview with University of Virginia psychology professor Jon Haidt, “Once I lost my feelings of repulsion and anger [...]

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Assorted Links (5/8/2012)

By Jim Garven On May 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading and videos that I have been viewing lately:

‘Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution’

www.amazon.com

“Fair Trade is an enormously popular idea in Christian and secular circles alike. Who, after all, could be against fairness? Victor V. [...]

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Assorted Links (5/2/2012)

By Jim Garven On May 2, 2012 · 1 Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading and videos that I have been viewing lately:

Obama losing rock star status with young

campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com

“Michael Barone on polls showing the Obama enthusiasm deficit among young voters.”

Can Obama Run on His Foreign-Policy [...]

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Assorted Links (4/28/2012)

By Jim Garven On April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:

Freshman Class President

online.wsj.com

“The Wall Street Journal argues that President Obama rocks the youth vote by socking taxpayers.”  This is an important part of the news that President Obama didn’t slowjam the other night on the Jimmy Fallon [...]

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Is Our Adults Learning?

By Jim Garven On April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, David Brooks published an interesting essay in the New York Times entitled “Is Our Adults Learning?“  The basic premise behind his essay can be summarized in the following quote, “Government doesn’t profit from experience because of the way it goes about testing its policy problems. It should try learning the [...]

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Assorted Links (4/18/2012)

By Jim Garven On April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:

The TurboTax Crime Wave

online.wsj.com

“In The Wall Street Journal, Rodney Mock and Nancy Shurtz write that when using TurboTax or other tax software, taxpayers deserve the same defense from IRS penalties as Tim Geithner.”  Quoting further from this [...]

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Cracking Down on Oil Market Manipulation

By Jim Garven On April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This coming Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of the creation by the Obama administration of the “Financial Fraud Enforcement Working Group” (see the MSNBC article from 4/21/2011 entitled “Obama says new task force will examine gas prices”, available on the web at http://on.msnbc.com/JdlbDx). [...]

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Assorted Links (4/14/2012)

By Jim Garven On April 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:

Want to Save the Planet? Turn Right

online.wsj.com

“In The Wall Street Journal, Raymond Zhong interviews Roger Scruton, Britain’s foremost conservative philosopher, who offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.”

My [...]

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Assorted Links (4/7/2012)

By Jim Garven On April 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:

Obama v. SCOTUS

www.washingtonpost.com

Quoting from this article by Charles Krauthammer, “The administration’s case for the constitutionality of Obamacare was so thoroughly demolished in oral argument that one liberal observer called it “a train wreck.” It is perfectly natural, therefore, [...]

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