Globally Rational

//Yesterday, I outlined the best possible sequence of events that could follow from Israel’s recent prisoner exchange with Hezbollah. The best-case scenario required some forward thinking from the educated part of the population, which would (hopefully) eventually start to promote tolerance. However, here is what will happen if even the educated people let […]

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//Until recently, Israel has been adamant about not negotiating with Hamas and Hezbollah; they went so far as to condemn Jimmy Carter for meeting with Hamas leaders. George W. Bush even visited Israel a couple of weeks ago to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their statehood (which many Palestinians considered a slap in the […]

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//There are plenty of social issues that are important in politics these days.  Everybody seems to be highly concerned with what everybody else is doing.  With these issues, I like to ask myself “is it really worth the effort to oppose an issue that some people care so dearly about?”  Some examples:

Gay marriage - I […]

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//Many of you may have heard that President Bush recently stated that he has stopped playing golf in solidarity for the soldiers in Iraq. His rationale:
I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — […]

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//Sunday Rewind is a new feature where I re-publish an old post that I first put up back when nobody was actually reading.  Hopefully, there will be some actual readership this time.
I came across an interesting article today. In short, it is about a study proving that the world’s most incompetent people are typically unaware […]

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//One of my favorite America social issues are the two big questions we make sure to file away from time to time. They are:
1 - Why did we elect Bush?
And
2 - Why did we re-elect Bush?
1 - Al Gore was like our best friend’s dad. A nice guy you didn’t want to sit […]

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//This is the first post in the “Nominal Breakthroughs” series, which will talk about news that is farcically touted as groundbreaking.
The fight against political corruption is one of the most important tasks confronting many of today’s developing countries; for instance, many leaders have stolen billions of dollars (which is worth a lot more in Africa/Asia […]

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//You can count on the Japanese to top the British GPS-based radio show that I wrote about in the first installment of “Digital Dogtags” (click here to see it).
The Tokyo-based Fujitaka Company is seeking approval for a new system which will determine a person’s age from a digital photograph.  The system approximates your age (at […]

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//Isn’t it about time that we stop getting angry at people for stating the obvious?
After “Bittergate,” I think I might have lost hope in our ability to ever recover from our tendency to make a big deal every time somebody says something rational that might just be politically incorrect.  Recently, the popular political blog Crooks […]

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//Not Bush or McCain (not by a longshot), but Rush Limbaugh.
Recently, 235 right-leaning bloggers voted on the 25 most influential conservatives in US politics. The rankings are interesting:
#25) Mark Levin: 6 votes
#21) Hugh Hewitt: 7
#21) George Will: 7
#21) John Roberts: 7
#21) Ronald Reagan: 7
#20) Victor David Hanson: 8
#19) Antonin Scalia: 9
#18) John McCain: 10
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