Globally Rational

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Plenty of us have heard that over 60% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find Iraq on a map of the Middle East (yes, a map of the Middle East… not even a map of the world) in a 2006 survey (that’s three years after the start of the war). I just took a look […]

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Hillary Clinton’s latest (of many) ridiculous comments really gives us an insight into her mind. People have said that they want to look past her slip-ups, but when we’re selecting a President, I think it’s very important to analyze these small comments to get a better picture of what the candidate will be like […]

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I’ve come across a lot of people who oppose the recent suggestion of implementing a sales tax on Internet purchases.  My favorite line of reasoning is the argument (which I heard on a radio interview with a random online retailer) that some of these businesses are already just barely scratching a profit and that a […]

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In a campaign full of pointless buzzwords and endless political maneuvering, I was not surprised to read that Hillary Clinton is now telling her supporters to “turn off the TV.” Her suggestion was, as one would expect, met with applause… probably because the audience chose to listen to the power and intonation of her voice […]

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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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A few days ago, Hillary Clinton decided that economists are wrong about the potential effect of a gas tax rebate. Her exact words: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists … We’ve got to get out of this mindset where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things […]

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This is the second guest post by Kola. He will be a more regular writer in the future, so we won’t need to use the term “guest post” anymore for him.
What is this magical word that conjures up feelings of resentment in the American people? It didn’t sound connotatively negative until the media […]

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This is the third article in my View From Above series. Click here to see the first two: the first one covers Kuwait, London, New York, and Boston; the second one covers Missouri and Indiana.
Off in the distance, I see the lights emanating from Pittsburgh. Compared with the rest of the areas along […]

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This is the second post in my View From Above series. Click here to see the first, which covers Kuwait, London, New York, and Boston.
As I write this, I’m flying over central Indiana as part of my trip from Kansas City to Baltimore. Out of one corner of my window, I can see […]

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Today is the day that many Americans will rush to the post office to get their taxes filed right at the deadline. Personally, I got a refund this year from the federal government, but I owe a couple of hundred dollars to the state government… which means that I filed my federal taxes early […]

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