Sunday, November 15, 2015

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it

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The continued rantings and screechings of the authoritarian few (ideological offspring of the Frankfurt School as they are and which have so...

You have to get the diagnosis right to get to a good remedy

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An interesting example of talking at cross-purposes as well as of epistemic closure. Ben Casselman is a reporter at the Fivethirtyeight s...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

If someone says something unkind, report it to the police - Pravda edition

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This thuggish suppression of diversity of opinion and free speech is getting out of hand. Two samples that should be dismissed as unreprese...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. - What?

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I have heard this quotation a number of times over the years and taken it at face value but with a nagging question in my mind about the con...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence

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Growing up and in college, I never really took to T.S. Eliot. I knew his story, I was assigned and read some of his poems in classes, but h...

Religion and morality are indispensable supports of prosperity

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George Washington's Farewell Address of 1796 is an often overlooked document that warrants occassional revisiting. One passage in par...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Dramatic outcomes occur when multiple events coincide in a perfect storm

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An apocalyptic article, The Alarming Signposts that this Could Be a Crazy Year by Jonathan Rose. Rose starts out. I was fifteen, it was 1...

Versailles Treaty not as harsh as the terms for the end of WWII

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From 10 big myths about World War One debunked by Dan Snow. His ten myths are: 1. It was the bloodiest war in history to that point 2. Mo...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Cultural valuation of education

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From How upwardly mobile are Hispanic children? Depends how you look at it. by Nathan Joo and Richard V. Reeves. I have in the past made ...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Effect size and publication bias: old small studies have big effects and new large studies have small effects

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From Everything I Needed to Know (About Publication Bias), I Learned In (Pre-) Kindergarten by Gabriel. I constantly grumble about newspap...