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Mitch Daniels, the two-term Republican governor of Indiana is, as far as I can recall, the only potential President I've had dinner with...

On paper, NJ governor Chris Christie sounds like a pretty good nominee for the Republicans in 2012. The GOP these days is rooted in the Sout...

In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to take away the collective bargaining power of the teacher's union follows ye...

From my review in Taki's Magazine of Unknown with Liam Neeson: Orson Welles once explained that he was, inevitably, what the Comédie-...

With Chicago politics back in the news, I was reminded of one of the weirder political facts of this decade and the last: Tony Rezko, longti...

National Geographic has an article " Taming the Wild " by Evan Ratliff on the now famousunder-the-radar experiment by a renegade S...

The centerpiece story on NYTimes.com is: Bank Closings Tilt Toward Poor Areas By Nelson D. Schwarz Government data shows that as banks sh...

A reader writes: I'm spending about 50% of my time in Japan these days.   I've been traveling there for years both for personal an...

For 20 years, you've always heard about how horrible Japan's economy is. In 2008 you heard over and over about how the worst thing t...

One of the better known social science studies of recent years is the 2002 study by Stacy Dale and Alan B. Krueger finding that it doesn...

From my new VDARE.com column : The unprovoked killing by government forces of five Shi’ite protestors in the Persian Gulf statelet of Bahrai...

A reader writes with some experience in SoCal financial circles writes: -- Essentially, Michael Milken felt a certain level of guilt and agr...

Over at physicist Steve Hsu's site Information Processing blog, Ron Unz digs up a three decade old term paper he wrote as a Harvard fre...

In the LA Times, E. Scott Reckard, who did a fine job covering the SoCal mortgage wheeler dealers, reports : Federal prosecutors have sh...

Beyonce, the top African-American singing star, has apparently been expensively turning herself into a Scarlett Johansson-lookalike. Not sur...

From a long LA Times article celebrating the 83-year-old head of the Los Angeles ACLU, Ramona Ripston, who is retiring after 40 years on the...

From The American Prospect : Moral Combat Why do liberals play computer games like conservatives? By Monica Potts I eventually got the hang ...

From my review in Taki's Magazine : Never Let Me Go : Tea Time for Organ Harvesters Although the movie industry is always accused of ph...