Saturday, January 2, 2010

Best Posts of 2009

These are only posts I've written; I'll rely on the others to cite their best work if they desire.

The Senate and the Loss of Federalism

Obama and Fuel Standards

You Want Me To Criticize Free Markets? Well, Here's One For You...

Am I a Hypocrite?

It's Time To Kill The Home Mortgage Deduction

Underwater Mortgages: Someone Please Tell Me Why I Should Care

Yucca Mountain Hop: Obama and the Nuclear Waste Storage Issue

Are Newspapers Essential to the Republic?


The Problem With Empathy

Warren Buffet, Hypocrite

Ten Principles for a Republican Renaissance

Hoping that Obama is Lying

Dating and Personal Ads

Harvard to Cut 275 Jobs; Cites Declining Endowment

The Henry Louis Gates Affair

Protecting the Bill of Rights is Never Judicial Activism

In Which I Disagree With Robert Samuelson On High Speed Rail

An Analysis of the Obama Missile Defense Decision

Mosques as Military Targets

A Hard-Luck Health Insurance Story, or Why The Rest Of Us Should Pay To Insure A Harvard Law Grad

Neo-Socialism

Jonah Goldberg is Wrong--Islam Is The Problem (Sort of)

The War On Terror Did Not Create Nidal Hassan

On Mandatory Health Insurance

The Shoe Shine

7 comments:

  1. Will these be coming out in hardcover?

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  2. You're keeping an archive!? I'll bet you got pictures of yourself hanging on the wall in your sitting room.

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  3. I had never read the "Shoe Shine" post.

    And I thought the "Operational Architecture" was the only thing I taught you on the JS.

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  4. I must have missed the voting deadline . . .

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  5. "voting deadline".....that's rich.

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  6. I just read your comments on the 17th. Amendment. I agree with your conclusion, it was a huge mistake. The framers wanted House members to represent the interests of their districts, Senators the interests of their States and the President the interests of the nation as a whole. The 17th. Amendment came about as a reaction to the "states rights" advocates and the ensuing War of Northern Aggression (you may know it as the Civil War).
    Before the 17th. Amendment every Senator owed his job to the State legislatures, whom they directly represented in Washington. The 10th. Amendment was actually taken seriously. I view the 17th. amendment as the beginning of the rot. One of the first steps on the road to an all powerful centralized government, and consequently tyranny.

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