In order to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons we need to understand why countries want nuclear weapons, and then we need to understand the incentives that could be put in place to cause them to not want those weapons anymore. We can boil the reasons for countries wanting nuclear weapons down to four primary motivations; 1) self-protection, 2) money/power/prestige,…
Problems and Solutions
I’ve got problems and I’ve got solutions. Or at least I’ve got problems. I might need some help on the solutions.
There’s nothing like 4 assassination attempts and taking 10 bullets, including 2 to the head, to help you see things clearly. Or at least so it would seem for Raquenel Villanueva, a Mexican defense attorney. From the article:
Mexican media have dubbed her the “devil’s advocate” for her role in defending a string of senior cartel figures and their…
According to this CNN.com article, recently some illegal immigrants were caught, detained, and then driven to a government office so they could fill out paperwork that would allow them work legally here. One them is named Gerardo, who came here 11 years ago. He’s now married and has 5 kids. Now here’s where I get to surprise some of…
Free markets and capitalism have gotten a bit of a beating lately in the press as they get blamed for the current economic downturn. In response, politicians are calling for increased regulation by the government, ostensibly to better “serve” the general public. Proponents of increased government regulation theorize that a relatively small number of government employees can effectively direct and…
Roland Martin thinks so. In response to the Pope’s statement with regard to HIV/AIDS that “You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem.” Martin responds “People are having sex. Catholics are having sex. Heck, some Catholic priests have abandoned their oath and have had sex. As a layman and the husband of…
I’m a white guy. I’ve known relatively few black people in my life, and I can’t claim to have any close friends who are black. I’m also not a mathematician, but does that disqualify me from telling someone 2+2=4? I think ending poverty in the black community, as well as any other community, is about that easy, and the only…
Juan Williams’ original intent may have been to merely create the longest book title of all time when he wrote Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It, but the result is a phenomenal take on what has gone wrong with the civil rights movement…
Big businesses don’t care about people, they just care about profits. Therefore, the government needs to step in and make sure that businesses treat people right.
This is the mantra repeated in word and deed by liberals, leftists, and the Democrat leadership. But it is 99% false. In truth, the more government regulates business, the more business regulates government, and…
Here’s a Thanksgiving message for you. Did you know that socialism could have killed the pilgrims? Originally the pilgrims in America lived in a communal setting where everyone contributed all their crops to the governor, and then it was doled out equally for all. But in an attempt to change things and ensure their survival, Governor William Bradford…
A commuter train crashes head-on into a freight train in Southern California. Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch all go under in the same year. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been taken over by government regulators. In all these cases specific people have been blamed, but sometimes it’s not people who are the root cause…
Given that Craig wears a black Frenchman’s hat, art geek glasses, and lives in San Francisco, I shouldn’t be too surprised that he’s backing Obama for President. What I am surprised about is that the views expressed in his article actually make sense.
He advocates using technology to facilitate providing basic services and increasing transparency (especially for lobbyists),…
Our society leads us to divide everything into groups of two. Black and white, legal and illegal, conservative and liberal, and Republican and Democrat. This is an inherent characteristic of the world we live in, because by dividing things into groups of two, people get what they want. That is, a TV station broadcasts the news wants high numbers of…
Nearly everyone agrees the educational system is broken. Nearly everyone (except for crazy people) wants our children to have a better education than they now get. Where we disagree is on how to accomplish better the goal of better education for our children. Enter the school voucher debate. There are many arguments against and for, but if the goal is…
Success and failure go hand in hand. They’re the two sides of the same coin. You pick up one end of the stick you pick up the other, and so forth.
I’ve been a skater since 4th grade, and I’m 33 now. I’ve had too many scrapes, bruises, sprained wrists and ankles to count, but I can sure count the…
Because it’s not an effective deterrent when a person is living a lifestyle that is more likely to result in their death than being on death row. Case in point; crack dealers. As a crack dealer you run a 1 in 4 risk of being killed within a four-year period. If you’re on death row in Texas, you run a…
One of the fundamental problems politicians seem to have is with basic economics. The laws of supply and demand are simple, so simple you could explain them to a 5-year old, and yet a men ten times that age with decades of experience can’t seem to figure out what any kid on the street knows, which is that when you…
While money certainly matters, maybe it doesn’t matter as much as we think. But even if you don’t care how much money a candidate gets, you probably still care where he gets it from. This is what led to the McCain-Feingold legislation, or least that’s what they would have you believe. The truth is probably that politicians saw it as…
