This week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" kicks off with our friend Caroline May of "The Daily Caller" and her regular "News You May Have Missed, But Probably Shouldn't" segment.
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When analyzing any social or economic system, the three most important words are, "compared to what?" Capitalism has its shortcomings. It has shortcomings because life has shortcomings in our own subjective evaluations. |
No one likes a cherry-picker. Pick-up basketball players everywhere will attest to the unfavorable stigma immediately attached to any player who lollygags while getting back on defense, hoping that his teammates can somehow get a quick steal and hurl a long pass to him for an easy, uncontested layup. 4 Comments |
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I have already provided some thoughts on Charles Murray's new book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," related to the broader implications of his argument that our country is experiencing an "inequality of human dignity." |
It's no secret that the conservative-libertarian divide has become starker in recent years. Some blame Ron Paul. Others credit YouTube. But regardless of the source, the ideological disputes between the two philosophies are far from resolved. |
I love a good rags-to-riches story. Sam "Walmart" Walton sold magazines and milked cows in small-town Oklahoma before building the world's biggest company. Howard Schultz forged his place in American folklore by brewing the coffee shop movement after a hand-to-mouth childhood in Brooklyn's worst neighborhood. |
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"Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own … If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." In case you missed it among the mosh pit of recent headlines, the quote above is a sound bite of a statement made by President Obama last Friday in Virginia. 3 Comments |
Our featured guest this week on "The RJ Moeller Show" is Dr. Tim Groseclose! Dr. Groseclose is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at UCLA. |
I wrote last time about non-financial sources of capital and private "public" expenditures, as we saw it materialize when a storm knocked out power for 107,000 people for up to a week near where we live in Indiana. |