Curt Doolittle

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  • PAPER

    http://www.nber.org/papers/w21142.pdfAWESOME PAPER

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-13 07:48:00 UTC

  • AND EXCELLENT ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA

    http://www.aei.org/publication/political-values-in-putins-russia-a-qa-with-mikhail-dmitriev/RARE AND EXCELLENT ANALYSIS OF RUSSIA

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-12 13:49:00 UTC

  • BRITISH FLIGHTS OF FANCY —More than 50 percent of Britons believe that polygam

    BRITISH FLIGHTS OF FANCY

    —More than 50 percent of Britons believe that polygamy is legal in the United States; in fact, it is illegal in all 50 states. Almost one-third of Britons believe that Americans who have not paid their hospital fees or insurance premiums are not entitled to emergency medical care; in fact, such treatment must be provided by law.

    Seventy percent of Britons think the United States has done a worse job than the European Union in reducing carbon emissions since 2000; in fact, America’s rate of growth of carbon emissions has decreased by almost ten percent since 2000, while that of the EU has increased by 2.3 percent.

    Eighty percent of Britons believe that “from 1973 to 1990, the United States sold Saddam Hussein more than a quarter of his weapons.” In fact, the United States sold just 0.46 percent of Saddam’s arsenal to him; Russia, France, and China supplied 57 percent, 13 percent, and 12 percent, respectively.

    The majority of Britons believe that since the Second World War, the United States has more often sided with non-Muslims than with Muslims. In fact, in 11 out of 12 major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims and secular forces, or Arabs and non-Arabs, the United States has sided with Muslims and/or Arabs.

    Indeed, a new opinion poll finds that British attitudes towards the United States are governed by ignorance of the facts on key issues such as crime, health care, and foreign policy. The survey was commissioned by America in the World, a London-based group that hopes to push back against rampant anti-Americanism in the United Kingdom by dispelling widely held myths about the United States.—-

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:52:00 UTC

  • THE FRENCH LOVE MCDONALDS!! —The French, of course, are famous for heaping sco

    THE FRENCH LOVE MCDONALDS!!

    —The French, of course, are famous for heaping scorn on American fast food. But France’s dirty little culinary secret is that one out of every two French people visit McDonald’s at least once a year. In fact, McDonald’s is so popular in France that the country is now McDonald’s second-biggest moneymaker in the world after the United States. (McDonald’s success is spreading throughout the rest of Europe, too, where sales growth is outpacing that in America. McDonald’s is now one of the biggest private-sector employers on the continent, with a workforce of some 300,000.)—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:51:00 UTC

  • BRITISH BILL OF RIGHTS? SEAN GABB PUTS ONE FORWARD (I thought I’d add to it.) —

    http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/05/10/a-draft-bill-of-rights-for-the-united-kingdom/A BRITISH BILL OF RIGHTS? SEAN GABB PUTS ONE FORWARD

    (I thought I’d add to it.)

    —

    Sean, Thoughts as I have them given Epstein, Hayek, and what we have seen in the states…

    a) No law shall be applied retroactively (no law no crime, no law no fine, no law no fee)

    b) Specify that unreasonable time be determined independent of the resources or constraints of the courts. (this will solve the vast majority of problems)

    c) Search and seizure does not prohibit freezing of assets, and it must, since this has gotten out of control in the states. American courts abuse this to starve you or impoverish you into submission.

    d) All persons acting in a crown capacity: police, administration, and judiciary, are required to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, at all times. Police in america are incentivized to lie and have become very good at it.

    e) Prohibit entrapment. This has gotten out of hand in the states.

    f) Jury nullification for unjust laws. (Obvious)

    h) Separate violent and non violent offenders. Use single person cells if cells are required.

    g) Restore Libel Defamation and Slander (unless statements are true)

    h) prohibition upon infringement not violation.

    If possible (hard to swallow):

    i) universal standing in cases of violation of these (BoR) rights ( meaning that one need not be harmed, only possess direct knowledge of an infringement of these rights. If one possesses direct knowledge and does not act to prosecute infringement, then one is a conspiracy to the infringement.)

    j) all persons engaged in the administration of the law: police, administration and judiciary are personally liable for their actions, and must possess private insurance (bonds) to perform their duties.

    Sean Gabb’s Original Post:

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:33:00 UTC

  • END OF FREE SPEECH. THE SACREDNESS OF LYING. —Second, the constant social pres

    http://www.newmarksdoor.com/mainblog/2015/05/free-speech-in-peril.htmlTHE END OF FREE SPEECH. THE SACREDNESS OF LYING.

    —Second, the constant social pressure of having to monitor everything you say, lest some unguarded politically incorrect utterance loses you friends, dates, status, or even employment makes for (pardon the fifties’ expression) boring conformists, apparatchiks afraid to think for themselves—quite the opposite of the sturdily independent, resourceful, thoughtful, plainspoken, and creative character that used to be the American ideal. Take the case of Smith College president Kathleen McCartney, who joined her students’ “shared fury,” she said, as “we raise our voices in protest” against the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island. Trouble is, she raised her voice in the wrong slogan, declaring that “All lives matter,” when the approved chant was “Black lives matter.” How could she be so disgracefully discriminatory in her nondiscrimination? her scandalized undergraduates exploded. A modern college president may be the very definition of an apparatchik, but there is something humiliating to human nature in the cringingly self-abasing apology that McCartney fairly sobbed out, without even having to be carted off in a dunce cap to a reeducation camp, as if she were her own Maoist cultural-revolutionary commissar. What would it take to make characters like this pull the lever at Treblinka?—

    FROM

    http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_2_free-speech.html

    VIA:

    http://www.newmarksdoor.com/mainblog/2015/05/free-speech-in-peril.html

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:23:00 UTC

  • The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit

    —The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.—

    Bertolt Brecht. Life of Galileo

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 00:53:00 UTC

  • BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST —The general Marxian theory of “universal hist

    BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST

    —The general Marxian theory of “universal history,” to the extent that it has any empirical content, seems to me disproved by modern historical and anthropological investigation.—

    —Marxian economics seems to me for the most part either false or obsolete or meaningless in application to contemporary economic phenomena. Those aspects of Marxian economics which retain validity do not seem to me to justify the theoretical structure of the economics.—

    —Not only do I believe it meaningless to say that “socialism is inevitable” and false that socialism is “the only alternative to capitalism”; I consider that on the basis of the evidence now available to us a new form of exploitive society (which I call “managerial society”) is not only possible but is a more probable outcome of the present than socialism….—

    —On no ideological, theoretic or political ground, then, can I recognize, or do I feel, any bond or allegiance to the Workers Party (or to any other Marxist party). That is simply the case, and I can no longer pretend about it, either to myself or to others.—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 14:02:00 UTC

  • LIBERALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF WESTERN SUICIDE —Burnham’s thesis is straightfor

    LIBERALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY OF WESTERN SUICIDE

    —Burnham’s thesis is straightforward. “.Liberalism,” he writes, “is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism-the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future-falls into place. Implicitly, all of this book is merely an amplification of this sentence.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 13:53:00 UTC

  • Why Were All The Polls In The 2015 Uk General Election So Different From The Results?

    THE CORRECT ANSWER
    Nate Silver is probably the world’s leading analyst of polls.  His opinion, stated yesterday, is that

    –“The World May Have A Polling Problem,” Silver asserted. “In fact, it’s become harder to find an election in which the polls did all that well.” Silver went on to cite four examples where the polls had failed to provide an accurate forecast of the election outcome: the Scottish independence referendum, the 2014 U.S. midterms, the Israeli legislative elections, and even the 2012 U.S. presidential election, where “Obama beat the final polling averages by about 3 points nationwide.”
    “[T]here are lots of reasons to worry about the state of the polling industry,” Silver concluded, citing a range of factors. “There may be more difficult times ahead for the polling industry.”—



    What he is saying is that there is conscious, and increasing bias in the polls, and that he will be able to use forensic statistics to determine who is biasing polls by how much.

    The purpose of polling whenever results are reported is to manufacture opinion.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-were-all-the-polls-in-the-2015-UK-general-election-so-different-from-the-results