Curt Doolittle

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  • THE CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL BABY GAP “…some of the key qualities that differ betw

    THE CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL BABY GAP

    “…some of the key qualities that differ between the two ideological groups include the fact that liberals tend to get married later (or not at all), and that conservatives tend to live in more sparsely populated areas of the country (and population density appears to severely impact fertility).”

    Population density DECREASES opportunity costs but INCREASES physical costs. Liberals (like libertarians) are more excited by new (cheap) experiences than conservatives. Urbanity makes experiences easier to find, more numerous, cheaper. But these experiences are obtained in exchange for higher geographic costs that come from density (rent and home ownership, taxes, and petty crime).

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 16:59:00 UTC

  • SINGLE WOMEN RULE AMERICA “President Obama won women by a 55 to 44 percent margi

    SINGLE WOMEN RULE AMERICA

    “President Obama won women by a 55 to 44 percent margin and lost men by a 45 to 52 percent margin, leaving an 18-point gender gap, up from 12 points in 2008. But this difference is dwarfed by the marriage gap—the margin between married and unmarried women. Married women supported the Republican candidate in 2012 by a comfortable six-point margin. It is Obama’s huge victory among unmarried women that delivered the women’s vote and with it, the White House. There is a 43-point difference in the margin between married women and unmarried women, a number which exceeds the gender gap by a factor of two. ” — Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (firm)

    Women are marrying the state, and returning to their natural preference: to bear children at will and place the responsibility for raising them on the tribe.

    (Now, as much as I argue that this will undermine the truce in reproductive strategies that we call monogamy, and by consequence I believe it will undermine the high trust society, I am also cognizant of the fact that we never had the technology before to make it possible to have BOTH a division of labor AND unregulated childbirth. The problem is that I just don’t know. I can’t see how it’s possible. But then, i’m not omniscient either.)

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 16:30:00 UTC

  • SCHIFF ON THE MYTH OF THE 91% TAX RATE IN THE 50’S “…the top marginal income-t

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324705104578151601554982808.htmlPETER SCHIFF ON THE MYTH OF THE 91% TAX RATE IN THE 50’S

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324705104578151601554982808.html

    “…the top marginal income-tax rate in the 1950s was much higher than today’s top rate of 35%—but the share of income paid by the wealthiest Americans has essentially remained flat since then.

    In 1958, the top 3% of taxpayers earned 14.7% of all adjusted gross income and paid 29.2% of all federal income taxes. In 2010, the top 3% earned 27.2% of adjusted gross income and their share of all federal taxes rose proportionally, to 51%.

    So if the top marginal tax rate has fallen to 35% from 91%, how in the world has the tax burden on the wealthy remained roughly the same? Two factors are responsible. Lower- and middle-income workers now bear a significantly lighter burden than in the past. And the confiscatory top marginal rates of the 1950s were essentially symbolic—very few actually paid them. In reality the vast majority of top earners faced lower effective rates than they do today.

    In 1958, an 81% marginal tax rate applied to incomes above $1.08 million, and the 91% rate kicked in at $3.08 million. These figures are in unadjusted 1958 dollars and correspond today to nominal income levels that are at least 10 times higher. That year, according to Internal Revenue Service records, just 236 of the nation’s 45.6 million tax filers had any income that was taxed at 81% or higher. (The published IRS data do not reveal how many of these were subject to the 91% rate.)

    In 1958, approximately 28,600 filers (0.06% of all taxpayers) earned the $93,168 or more needed to face marginal rates as high as 30%. These Americans—genuinely wealthy by the standards of the day—paid 5.9% of all income taxes. And now? In 2010, 3.9 million taxpayers (2.75% of all taxpayers) were subjected to rates that were 33% or higher. These Americans—many of whom would hardly call themselves wealthy—reported an adjusted gross income of $209,000 or higher, and they paid 49.7% of all income taxes.”

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-07 08:34:00 UTC

  • DO HUMANS HAVE LITTLE BODY HAIR? Because we can outrun every other animal on ear

    http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3082/why-do-humans-have-so-little-body-hairWHY DO HUMANS HAVE LITTLE BODY HAIR?

    Because we can outrun every other animal on earth. And doing all that running requires a lot of heat dissipation. Humans just run prey until they are exhausted and kill them when it’s easy. Combine that with spears and not many creatures have a lot of chance. And besides. We spread with fish first and foremost. So take your fish oil. 🙂

    (I can’t comment on Cecil’s site directly because Ukrainian IP’s are justifiably banned from commenting on a lot of blogs.) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 10:48:00 UTC

  • “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” –Willia

    “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

    –William Makepeace Thackeray

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-06 03:09:00 UTC

  • OF THE COLLEGE LIBERAL CHICK MEME (For the similarly curious. Cross Posted from

    http://s154.beta.photobucket.com/user/JDeHanes7/media/feministchick.jpg.htmlORIGINS OF THE COLLEGE LIBERAL CHICK MEME

    (For the similarly curious. Cross Posted from Capitalism)

    “The earliest known use of the original image was in a Blogspot[1] post where the woman is described as a “stupid hippie feminist grunge chick” on March 9th, 2007. According to the Photobucket[16] page where it was originally hosted, the photo may have been taken on October 1st, 2005. The first Quickmeme[2] submission was uploaded with the caption “’I’m against discrimination of any type’ / listens to rap music with lyrics about abusing women”[3] on December 23rd, 2011.”

    PHOTOBUCKET

    http://s154.beta.photobucket.com/user/JDeHanes7/media/feministchick.jpg.html

    (I can’t see any way to confirm that this is the original)

    FIRST BLOG

    (has been deleted by Blogspot so I can’t confirm its use)

    SOURCE

    http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/college-liberal

    That’s all I can find….

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-05 12:37:00 UTC

  • NEW ENGLANDERS AND SOUTHERNERS ARE MORE FAMILIAL THAN NEW YORKERS AND WEST COAST

    http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/familism-in-the-u-s-whites-by-region/YES, NEW ENGLANDERS AND SOUTHERNERS ARE MORE FAMILIAL THAN NEW YORKERS AND WEST COASTERS.

    As if any of us from the east needed confirmation.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-05 11:51:00 UTC

  • BREAKUP OF COUNTRIES IS NO ECONOMIC DISASTER Actually, it’s a fantastic opportun

    http://becker-posner-blog.com/2012/12/breakup-of-countries-no-economic-disaster-becker.htmlTHE BREAKUP OF COUNTRIES IS NO ECONOMIC DISASTER

    Actually, it’s a fantastic opportunity.

    Here is Gary Becker chiming in on the Catalan secession movement.

    To bad he doesn’t turn his attention to what would happen to the united states if we broke up. And how fantastic an opportunity it would be.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-04 15:41:00 UTC

  • ON SECESSION

    http://cnsnews.com/blog/patrick-j-buchanan/stirrings-secessionBUCHANNAN ON SECESSION

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-01 02:25:00 UTC

  • MATTER

    http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Labor/?view=usa&ci=9780199942213INCENTIVES MATTER :

    Source date (UTC): 2012-11-30 22:04:00 UTC