Of the many, many problems inflicted by an old fool's dithering, that's obviously not one. It's been blindingly obvious since the 40s that nuclear weapons have a powerful deterrent eff… (View Post)

Even if they didn't, it's still entirely wrong to harass people for perceived non-crimes just because you object to their views or some other entirely subjective ground. (View Post)

You'd almost think that kicking the private sector in the balls over and over again and transferring resources to the inefficient and unproductive private sector wasn't the ideal recipe for… (View Post)

If you import a prime age worker you may increase economic growth. But you may well NOT increase per capita growth. It's the latter that counts and we need to be much more concerned about the di… (View Post)

We English speakers are amateurs at pretentious long words though. When we have words like Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe (the widow of a captain of the Danube Steam Boat Company) i… (View Post)