December 17, 2012

Keeping the Proper Perspective on Guns and Massacres

Newspapers on and off line, Facebook, TV networks and other sources are going through their over-wrought routines of anguish about the Newton massacre. It was terrible no doubt. Almost every condemning adjective available applies. But events like t...

December 8, 2012

Do 'the people' get the governments they deserve?

So Obama has been re-elected.  Did the American people get the government they deserve? I spent several years working in development economics -- specifically in education for development, mostly as a consultant to The World Bank, but also to ...

November 10, 2012

Mitt Romney's 47% Coming Home to Roost

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.  -Thomas Jefferson As I write this, it seems that Obama got 50.4% of the popular vote, which would be consistent...

October 4, 2012

Obama in Love

Much has been said of Obama's compulsive lying[i].  There is considerable evidence that he lies freely and without guilt, enough so that many people notice it.  But his psychological problems go beyond that.  What is particularly worri...