Does congress matter? 4 Replies

Unemployment is the worst it has been in 16 years (or the last time Democrats lead Congress).…Continue

Started by Edwin Drood in Provocateurs. Last reply by Makenzie A. May 15, 2009.

Issues gone AWOL

With the election just days away, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the issues that were ignored in this campaign by both candidates. Some of those issues include poverty, immigration, crime and perhaps under that…Continue

Tags: mccain, obama, issues

Started by We Op-Ed in 2008 Presidential Election Oct 31, 2008.

Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is?

I heard Dr. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, on NPR last week discuss his new book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for…Continue

Tags: religion, truth, science, heidegger

Started by geoffrey in Provocateurs Feb 26, 2008.

Trade, Economic Development, ISI, Chicago-School Deregulation, & The Asian Tiger Economies (and Chile).

In light of this talk about free trade and what model works best for developing economies, I was wondering about people's thoughts on the merits of Import-Substitution-Industrialization in the early stage of a developing economy. According to some,…Continue

Tags: economics, free trade

Started by Bill in Economy Apr 25, 2008.

Racial Profiling, Airport Security, and a Mad, Mad World 2 Replies

While the history of racial profiling is most familiarly associated with cases dealing with police officers pulling over a disproportionate number of drivers who are black, let's focus this debate on airport security, Arab or Muslim Americans post…Continue

Tags: homeland security, racism, 9/11, terrorism, aclu

Started by Justin in Policy. Last reply by Daniel Cuevas Jul 4, 2008.

Do we really need the Second Amendment? 50 Replies

My very impoverished understanding of the Second Amd. is that it either protects the collective right to a well regulated militia, or it protects the individual's right to own a gun. Which one of these rights the second amendment protects is…Continue

Tags: gun, control, second, 2nd amendment, amendment

Started by geoffrey in Provocateurs. Last reply by j. waters May 31, 2009.

What is a recession? 11 Replies

There has been a lot of nervous hand-wringing over the possibility of a recession in the US economy lately, and I wonder if a good part of the brewhaha doesn't stem from a fundamental confusion about the definition of the term. A recession is a…Continue

Tags: stock, gdp, recession, market

Started by geoffrey in Economy. Last reply by Edwin Drood Dec 7, 2008.

Why Does the Reverend Wright Scandal Matter? 11 Replies

At first I assumed that the nearly universal coverage of Reverend Wright's provocative statements was due to the fact that cable news had nothing to talk about with 7 weeks to go until the Pennsylvania Primary. I wasn't so naive as to think that…Continue

Tags: presidential election, reverend wright, barack obama

Started by CPD in 2008 Presidential Election. Last reply by CPD May 12, 2008.