Here is a striking fact about the human mind: we have great difficulty imagining solutions that have yet to present themselves. It doesn’t matter how often the market resolves seemingly intractable problems, we still can’t become accustomed to this reality. Our minds think in terms of existing conditions, and then we predict all kinds of doom. We too often fail to consistently expect the unexpected.
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The voter matching process is still far from perfect. Blaise Hazelwood of Grassroots Targeting, a Republican firm, said that the process is expensive, and that it’s typically only possible to locate 20 to 40 percent of a given list of voters online in a typical matching process.
in 1885 The New York Times urged restrictive legislation and darkly predicted that “if the streets were lined with eight-story buildings, half of the occupants would be deprived of sunlight, and their children would be etiolated like plants grown in a cellar.” You can tell it’s serious when The Times brings the kids into it.
Many Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today,” said Judge Michael Boudin, appointed to the bench in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. “One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress’ denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest.
Fear is corrosive as acid, not the least when it blinds us to our greatest achievements.
I do stuff like this all the time,” Zuckerberg says in his relaxed tone. “The facebook literally took me a week to make.
Coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally. [Judge] Alsup is a modern hero.
“It’s disappointing that so much resources have to spent on what everybody understands is a policy that not only is ineffective that is racial and prejudicial by its nature. And the two people that don’t understand that is the Mayor and the [NYPD] commissioner,” said Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams.
after watching Espada’s arrogant parade of corruption over the years, we can certainly relate to her schadenfreude. That said, we’ll miss Pedro’s clownish antics if and when he goes up river! Of course, Albany seems to have an inexhaustible supply of colorful buffoons to take his place.
If a few people control political institutions, they will rig the economic game in their favour. This, in turn, gives the holders an incentive to fight to preserve power and others an incentive to displace them. The political game will be far less fraught and so more stable under inclusive political institutions, since people can obtain a high standard of living from voluntary exchange.