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The Long View 2006-05-16: President Bush, Immigration, and Puppy Killing

It shouldn't be any surprise that how you ask a question has a big influence on polling results. When it comes to polls asking about Americans political support for immigration, one of the biggest factors is what the respondent thinks the number of immigrants is per year. And

The Long View 2006-05-12: Three Presidents

From the Wikipedia article, Demographics of Russia, it would appear that whatever changed in Russia in 2006 had pretty much the desired effect. Three Presidents President Putin's State of the Nation Address this week bears comparison with the major speeches of FDR, one of which it apparently cites.

The Long View 2006-05-08: Unauthorized Versions

John Reilly mentions the Gospel reading from May 7th, 2006 mostly as the set-up for a Monty Python reference, but today's Gospel reading, from the second chapter of the Gospel of John, really does read like an internet meme: 15 He made a whip out of cords and

The Long View 2006-05-04: Mousssaoui; Nagin; Benedict; The Islands of Stability

Essences or forms are widely misunderstood in a materialistic age. Nonetheless, everything tends to point to the reality of essences, if you know what you are looking at. Mousssaoui; Nagin; Benedict; The Islands of Stability I'm as bloodthirsty as the next guy, but I think that Peggy Noonan

The Long View 2006-05-02: General Strike; Ethanol

I don't remember it it was the same event as the one John Reilly mentions here, but there was a day without immigrants in Los Angeles where all of the illegal immigrants stayed home to show what the impact of their labor was. Mostly the Angelenos were impressed

The Long View 2006-04-28: The Fermi Paradox; Atlas Shrugged; Oil Spike

Since John points to his 1996 essay on Noospheres here, I went and updated that essay with a table of contents and hyperlinks. I've always found the Drake equation to be something of a category mistake, but I at least appreciate people attempting to think things through. The

The Long View 2006-04-24: The Formation of Adjectives & the Obsolescence of Conservatism

I hadn't remembered that Spengler [David P. Goldman] had advocated in 2006 what would in a few years become the scam of relocating the urban poor away from valuable urban cores and dumping them on suburbs. This report about the Venus Express spaceprobe saddened me: [The European Space