Tag: conservatives
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How extremely poor families earn their money, with my thoughts about small to medium enterprises
MRUniversity. "What do we know about how extremely poor families earn their money? This video focuses on families earning $2 a day or less." The video notes that most poor people earn their money with undercapitalized small enterprises. To get a cycle of prosperity going, capital investment is needed. Very small capital improvements can add…
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in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Christian Life, Demography, Ecclesia, Economics, Education, Europe, Links – Saturday, Politics, Public Policy, Race, Religion, Sociology, Sports and Entertainment, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Theology, Vocation1. Conventional wisdom says wearing the red shirt in Star Trek will get you killed. Not so fast. Statistical analysis in Significance Magazine disagrees. (Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration) "… In spite of wearing a redshirt, there is only an 8.6% chance of a member of the operations or engineering departments becoming a…
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Democrats: Losing their Religion
Black, White and Gray: Democrats: Losing their Religion Mark Regnerus was running some numbers using New Family Structure Study (NFSS) data when he found out this about people disassociating from religion: … The most dramatic shifts, however, appear around personal politics. Political affiliation—a one-measure, 1-5 scale of just how politically conservative or liberal our respondents…
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The psychology of libertarian views
Matt Ridley: The psychology of libertarian views … In recently published paper, Ravi Iyer from the University of Southern California, together with Dr. Haidt and other researchers at the data-collection platform YourMorals.org, dissect the personalities of those who describe themselves as libertarian. … … The study collated the results of 16 personality surveys and experiments completed…
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Conservatives, Libertarians, and Big Ideas
EconoLog: Conservatives, Libertarians, and Big Ideas Stephen Bainbridge writes, it is the Libertarians and the progressives who are Big Idea people. Despite their obvious differences in philosophy, they share the absurd belief that if only their big idea(s) came to pass, society would inexorably progress towards some ideal. …“A people’s historic continuity of experience, says…
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“As a Republican, I’m on the Fringe” Robert Maranto
Washington Post: As a Republican, I'm on the Fringe (HT: Presbyweb) Are university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing universities' role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley Jr. wrote "God and Man at Yale" — in 1951. But lately criticism is coming from others —…