Author: Marc Jampole

This past weekend, a Forbes special list of America’s wealthiest counties dated March 5 made the rounds of Internet news and personal finance websites.  The article immediately makes clear that by counties they mean suburban counties. When you click to find out more, you are given the opportunity to look at other Forbes lists, all […]

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Over the past few months we’ve been reading about protests against steep tuition hikes for state universities by students, teachers and other citizens of the sovereign state of California, home of sunshine, freeways and the world’s sixth largest economy.  In another part of the world, many Pennsylvania drivers are up in arms that the state […]

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I’ve now had a chance to see a lot of the coverage of the study of marriage and cohabitation among men and women ages 15 to 44 that was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).  Yesterday I analyzed the coverage in the New York Times, which was schizophrenic in that most of […]

Read More… from The news media completely misses the point on the NCHS–CDC study of marriage and cohabitation.

A story on page A14 of today’s New York Times appears to be at war with itself.  Or perhaps the editor and writer are at war over what’s really important in the story.  As this almost ludicrous tale unwinds, I think we’ll see an ideological prejudice fail at twisting a report into something it’s not—that […]

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We’re witnessing a perfect example of how unsubstantiated myths gain credence among the news media, the general public and, unfortunately, our leaders as well. I think you know the kind of myth I’m talking about, but here are some examples of concepts that the news media, elected officials and other leaders promoted as factually correct […]

Read More… from Wall Street Journal is the latest media to engage in wish fulfillment speculation regarding the euro.

The local Pittsburgh media has reported about a young lady at one of the branches of the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) recently registered a new campus organization, the CCAC branch of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Yes, you heard it right. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus! It’s an organization that wants […]

Read More… from One thing civil society doesn’t need is a lot of kids running around college campuses with concealed guns.

Every once in a while, I feel the need to do some blog house-cleaning.  Let’s start with the windows. The blog has been getting a lot of comments lately, so I thought I should tell readers how we handle them:  My assistant Colette reviews each comment and then posts all except those which are pornography […]

Read More… from Some midwinter cleaning in the house of blog.

The Associated Press reported yesterday afternoon that “President Barack Obama signed an order Thursday unilaterally creating a bipartisan commission to rein in unruly deficits after Congress rejected a similar body with considerably more enforcement power. As I have said a few times and William Greider details in the January 25 issue of The Nation (posted […]

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Earlier this week I proposed that by limiting everyone to one child each, in less than a century we could bring the world population down to 500 million, thereby ending both environmental and economic problems. One reader asked quite aptly how I propose to do it. As the Burt Reynolds’ character says in “Semi-Tough,” Michael […]

Read More… from Is reducing the world population without war, disease or famine just a pipedream?