Last week, we spent some time discussing a recent “This American Life” segment on the extraordinary growth of federal disability insurance, which now costs $ 260 billion per year. There are now roughly 8.8 million Americans receiving disability benefits, a number that has doubled since 1995. So what explains this rise? The radio segment offered… Read more »
Posts Tagged: reason
Piers Morgan Demonstrates How Emotion Triumphs Over Reason On Cable News
One of the wonderful things about print and online media is that those venues continue to be a places where ideas can be expressed freely and with a measure of depth. Online political commentary is a broad field in which talented opinion writers and journalists have the liberty to explore complex concepts for a captive… Read more »
The NRA’s reason for their response to Sandy Hook massacre: ‘We had to change the subject’
Twenty dead kids? Let’s change the subject. For one whole week after the horrifying massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of 20 children and six educators, the National Rifle Association (NRA) somehow managed to keep their lips zipped. But then they came out—excuse the expression—guns a blazin. And we were alternately… Read more »
NY may reverse new gun law — and for good reason
State lawmakers in New York rushed to quickly pass gun control legislation after the deadly Sandy Hook shooting in December — so quickly, in fact, that they forgot to exempt law enforcement officials from the strict controls on weapons and ammunition. But now, their hurried legislation is presenting further unintended consequences and the law may… Read more »