Economic Sense

When an economist is asked about a policy such as increasing the minimum wage, he is able to abstract from mathematical models and explain t...

These are some great quotes from our founding fathers. I obtained them from the website of economist Walter E. Williams of George Mason Univ...

Since I’ve covered some of the major objections to beef production ( hormones, feeding grain to cattle(see “ETHANOL AND CORN FOR FOOD ”), an...

There is no such thing as hormone free beef. Conventionally produced beef with hormone (estrogen) implants contains about 1.9 nano-grams of ...

Should we be concerned that demand for corn for ethanol will lead to increased prices of corn based food products for consumers? I'm mor...

Marketing Myth: Overzealous use of antibiotics in beef production is contributing to resistance to antibiotics essential to human health. Th...

If you read my previous entry you might say OK, so what about the environment? What good does it do to provide consumers with healthy food i...

McDonalds has been in the news lately for its unhealthy menu. People like to blame unrestrained capitalism for the poor choices people make ...

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Thanksgiving was not about the Pilgrims embracing diversity and thanking the Indians (otherwise known as Native Americans) for helping them ...

(reprint from Nov '06) George Washington certainly felt that the celebration of Thanksgiving could not be divorced from any religious co...

In the book "What's So Great About America" Dinesh D'Souza points out that the three truly western institutions of science...

With approaching elections, debates about embryonic stem cell research have been given lots of attention. While issues of ethics have been b...

A colleague, who certainly carries views of the more liberal and left wing flavor commented on how out of bounds our state’s concealed carry...

"Would I prefer that the world was nothing but organic agriculture? Yes. But on the other hand GM crops have a much higher yield per ac...

While organic foods provide us with a sense of nostalgia for 19th century agriculture, its claims of safety, sustainability, and ‘greenness’...

Roundup Ready technology (GM) has allowed for 5.4 million pounds of glyphosate herbicide to substitute for 7.2 million pounds of other chemi...

Many pundits try to characterize global warming as a golem created by greedy corporations. Much environmental policy is developed under this...

Just as many of the models that are predicated on anthropogenic global warming are built on poor assumptions, many of the policies proposed ...

Many of the projections that the media, rock stars, and grant greedy academics are using to build a ‘consensus’ on human influenced (lets ca...