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Market Power: Why Did Mizzou Lose to Baylor?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:22:00 -0500

With all due respect to the Bears, the Mizzou loss to Baylor almost defies explanation. A 14-point underdog that had scored 34 points in 4 previous Big XII games, all loses, Baylor had only won one previous Big XII road game in the history of the league. After the stunning [...]

The Bickersons: Work

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:06:00 -0500

Six little pictures to show you why I love working in an elementary school.

Pictures [...]

SCSUScholars: test

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:00 -0500

trying a post from my Android phone. if this works I am happy. [...]

SCSUScholars: test

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:44:00 -0500

trying a post from my Android phone. if this works I am happy. [...]

Bear Creek Ledger: Here’s PTSD. That farce of 2nd Hand PTSD is debunked by someone who knows

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:19:09 -0500

JR Salzman knows PTSD and he knows Ward 57 at Walter Reed Hospital. JR exposes the hypocrisy of the media pushing this farce as an excuse for Major Nidal Hasan’s terrorist attack at Fort Hood. I’m more than a little angry right now. Yes, I’m irate that some sh-tbag Major (“sh-tbag” [...]

Residual Forces: Good News – Bad News

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:05:20 -0500

Number of comments: 1

So good news, Apple has finally gotten around to allowing the iPhone to receive text message pictures.

Bad news, my girlfriend was the first to send me one.

Why bad news? Because she got to go shoot fun guns at work today. The text was “Full auto [...]

Because I said so: Legislation Protects Women and Girls From Sex Traffickers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0
Gov. Don Carcieri (R.I.) signed legislation closing a loophole that made indoor prostitution legal in the state — essentially a "welcome mat" for sex traffickers. The three bills included in the legislation end Rhode Island's status as the only state that allowed indoor prostitution (brothels) statewide. It is legal in [...]

BikeBubba'sBits: Thoughts on carbon emissions

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:53:00 -0500

Old home: 2x4 walls and R30 ceilings, good windows, heating bill of $60 last month without pulling much through the water heater.

New home: 2x6 walls and R50 ceiling, good windows, heating bill of $30 last month while using a LOT of hot water.

Conclusion; if you want [...]

SCSUScholars: It's a spending problem

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:07:00 -0500

Analyzing the current fiscal trend and the Left's answer to it, Keith Hennessey concludes:
This is why I try to encourage elected officials to use the phrase “spending discipline” rather than “fiscal discipline.” Our long-term deficit problem is a spending problem.Welcome to Minnesota, where Governor Pawlenty has announced he [...]

Minnesota Democrats Exposed: HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY FROM THE NRCC

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:03:49 -0500

Tomorrow, as you take a moment to reflect upon the servicemen and women who have served our country, please check out this special video honoring our Veterans. The quote is from Judge William S. Sessions, former FBI Director and Captain – United States Air Force 1951-1955 – and read by [...]

Power Line: Voters' Revenge?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:55:10 -0500

How are voters reacting to the Democrats' ramming Pelosicare through the House? It may be a coincidence, but in the Rasmussen survey the Republicans have jumped out to a six-point lead on the generic Congressional preference poll. It will be interesting to see whether this proves to be a' [...]

EckerNet.Com: Happy Birthday To You!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:23 -0500

Yeah that title should be in my best Marilyn Monroe voice….

Happy 234th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps! Happy Birthday to all Marines, active or otherwise. Stay safe in whatever you’re doing and enjoy another year of the corps.

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Market Power: College and the Fallacy of Composition

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:06:00 -0500

Fallacy of composition: whatever is true for the individual is also true for the whole. Example: if I stand at a football game, I get a better view if I'm the only one who stands up. If everyone stands up*, my view is probably no better or, quite possibly, worse. [...]

Market Power: Testing for Twitter Part Deux

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:59:00 -0500

I'm still checking some Twitter connections with my Typepad account. I apologize for any annoyance that this might cause. [...]

Market Power: Testing for Twitter

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:11:00 -0500

I am changing how I send my blog posts to Twitter. Please disregard this post. [...]

Market Power: Mark Cuban Interested in Buying the Dodgers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:06:00 -0500

Mark Cuban was kept out of the running for the buying of the Chicago Cubs, but he's still interested in buying an MLB team. From the LA Times.

Mark Cuban, the high-profile owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, said Monday he would consider adding the Dodgers to his portfolio.

As the [...]

Power Line: Wish fulfillment journalism, Part Two

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:01:22 -0500

The Washington Post hits a new low in foolish, partisan reporting in this front-page story about Dede Scozzafava and the race in New York-23. Written by Jason Horowitz, with all the finesse of a third-tier lefty blogger, the piece bears the nuanced title: "'Scozzafava' Turns Into Epithet: It's'" [...]

Market Power: You've Got to Be Kidding Me!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:00 -0500

How does this happen?

Mizzou’s women’s soccer team became the first regular-season champion in the Big 12 Conference to be excluded from the NCAA Division I tournament.Mizzou failed to secure one of the 34 at-large bids in the 64-team field.

The Tigers (13-6-3, 7-1-2) won the regular-season title but missed out on the conference’s automatic [...]

Market Power: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:46:00 -0500

HT to Kip.

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Market Power: Does Mizzou Have Some Cancers on Its Football Team?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:39:00 -0500

Baylor beat Mizzou this weekend in a 40-32 punch in the teeth and kick in the mouth. Not only had the Bears only scored 34 points in their previous 4 Big XII games without star QB Robert Griffin, they had only won one other Big XII road game EVER. That [...]

Market Power: Eugene Fama Defends his Efficient Markets Hypothesis.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:35:00 -0500

Link here. Money Quote.

Most investing is done by active managers who don't believe markets are efficient. For example, despite my taunts of the last 45 years about the poor performance of active managers, about 80% of mutual fund wealth is actively managed. Hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative asset classes, which have [...]

Minnesota Democrats Exposed: MN SENATE GOP CAUCUS RELEASE – SEN KOCH TO CARRY PAWLENTY AMENDMENT

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:26:39 -0500

Number of comments: 3

(Saint Paul) – Senator Amy Koch (R-Buffalo) announced today that she will be the chief Senate author of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s “Spending
Accountability Amendment” during the 2010 Legislative Session.

The bill will be heard at a special meeting of the Senate Taxes Committee on December 7th at 10 AM in Room [...]

Fraters Libertas: Free To Go

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:00 -0500

All of the recent commentary and remembrances of the fall of the Berlin Wall remind us again of how the Wall became a stark symbol of the divide and differences between the Communist block and the West. It brought clarity to the Cold War struggle and made efforts to claim [...]

SCSUScholars: Grandma and the necktie

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:56:00 -0500

Arguing that “economic incentives in health care” are perverse, David Leonhardt asserts that “As long as doctors and hospitals are paid for each extra test and treatment, they will err on the side of more care and not always better care. No doctor or no single hospital can change that. [...]

Market Power: NBER Study: The Minimum Wage and the Body Mass Index

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:16:00 -0500

From David Meltzer and Zhuo Chen (HT Greg Mankiw):

Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined [...]

Power Line: The Washington Post -- still not jumping to any conclusions

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:26:10 -0500

Nidal Hasan continues to get the benefit of the bogus doubt from the Washington Post. Over the weekend he was described as having "allegedly opened fire" at Fort Hood. Today, the Post's main front-page headline calls him the "Fort Hood suspect."

Meanwhile, though, a ' [...]

SCSUScholars: Representative Bachmann Gets It Right

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:26:00 -0500

Last evening, November 9, the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Maria Anne "Hansi" Hirschmann" was the keynote speaker at a dinner fundraiser for Twila Brase's Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC). Hansi's talk was on freedom and more will be posted later.
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Market Power: Silly Quote by Dick Armey

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:15:00 -0500

Harvard has one of the most reputable Economics departments in the nation and the world, so Dick Armey's comment about Harvard (and Larry Summers) is just plain ludicrous. Greg Mankiw:

Okay, this has got to be one of the goofiest comments from a major political figure in recent weeks:
"I don’t [...]

Residual Forces: Emmer Picks Up 8 Legislators’ Endorsement

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:49:37 -0500

Tom Emmer picked up 8 big endorsements in his bid for Governor.

GOP Rep. Tom Emmer’s campaign for governor picked up the support of eight state lawmakers. They are:

Bruce Anderson, HD 19A,
Mark Buesgens, HD 35B,
Steve Drazkowski, HD 28B,
Tom Hackbarth, HD 48A,
Mary Liz Holberg, HD 36A,
Amy [...]

Power Line: Paul Rahe: Obama's gestures, part 5

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:30:47 -0500

Professor Paul Rahe writes to comment on President Obama's remarks on the occasion of the festivities in Berlin yesterday:

In yesterday's post, I failed to anticipate Barack Obama's cleverness. He did appear in Berlin -- metaphysically, if not physically. He did not honor our allies with his presence. He [...]

Bear Creek Ledger: Michael Steele’s Strange Promotion of the GOP

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:06:51 -0500

Number of comments: 4
Michael Steele is once again on his strange apology tour for all ‘us’ racist Republicans. If Steele believes this is the way to promote and garner support from Tea Partiers and grassroot activists he is failing. We all know those that live and work in the Beltway of DC have [...]

Power Line: While Obama sleeps

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:02:14 -0500

NRO posted five segments of Peter Robinson's Uncommon Knowledge interview with Victor Davis Hanson and Robert Baer. Professor Hanson is of course the brilliant classicist and historian; Baer is the former CIA operative and author, most recently, of Sleeping With the Devil. Baer's See No Evil, about [...]

Bear Creek Ledger: 2nd Hand Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:39:45 -0500

Nidal Hasan is lawyered up and the word is they will use a defense of 2nd Hand PTSD! Because this jihadist was psychiatrist and unfortunately this murderous Islamic traitor was counseling our troops on PTSD, he caught this mental condition not from being in combat but through the osmosis of [...]

Power Line: A Berlin footnote

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:47:13 -0500

Introduced by Secretary of State Clinton, President Obama made a surprise appearance by video at yesterday's festivities celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. The White House video of Obama's remarks is below; video of Secretary Clinton's address together with Obama's remarks as broadcast at the [...]

Market Power: A Profile of Schell's Brewery

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:36:00 -0500

From the Fairmont (Mn.) Sentinel]. [...]

faithmouse: A Mother Teresa Portrait

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:04:00 -0500

A new 18 by 24 inch Mother Teresa portrait on stretched canvas. Click to view larger.

A Mother Teresa Portrait - Ebay Art Auction [...]