John Kerry, US presidential candidate in 2004: ‘It’s long overdue time to raise the minimum wage.’ ‘Raise the minimum wage and training fund to help the poor.’ ‘Desperate need to build more affordable housing.’ ‘Expand EITC as anti-poverty measure.’ ‘Voted YES on welfare block grants.’ ‘Voted NO on allowing […]

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Several months ago, when I wrote to the BBC Sunday Sequence program to refute the claim that SUVs have any significant impact on the climate, presenter William Crawley (who is an old friend) joked that I didn’t specify what kind of vehicle I drive myself. The implication was that the only reason I would […]

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For environmental wackoists, Sir Jonathon Porritt could be either a traitor or a visionary. He is an aforementioned environmental wackoist himself, having been a ‘Friend of the Earth’ and a Green Party figurehead, and current advisor to the Blair government. To these groups of wackoists, what Porritt believes is wildly controversial. To […]

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Dear Naomi
In response to your article in the Guardian, “We Americans are like recovering addicts after a four-year bender”, I’d like to point out a few things I believe you got wrong.
You start by saying that George Bush has been “until recently eerily untouchable”. Funny, I haven’t heard you guys describe him that way […]

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1) I have come to the conclusion that, for most people, some parts of liberty will always be more appealing than others. Say we broadly divide liberty in two parts: the personal/social portion (dealing with who we should be allowed to have sex with, which substances we can put in our bodies, […]

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