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Employment is an increasingly lagging indicator. Tyler Cowen, Professor Of Economics, explains . Update: Arnold Kling also weighs in .

Many in the media have been reporting what Vice President Dick Cheney didn't say , while claiming that he did say it. So I'm going to try and set the record straight with what Cheney did say. As reason has noted , Here's the full relevant statement from the transcript: Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us. Most of the reports either omit the rest of the quotation entirely, or append it elsewhere, as though they weren't part of one long, multi-clause sentence. As I read this, he's not saying the danger is that if we elect Kerry, then the danger is that we'll be attacked. He's saying that if we elect K...

"To take no notice of a violent attack is to strengthen the heart of the enemy. Vigour is valiant, but cowardice is vile." --Ancient Egyptian. The Pharaoh Seunsert III. cit. H.R. Hall, Ancient History of the Near East, p. 161. According to a global poll more people throughout the world would vote for John Kerry over George W. Bush in the upcoming elections. I've often been asked how I could support a President who has the whole world protesting against him . There is the undeniable fact that no country on earth has freed more people than the United States since WWII. "Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Afghanistan, Grenada, Kuwait, South Korea, the former captive nations of Romania, Bulgaria, the Czechs, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania (all holding elections since the early 1990s), and the other former Soviet republics". And who has caused the most problems? Who gave us communism, which was the 20th century's greatest killer-killing many more than Hitler himself...

How do you think the country that "contributes twice as much money to fight AIDS globally as the rest of the world combined, and whose drug companies developed the medicines that stopped the progression of HIV" would be treated at a giant conference on AIDS like the one held in Bangkok in July? If you answered with respect and admiration you would be wrong. The answer is vilification and the country in question is the United States. It is treated that way precisely because of its Christian principles .

You often hear the number 45 million quoted but you rarely hear who comprises these numbers. Everybody just assumes it's the poor, the few who can't afford it. Dr. David Gratzer has gone through the numbers and his results will shock you. He writes, A full 16% of the uninsured, the study found, have incomes above $75,000 a year and could obviously afford insurance if they chose to buy it. Roughly a third of those lacking insurance earn $50,000 a year or more. You may think that a poor single mom with three children living in South-Central Los Angeles is among the uninsured, but in fact, she is eligible for Medicaid, as are her children. The BlueCross BlueShield study notes that 1 in 3 of the uninsured are eligible for — but not enrolled in — a government-sponsored health program. Because Medicaid and children's health programs allow patients to be signed up literally in the ER, these individuals could be covered; they just choose not to do the paperwork. And of the remai...

A leading Catholic official is blasting a proposal in the Netherlands that would allow children under the age of 12 to request assisted suicide.

Adam Young has an informative article detailing The Origin of Income Tax .