by David Rittgers David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute, served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer. The sheriff's office in Pima County, Ariz., raided the home of former Marine and Iraq combat veteran Jose Guerena, shooting 71 rounds at Guerena and hitting him with 22. The department is now facing a serious controversy over Guerena's death. But the raid isn't the real tragedy. It's a symptom of the real tragedy: ...
Compared to ordinary investors, US Congress members get huge returns on their investments, presumably via their inside line on upcoming government actions. In particular, Congress gets inside info on upcoming US-backed coups, and someone has been trading lots on that info. Gee I wonder who … Researchers examined 16,000 common stock transactions made by … 300 House representatives from 1985 to 2001, and found … portfolios based on congressional trades beating the market by about 6 percent ...
Call it myopia. Call it wishful thinking. Whatever it is, it is insidious. People have a tendency to see something they think is good, to focus in on that with electron-beam resolution, to gaze at it through a straw. Then fixate so firmly on the good they see that can't even contemplate the other side, the bad, the cost, the trade-off. To even imagine that something could shatter that picture-perfect, limpid goodness is so horrific that only the worst sort of human, devoid of compassion ...
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