Yes we are. And you're not on our team until you admit that God made the earth in 7 days and just made it all look to be billions of years old with planted fossilized evidence of evolution.

With this response and the recent punishment of fiscally conservative congressmen, the GOP seems to be trying to impress on everyone that it's a party that does not deserve to be in power.

I'd agree with the urbanization conjecture and say it has a lot to do with where Asian Americans live. I ran some numbers on the population of Hispanics and Asians a while ago and found when you look at how blue/red a state is, the Asian American population is about 3x more concentrated in blue states than the Hispanic population.

Even looking at the Wikipedia state tables tells you a lot when you sort by population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_Americans#US_States_by_Asian_Americans_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans#Population_by_state_or_territory

For example, the top 3 Hispanic states are CA, TX and FL, with almost as many in TX + FL as there are in CA. On the other hand you have to look pretty far down to see the most populous red/purple state other than TX in the Asian-American table.

Looking at the numbers by urban population may paint a more drastic picture.

As some say, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What? How come no one told me CK was playing in Atlanta?

I'm sure you're not referring to the master storyteller Quentin Tarantino, and will assume you're talking about his evil cousin, Quentio Tarantio.

Yes, I was once a naive libertarian who thought that the government should protect our liberties as well. Don't worry, you still have time to mature and grow out of it.

Re: everyone asking why this is a big deal or what it means

This sounds a lot like TED talks that have been given in the last couple years.

Here is Paul Romer explaining his idea of charter cities in 2009, and here he is a couple years later recounting steps taken to plan one in Honduras. I assume this is the same city in the article.

I think the idea boils down to transplanting institutions from successful countries into new places that have been suffering without them, like HK and Singapore…which have both since surpassed the US in GDP per capita.

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I think it's pretty well known that GRE and SAT test performances map pretty well to IQ test performance. This article just seems to be saying that LSAT does as well.

The result that would interest me is whether the boosted score from studying for these tests is just a transient or more permanent effect, and the evidence I've heard so far indicates it's the former.

Paying taxes may be the highest form of patriotism for the rich, but the poor can do their part as well by voting Democrat.

My #1 as well. More generally, I despise about 90% of the drivers I encounter on my way to school. Seriously, learn to drive, Atlanta.

It was pretty funny. Probably more so for people who knew 'that guy' in college.

Don't you know he's generally a cheerful man?

Her 'blame the businesses for getting cheap labor while they cost us more in welfare' sounds a lot like the liberal position against Walmart. But they both ignore the benefit of lower costs to consumers that increases the effective level of wealth for everyone.

Her statement around the 15 minute mark about forming a good case on immigration that "I don't think you should have to show data" shows about how seriously she wants these arguments to be taken. I at least enjoyed Peter Robinson's pressing her on the weak points.

Also, the 1910 census data shows areas where roughly 22% of the German residents remained monolingual, compared to about 9% of second generation hispanic residents today. The whole "it's different now, because my white ancestors assimilated better" argument needs a lot of reworking.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/irb/irb_october2010.pdf

He was a villain, to be sure, but as I've read it, Saddam probably wouldn't have grown to power without help from our CIA and military. Like the Shah, Pinochet, Somoza and all the rest of them.

Like I said, I'm agnostic, but I've never heard a neocon defend our past actions that continue to haunt us, other than to say that bloody dictators were necessary to fight communism, as if that's an obvious explanation for someone growing up in post-Cold War America.

If the neoconservative stance on law enforcement were in line with its foreign policy, they would regularly bust down the doors and arrest anyone in the shady part of town who might (but likely doesn't) possess a weapon. And then tell the thug next door that they're in charge of the house.

--Foreign policy agnostic