Of course they agree with us when they're drunk.  It takes a lot of mental energy to suppress all common sense.

This is bizarre.  It seems like Romney is swinging to the right now that there isn't a need to contrast himself with his primary opponents.

Well, every dollar spent on the war was counted as a dollar of GDP, and every soldier killed in the war meant a lower denominator in that per capita figure.  That's a place to start.  Also, when war broke out, Roosevelt reversed course on a lot of restrictive labour policies, including appointing more moderate (ie. less vehemently pro-union) people to the National Labour Relations Board.

I like how the US part of the graph finally drops right around November 2010.  Something big must have happened right around then...

My Chinese-Canadian great-grandfather had multiple wives.

Perfect.

I love the prize idea, but I feel that the quality of conversation here on Ricochet partly comes from the self-selection of potential members.

And unlike liberals, we'll actually hold ourselves to the results we promise.  If it doesn't work, we won't pretend it did.

I considered applying to George Mason because of Williams and people like him.  I didn't because I didn't want to go to the US.

I'm another Canadian who thinks like you!  Also, welcome to Ricochet.

People who try to predict the future always run into the problem that you just...can't.  They're sort of like people who try to fly by flapping their arms really hard.  Still, I hope Dick is right on this one.

And, of course, if you want empirical evidence just type "John Lott" into Google Scholar.

I'll have kids just as soon as I can pay for them...

Unfortunately, I think we need to scrap the term "judicial activism".  Liberals are too easily confused by it.

Ryan's plan supposedly "ends medicare as we know it".  That's some nice wordplay.  If I paint my blue car red, I've ended my car as I know it, because I know it as a blue car.  In fact, any change ends something as we know it.  Is Obama running against change?

When did each of you become conservatives?  Were you raised conservative, or did you swing over from the center or the left?