Applied Rationality

Applied Rationality focuses on public policy issues and tries to take a liberal perspective that is consistent (comments to the posts will often show otherwise) with neoclassical, rational-choice economics.

Saturday, May 29, 2021

9-year-old shot on a trampoline

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 No other country "lives" like this.  Today an American nine-year-old lost her life while innocently bouncing on a trampoline.  J...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Trump's abuse of another office

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The focus on President Trump's abuse of his presidential office for personal and political gain risks overlooking his admitted  gargantu...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

"Petty" allegations

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Why do some people insist on describing the Sen. Al Franken's alledged sexual misconduct as "petty" or minor? The latest exa...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Can't keep their lies straight

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On Friday Donald Trump denied  that he was even aware of intelligence evidence proving that his disgraced national security adviser and Russ...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

The rantings of this so-called president

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A so-called president who fell three million votes short in the popular vote, whose election was tainted by Russian meddling and possible Ru...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Trump TPP Two-fer Hurts Greensboro and Helps China

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An ill-considered stroke of Donald Trump's pen on Monday removed the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and in the process da...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Homeowner stands his ground, kills his wife

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Senseless gun tragedy in Goldsboro, as a quick-draw homeowner stands his ground and kills his wife. WRAL reports A Goldsboro man acciden...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Orange may be the new black for Fletcher Hartsell

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Justice delayed is, well, sadly all too typical of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBOE), which also punches above its weight i...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Murderous weekend in North Carolina

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Melbourne, Australia has been my beautiful and peaceful home for just over a year now, but I've continued to follow the news from North ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Farewell Greensboro, Hello Melbourne

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Well, it's done. After eight years blessed with the opportunities to work for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, work wit...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Licenses to kill

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The gun apologists argue that lawful concealed carry gun holders pose no risk to the general public. However, 644 people (at least) would li...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

NC tax fairness RIP

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Remember all those very serious explanations from Gov. Pat McCrory and the radical Raleigh Republicans regarding how their massive tax shif...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

ACA succeeding despite Republicans' scorched-earth tactics

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A number of reports this week document notable successes of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) despite Republicans' scorched-earth attempts a...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Aussies laughing all the way to the Ex-Im Bank

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U.S. taxpayers just turned over a whole bunch of loot to Australia's richest person. The Age reports How Australia's richest pe...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Disarming logic

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A biology professor at Boise State University asks for some practical advice and pens one of the best op-ed columns of the year.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to make the health system worse

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Republicans' crocodile tears over people losing their health insurance coverage appear to have dried. The House is preparing to take u...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Casting blame far and wide

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When something goes wrong, do we need to blame someone? Yes, according to an article in the Journal of Political Economy by researchers ...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

What Sheila Salter isn't telling you

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Today's News & Record includes an op-ed by Sheila Salter, a 61-year-old self-employed marketing consultant from Chapel Hill, describ...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Good for thee but not for me

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ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson's affection for fracking is a sometimes thing. ThinkProgress explains . As ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex T...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

160,000 NC residents enrolled thru health exchange--so far

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There's good news to report about the new individual health insurance exchanges that are now operating under the Affordable Care Act. ...
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Dave Ribar conducts research at the Child & Family Policy Lab in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.
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