All Star Break: Buying Good Baseball Even Less Certain
Opening Day's correlation of salary rank to power rank was an ok (but I still wouldn't bet on it) 0.59.
Leading the Way: Heritage & the Conservative Movement Since 1973
Right before July 4th, I finished a history of the conservative intellectual movement. The book finished in the mid 1970s, right as the conservative movement was about to take off. There is another history to be written of how conservatism's thinkers and writers saw some of their ideas become reality through the 1980s and 1990s. Leading the Way charts that history in a different way, as a biography of Ed Feulner and thus The Heritage Foundation.
Knowing where you came from: The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
I went to Patrick Henry College, where in the government program we read widely--from Plato to Plantinga to Postman. Reading primary authors was a highlight of my studies. Something was missing, and I found it in this book by George Nash.
WSJ Editorial Board Calls It Right on Immigration
Over the last few months, the Wall Street Journal's editorial board has been right on immigration. While I don't think the the mammoth bill passed by the Senate, some of the conservatives who oppose it are being wildly inconsistent.
Using the habit loop to shape Heritage Action's legislative scorecard
My last post recommended The Power of Habit, which I recently finished. At the end of the post, I proposed a set of questions that connect the habit loop with marketing. Here's how we the habit loop guided development of our legislative scorecard website.
The Power of Habit
Humans are creatures of habit.
Sometimes I don't need more options
Gmail now lets me select an on-screen Dvorak keyboard.
Word Games in Washington
And then I realized my incessant news reading helps me win:
Chart of the day: how companies assess the risk of growing government
The analysts Bloomberg Government did a study, publicized by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, on how companies' assessment of risk factors have changed over time. The notable change, between 2005 and 2011, is the increase in the risk factors they see arising from government.