Recommended Site I want to take a moment to strongly recommend that you regularly visit John Lott's site. While Mr. Lott is known to many for his role in the gun control debate, his interests appear to be far ranging and his posts are timely and informative.

John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has previously held research positions at other academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his areas of research include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, microeconomics, labor economics, and environmental regulation.

Lott is an author in both academia and in popular culture. He is a frequent writer of opinion editorials, has published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals related to his research areas, and has authored five books, including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics.

Outside of academia, Lott is best known for his participation in the gun rights debate, particularly his arguments against restrictions on owning and carrying guns. He is also known for taking conservative positions on a wide range of political issues.

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  Oleg Volk - Immigrant and Defender of Liberty

See his other stuff as well and visit The High Road forum...

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  Answers, Where are the Answers? I've noticed that this blog has been more reporting what is happening and what ticks us off than it is about answers to the problems.  That is not exactly what I want but there's bound to be some of that.  Why?  Because we don't control much of anything.  So, folks do what folks do and we have to talk about it and what's wrong with it so that we can learn not to do it (whatever "it" is) again.

A good rant now and then is fine, it lets others know what makes us passionate.  Regular grousing about this or that often contains hints about what we really want.  But we are going to try to tender some constructive suggestions for improvement.  Maybe we will do nothing with that but give somebody food for thought.  That's fine with us.  We raised our kids the same way.  Sometimes, you just plant the seed, spread a little manure, maybe water and wait.  The waiting is always the hardest part.

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