Highlights on the New book by John Lott: Freedomnomics he points out flaws in previous ways of thinking:
Women shouldn't vote: "What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage."
Fox News Channel isn't conservative: "Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats."
Public schools are government re-education camps: "(P)ublic education was actually designed to spread government-approved values."
Nothing good has come from abortion: "(A)bortion, in fact, increases crime."
Felons vote Democrat: "Remarkably, it looks as if virtually all felons are Democrats."
Lott shows that there are pretty clear answers to what lowers the crime rate, what increases the crime rate and what doesn't have any effect at all. Despite their popularity as explanations for the remarkable drop in crime in the '90s, the aging of the population etc...
2007-07-05
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