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When is it wrong to classify?

Medical providers use ethnicity to improve treatment

Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates' arrest has given new life to the issue of racial profiling. We can think of profiling in general as a practice where people use an observable or known physical attribute as a proxy or estimator of some other unobservable or unknown attribute. Race or sex profiling is simply the use of race or sex as that estimator. Profiling represents mankind's attempt to cope with information cost. God would not have to profile, since God is all-knowing.

WILLIAMS: Achievement gap grows in U.S. schools

Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability.

WILLIAMS: Housing boom and bust

Government misdirection a subprime culprit

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Hot off the press is my colleague Thomas Sowell's 43rd book, "The Housing Boom and Bust." The book is an eye-opener for anyone interested in the truth about the collapse of the housing market, which played a major role in our financial-market crisis.

WILLIAMS: Nomenclature nonsense

Black-and-white notions of who we are limit our vision

Saturday, May 16, 2009

What to call black people has to be confusing to white people. Having been around for 73 years, I have been through a number of names.

WILLIAMS: Deceptive health battles

Programs are unsustainable in the long run

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Most Americans accept the continuing attack on tobacco companies and smokers, but how do they feel about the massive government deception?

WILLIAMS: A look at Sweden's way

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Government health care advocates once sang the praises of Britain's National Health Service (NHS). That's until its poor delivery of health care services became known.

WILLIAMS: Defining cowards

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009

Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations.

WILLIAMS: Pyramid of insecurity

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009

Let's face it: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

WILLIAMS: No free-ride Claus

Friday, Jan. 30, 2009

My George Mason University colleague Professor Richard Wagner wrote the following comments, which were published by Office of the House Republican Leader.

WILLIAMS: Inaugural protocol

Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

President Barack Obama was sworn into office placing his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible. That is the last Bible I would use to be sworn into office. You say, "Why? Didn't Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation free your ancestors?" It all depends where they were living. Let's examine the document's text to see why.