Links for 2011-04-19 [del.icio.us]

• The Hispanic Century? | Miller-McCune | Miller-McCune
  As their average education level, income, age and familiarity with the political process increase over time, Hispanics can be expected to enter the active electorate in far higher numbers than they have to date. Current conditions — the worst economic dislocation since the Great Depression combined with fierce controversy over an issue of central concern to Hispanics, immigration — provide the salient issues that could move Hispanics to connect deeply with one party or the other. The party that best handles those issues of high importance to Hispanics, our research strongly suggests, could be the beneficiary of a shift in turnout and partisan attachment that alters the balance of political power in America not just for the next presidential or midterm election but for decades.
• Married, With Assets – Forbes.com
  The estate tax overhaul President Obama signed in December liberates many other well-off couples to follow the Keshens’ lead and dispense with costly, cumbersome trusts–assuming they are in stable first marriages and trust each other to manage their joint wealth. Here’s what married folks need to know and do now.
• Trulia – Real Estate, Homes for Sale, Sold Properties, Apartments for Rent
  Along with Zillow.com, another great real estate source.
• Consumer Access
  real Estate Agent research.
• Super-Economy: The rich in Europe are poor.
  The benefits of the rich, and why they too have a better standard of living in the USA than Europe.
• Inductivist: Social class and autism
  The researchers conclude that the epidemic is the result of a greater probability of being diagnosed, and that until recently, diagnosis depended heavily on having money and living in better-off communities where the focus on autism began. Social class factors have been more important for less severe cases of autism where diagnosis was less obvious.
• Markets and the Common Good – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic
  This is an argument to which the left-wing has a great deal of recourse whenever anyone suggests that people have a right to keep what they earn from voluntary transactions. You can only make money in the context of society, and so society has a right to regulate your transactions, and seize the proceeds, in any way that society sees fit. And yet, the argument applies just as well to our sex lives or our political beliefs: they take place in the context of all sorts of government protections, from rape prosecutions to whistleblower laws. Without markets and the government, the “anything between two consenting adults” morality to which the majority of the elite subscribes would be impossible; the closest substitute for these things is family, and families have a very clear, deep, and persistent interest in regulating the sexual behavior of their members. Does this mean that the government may properly restrict our sexual behavior to that of which a majority of our neighbors approve?
• democracyarsenal.org: Welfare: Bad For America, Good For Europe?
  But why should they? After all, European governments know they can rely on US military might and taxpayer dollars to subsidize their security needs and prevent them from actually investing in a more robust security apparatus. And when European leaders like Sarkozy decide to talk tough they can count on America to provide the military muscle to back up their words – as has been the case with Libya.The bottom line is that as long as the United States continues to feel that it has an obligation to underwrite European security needs . . . it will continue to underwrite European security needs. And European countries will continue to free ride off of US security guarantees and not develop the “right equipment” and strategy to protect and further their own interests. In the world’s most most stable and prosperous region we have created a bizarre situation where US resources and arms are underpinning a security structure that could quite easily be taken over by the inhabitants of that region!

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