Blog Reactivated!

I am reactivating this blog to engage in a discussion with JR. Reliapundit has asked us to take it off The Astute Bloggers, since he does not feel the subject falls within that blog's areas. I am going to re-post my first reply to JR here first, and then I will reply to his latest installment.

You can find his initial discussion here, his second installment here, his third installment (a reply to my comments) here, and a synoptic version here.