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Human Ingenuity: The Real Renewable Resource

c a. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 8:51 pm
A recent advertising campaign by the natural gas industry lobby, America's Natural Gas Alliance, states (paraphrasing), "we have a 100 year supply of natural gas and it's growing all the time...
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Charting Socialism

c a. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 7:59 am
Via Not-PC, I bring you a fascinating chart of the evolution of socialist strategies from Marx to the postmoderns. This image comes from the book Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks (note: I ha...
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The Negation of Freedom

c a. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 6:53 am
We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democra...
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Pelosidactyl

c a. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:48 am
Continuing my walk down memory lane (see previous post), I was reminded of some Photoshoppery I made in November 2006, right before Nancy Pelosi was nominated as Speaker of the House. A recent post b...
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The Months Seem Like Years

c a. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 6:58 am
Just 15 short months ago America was gearing up for a potentially watershed presidential election, and I was blogging furiously about the problems with both candidates. This morning I happened to che...
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The Wrong Questions

c a. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 3:50 pm
Can bomb attacks and hit squads against real or presumed terrorists bring about progress in the Middle East? Is it true that Arabs and Israelis only understand the language of violence, as many in Tel...
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War in Art

c a. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 1:57 pm
The mention of "Soviet art" conjures striking communist propaganda, but as Billy Beck notes in reference to a gallery of Soviet-era paintings of WWII, Russians--Not Soviets That's what I see in th...
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Charity in a Free Society

c a. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 7:25 am
From an uncharacteristically consistent, fundamentally pro-individual rights standpoint, two authors discuss charity at the American Thinker. (I say uncharacteristically because the publication often ...
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"This fire rates more than one alarm..."

c a. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 11:52 am
Gus Van Horn discusses government corruption scandals, and hits on the much more fundamental issue of it all -- one that people must keep in mind when parsing such stories from the media:"I find that ...
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Venn Jesus

c a. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:59 am
I'm not sure to whom this should be attributed as I can't find the originator of the image, but this Venn diagram perfectly follows the theme of my last few days considering my last post, Hall...
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The Essence of the Thing

c a. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 7:10 am
It's of no special import to hear another Catholic (or any Christian) decrying the unholiness and selfishness of homosexuality. The arguments against it and gay marriage are as common as they are...
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Objectivist Roundup #118

c a. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 8:22 am
Welcome to the October 15, 2009 edition of the Objectivist Roundup, your weekly dose of intellectual fuel and ammunition. This roundup features posts by blog authors who are students and advocates of...
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Stop Thinking You're So Great

c a. posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 7:43 am
If you've wondered what could have prompted Obama's worldwide apology tour, or gave the Nobel Committee impetus to award him the Prize, look no further than this Boston Globe op-ed: One nation...
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How Not to Defend Individual Rights

c a. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 12:37 pm
I got my hopes up with this one. In Tibor Machan's column in the Yuma Sun, Foundation of rights continues to be questioned, he identifies a key problem. He covers some of the arguments on both s...
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Apologizer-in-Chief

c a. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 2:14 pm
Nile Gardner explains why President Obama got such a nice reception at the UN:It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits the president at Turtle Bay. Obama’s popularity at the UN boils d...
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Deval Patrick's Ideas: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America

c a. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 8:20 am
The Wall St. Journal gave a national platform to the governor of Massachusetts to shill his bad ideas in support of Obama's socialized medicine. The only grain of truth I found was in the first pa...
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Objectivist Roundup #113

c a. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 9:29 am
Welcome to the September 10, 2009 edition of the Objectivist Roundup, your weekly dose of intellectual fuel and ammunition. This roundup features posts by blog authors who are students and advocates ...
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Van Jones: Plucking the Leaves but Leaving the Roots

c a. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 7:35 am
I recall reading well over a year go about a guy from California who was spearheading the "Green Collar Economy." It was a popular new catchphrase and I believe I heard about it first either on NPR o...
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First Day of School

c a. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 12:44 pm
Wednesday was the first day of public school for my 5 1/2 year old daughter. Her mother and I drove her to the little elementary school just 3/4 mi. from our house, and walked into the kindergarten c...
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The Old Git Died While I Was Out

c a. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 11:55 am
I had plans to write during my vacation, but the pull of perfect weather, sandy beaches, the pool, and fun with family and friends was too much to resist. And while I was out of blogging action, that...
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My Favorite Teacher's Failure as Object Lesson on the Importance of Learning History Properly

c a. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 12:50 pm
I can distinctly remember the sense of doom I felt when I drew the topic for my research paper/presentation out of the hat. It was my senior year in high school in my favorite class with my favorite ...
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The "Public Option" and Education (Live Oaks)

c a. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 10:40 am
Check out The "Public Option" and Education at Live Oaks. Brian Phillips offers a great analysis of the proposed health care "reform" by drawing parallels to government schools, while stressing the i...
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Australia Defeats Cap-and-Trade

c a. posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 2:55 pm

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Happer Testimony on Climate Change

c a. posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 1:12 pm
William Happer, distinguished Princeton physics professor and former director of energy research at D.O.E. (apparently fired by Gore for not going along with politicized science), testified before a S...
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Tax Withholding is the Threat Here?

c a. posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 5:07 am
In the WSJ today, Charles Murray comes out strongly, forcefully, against taxes. Wait, I mean against tax withholding. But first, he sets the stage, listing the dire threat he sees:America is suppose...
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Objectivist Roundup #109

c a. posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 9:24 am
Welcome to the August 13, 2009 edition of the Objectivist Roundup, your weekly dose of intellectual fuel and ammunition. This roundup features posts by blog authors who are students and advocates of ...
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Papal Reign, Papal Reign

c a. posted an article on - Aug 11, 2009, 7:47 am
While listening again to the recorded lectures from Scott Powell's European history course on the way into work this morning, I heard something that made me burst into song and then into laughter....
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Boaz: Calling for Limited Government is Not Racist

c a. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2009, 3:05 pm
I read this execrable NYT op-ed by Paul Krugman today and just didn't have the stamina to tackle it; sometimes it's just too much, ya know? Luckily, David Boaz at CATO did. He starts off nai...
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A Spark in Dry Tinder

c a. posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 8:09 pm
Last night I had a 20 minute conversation with my 5 1/2 yr old daughter as I was tucking her in. We heard a firecracker go off somewhere in the valley and she asked what it was. "Some fireworks," I ...
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Hiroshima as Rorschach Test

c a. posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 9:50 am
Required reading in high school twenty years ago was the book Hiroshima by John Hersey. I remember being appalled at the graphic scenes of death and destruction. And because I also grew up in the er...
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