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Apocalypse Not: The Legacy of Julian SimonBy Aaron Tao“The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and...
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Another attempt to whitewash Hitler's socialismComments on Musolff, Andreas. "Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic". New York, NY: Routledge, 2010There have been many...
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Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today?by Jeff JacobyWHEN GROVER CLEVELAND ran for president in 1884, he was endorsed by Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, which listed four reasons for...
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Why is the Diet of Worms not a diet of worms?Forgive the riddleThe Diet of Worms of 1521 was of course one of the major turning points in the development of Western civilization. It has nothing to do...
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An interesting email from Ezra Levant:Last week, the Sun News Network went off the air -- and along with it, my TV show. I lost my job.I'll be fine. But what about all the ideas we fought for? What...
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Back to the 1930sWorld War II was the most destructive war in history. What caused it?The panic from the ongoing and worldwide Depression in the 1930s had empowered extremist movements the world over....
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The latest Leftist scareAn NBER paper “Robots are us – Some Economics of Human Replacement” paints a grim picture of our robotic future, in which the robots undermine their customer base, making the...
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The perennial crisis in US/Israeli relationsWe are, again, in the midst of that periodic occurrence: a crisis in Israel/US relations. This one revolves around White House pique over Prime Minister...
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"The pirates of Penzance" as satireAnd some surprising political implicationsIf the above title sounds very much like the title for a Ph.D. dissertation I suppose my academic background is to blame for...
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"The pirates of Penzance" as satireAnd some surprising political implicationsIf the above title sounds very much like the title for a Ph.D. dissertation I suppose my academic background is to blame for...
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Muslim "lone wolves"I don't entirely agree with the above graphic. It is true that there has been something of an epidemic of terrorist attacks from Muslims acting alone or nearly alone recently -- in...
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More on the Islamic "lone wolves"The report below very much confirms what I said yesterdayThis summer, Thomas Mücke managed a coup: he dissuaded a young German from joining the Islamic State.The...
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CNN, DHS and SPLC's Blame-Righty Hit JobThe Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on "right-wing" terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the...
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Nutrition and IQOne of the oldest claims about low IQ by Leftists is that it's all due to poverty. Sound familiar? More specifically, they say that low IQ just reflects poor nutrition. Considering...
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Netanyahu to Congress: Deal with Iran paves way to bombIn his address to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the proposed nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran will lead...
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Iris pigmentationIris pigmentation sounds like an obscure area of scientific investigation, does it not? Among evolutionary biologists it is an obscure area of scientific investigation but there is...
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Leftists don't understand muchLeftists are people who know and understand a lot less than they think they do. The classical example of that is of course in economics. Even when they gained unfettered...
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Obama's Canadian predecessor: Pierre Trudeau showed how destructive Leftist leaders can beDavid FrumCanada today is a very successful country. It has suffered less from the global economic crisis than...
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Governments use fear to sabotage libertiesI have always wondered why people seem so impressed by the line "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". It has always seemed to me to be both glib...
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IntellectualsWhy are there few conservative intellectuals? I guess George Will and the late Bill Buckley qualify but that's about it, as far as I can see. Thomas Sowell is a great treasure that we...
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