Libertarians, Take Your Pick: U.S. or Singapore?
3rd December 2007
Read it. And take your pick. Not a libertarian? Fie upon you then.
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3rd December 2007
Read it. And take your pick. Not a libertarian? Fie upon you then.
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3rd December 2007
Read it. I would say your parents, but that’s just me.
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3rd December 2007
Read it. This comes recommended to me as the best review available — advice that is worth what you paid for it.
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1st December 2007
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30th November 2007
Read it. It has truly been too long.
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30th November 2007
Read it. Pretty embarassing when the French are more sensible than we are.
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29th November 2007
Read it. Not sure I’d be as willing as he is to give polemicists the benefit of the doubt with respect to these questions, but I’m naturally a cynical and suspicious personality.
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29th November 2007
Read it. George Will spanks some Democrats. Fun to watch.
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28th November 2007
Steve Sailer points out a good reason to have the death penalty.
Of course, those who maintain that the death penalty doesn’t provide any deterrent effect will deny this.
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28th November 2007
Read it. I am of two minds about this sort of thing. On the one hand, social pressure has for millenia been the way that what, for want of a better term, one might call “good manners” have been enforced. On the other, we often wind up in Romeo-and-Juliet situations that can be pretty tragic. I suspect that it will be a while before we work out a livable balance between these two concerns; I’m hoping that it will be sooner rather than later.
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27th November 2007
Read it. Steve Sailer talks about Shelby Steele talk about Barack Obama. Well, I guess you had to be there.
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27th November 2007
Read it. There’s still a long way to go.
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27th November 2007
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27th November 2007
Thomas Sowell points out some inconvenient truth.
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26th November 2007
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26th November 2007
Read it. Impossible to say, really.
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26th November 2007
Robert Novak pulls the trigger.
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25th November 2007
Read it. Well, maybe because Muslims (unlike Communists) are nutters? That’s just a theory, you understand.
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24th November 2007
Read it. I wonder whether that trick works on spam comments too?
Nobody told me, before I started this blog, that the chief expense is tracking down the people who put spam links in the comments and then paying someone to go break their fingers. It can add up.
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24th November 2007
Read it. And take it to heart.
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24th November 2007
Sometimes Steve Sailer comes up with some pretty scary stuff. Tell the truth: Would you want to breed from any of these people? I am not optimistic about our species.
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24th November 2007
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22nd November 2007
Read it. Hint: No.
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21st November 2007
John Stossel points out that Thanksgiving is about showing how socialism doesn’t work.
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20th November 2007
Read it. They might could.
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20th November 2007
Read it. Never had this problem with Western Electric.
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20th November 2007
Read it. Why must everyone pick on Shatner?
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20th November 2007
Rod Dreher has some inconvenient truth.
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20th November 2007
Thomas Sowell is always worth reading.
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18th November 2007
Read it. Giving New Zealand a run for its money.
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18th November 2007
Steve Sailer gets back to basics. As my old granny used to say, “Trash comes from trash.”
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17th November 2007
Read it. Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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16th November 2007
Read it. I wonder what it must be like to have a life that consists of one eternal anxiety attack.
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16th November 2007
Read it. Is bad grammar hazardous to your health?
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16th November 2007
Mickey Kaus is one of those rare people, a liberal with interesting ideas.
Some problems are loaf-splitting problems–funding for the arts, maybe, or roads. They’re easy to solve. But I’d argue that precisely because they’re easy to solve most of them have been solved already. The problems we’re left with are problems where one side or the other is willing to fight to the death to protect a core demand that must be denied to achieve a solution.
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16th November 2007
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16th November 2007
Mona Charen sums up what’s wrong with Ron Paul.
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15th November 2007
Read it. Just what we need….
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13th November 2007
David Friedman, a person smarter than you or I, has some advice.
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12th November 2007
Read it. Thank you for not using “disassociate”.
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11th November 2007
Arnold Kling looks around and sees a lot of discussion of IQ and genetics.
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11th November 2007
Read it. An interesting situation.
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10th November 2007
Read it. Once again, as he does so well, David Friedman comes up with a mind-bender.
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10th November 2007
Read it. You will be assimilated … resistance is futile….
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10th November 2007
You will remember (unless you went to a public school) that the Dark Ages were that period of European history where civilization was under attack from the pagan Vikings from the north, the pagan Magyars from the east, and the quasi-pagan Muslims from the south. But Christianity survived, and eventually flourished, and kicked their asses. The Vikings and Magyars got with the program and became Christian; the Muslims retreated into the barbarism whence they had sprung.
Perhaps it’s time for a little of that action yet again….
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9th November 2007
Steve Sailer is pretty much always worth reading.
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9th November 2007
Read it. This is what you get when economists look at marriage. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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8th November 2007
Read it. Makes you wonder whether there would be any story there if certain people weren’t blowing up other people.
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6th November 2007
Read it. Yeah, I was surprised too.
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