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Saying One Thing and Doing the Opposite — Isn’t That Called Hypocrisy?

Eric Fry seems to think that some billionaires should come with warning labels: [Warren] B...

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Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story — And in Some Cases, None of It

From a right-of-center perspective, Tom Blumer examines one afternoon's worth of electroni...

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As the State Enlarges, Liberty Contracts — Albert Jay Nock’s ‘Our Enemy, the State’

Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) was a highly influential public intellectual of the pre-World...

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Don’t Blame ERB If ‘John Carter’ Is a Flop

Rick Moran surveys various media pundits on why Edgar Rice Burroughs's sure fire hit has g...

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Affirmative Action — When Helping Ends Up Hurting

Abraham Miller thinks that federally-mandated affirmative action policies almost inevitabl...

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When Privacy Is Abolished, What’s a Murderer to Do?

For better or worse, from childhood most of us are taught that God is always watching us �...

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“Propaganda Time” — The President in the Textbooks

Mary Grabar, an English instructor, limns the political hagiography that masquerades as in...

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Freedom of Religion for Everyone — Well, Almost Everyone

David Coppedge thinks his religious orientation resulted in his being fired from a governm...

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Victimhood Mentality Prevails at USDA

The Inspector General (IG) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recentl...

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John Updike on His Signal Failure to Become the Next Erle Stanley Gardner or P. G. Wodehouse

Curt Evans has recently posted on his The Passing Tramp weblog about some of John Updike's...

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A Contemporary Reaction to ‘The Time Machine’

The reviewer, Richard Holt Hutton (1826-97), according to Wikipedia, was the son of a Unit...

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“De-development”: A Plan, Not a Stutter

Were you duped into buying a car because it was advertised as being big, powerful, or sexy...

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Heartland’s Big Money Threat to Climate Research

Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That confesses to "a change of heart": I’ve been sent som...

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Sin Can Be Therapeutic and Socially Beneficial, Says a Psychologist

"Sin. Sin. Sin. You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition. You're all goin' to th...

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Do Laughing Gorillas, Chuckling Parrots, and Giggling Rats Prove Human Evolution?

Even when they're dealing with LIVING animals, the evolutionary mindset is never far from ...

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If You Really Want to Start a Fight…

For those of you who insist on living dangerously, just do what these people did (and use ...

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Can “The World’s Richest Useful Idiot” End Poverty Worldwide?

When the Beatles sang about how money can't buy you love, they were only half right; it ca...

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Liberal Bias in the Media-Science Establishment Complex

"Incredible as it sounds," reports CEH with tongue slightly in cheek, "the science news me...

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A New Wrinkle: “Muslim-friendly Bibles”

Joel Richardson, at WND, reports on . . . a major controversy developing as the latest alt...

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“Mathematics Can Be Applied to All Areas of Life” — Not So, Says Murray Rothbard

In his introduction to the revised edition of Man, Economy, and State, Rothbard touches on...

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Book Review: ‘Long Way Down’

Sam Mackenzie lives on his boat in a Miami Beach marina; he's never formally identified as...

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Pulped! — Reading Just for the Fun of It

Hannah Sternberg, at PJ Media, thinks it's pointless to assign too much significance to ev...

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In the Beginning, There Was Nothing — and Then It Exploded …

Does cosmology rule out God — or at least render Him superfluous? Lawrence Krauss thinks...

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A Megadownload

First and Fourth Amendment rights continue to suffer serial battery at the hands of those ...

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Unintended Consequences Abundantly Flow from the 16th Amendment

"The Sixteenth Amendment has widened the area of government power, and as a consequence ha...

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The Cultural Value of Reading

Victor Davis Hanson defends good old-fashioned reading, a process that serves as a conveyo...

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President Invents New Kind of Job

PJ Media blogger Zombie says there just might be a new thing under the sun: In my admitted...

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Dim Bulbs

If, like our president, you feel virtuous paying more for energy, then you'll love this: A...

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Book Review: ‘The Best of Ellery Queen’

The Best of Ellery Queen: Four Decades of Stories from the Mystery Masters. Edited by Fran...

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Book Review: ‘The Spotted Cat’

Christianna Brand's Inspector Cockrill appeared in almost a score of novels, short stories...

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Getting Old Can Have Its Compensations … I Think

Here are 19 reasons why being over 60 isn't all bad: 1. Kidnappers are not very intereste...

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The Little People Who Weren’t There

. . . and they weren't there again today. It's called the Principle of Mediocrity: The ...

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Would You Push the Red Button?

It's not just the economy, stupid, it's the culture: We are experiencing an ongoing financ...