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A ‘Titanic’ Auction

CNS News reports: The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is...

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The Quotable Bastiat and Burke (Plus One Interloper)

Let's allow Claude Frederic Bastiat to speak first. When someone says, "There ought to be...

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Pray for More Global Warming — It’s a ‘Crisis’ We Can Live With

The NIPCC informs us of a report that, if the data are accurate, suggests that: "... massi...

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Forgotten Lore: “The Lemon Drop Kid”

Damon Runyon used to be a household name. He was famous for two reasons: his reportage, of...

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R.I.P, C.S. — We Hardly Knew Ye

EULOGY FOR THE LATE MR. COMMON SENSE AS DELIVERED BY HIS COUSIN, MR. INTELLECT Today we ...

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What Do Golf Balls and Shark Skin Have in Common?

The similarities could result in 200-knot submarines that can turn on a dime. The secret l...

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The Mahdi and the Bomb

Is this officer overstating the case? The single greatest threat to America’s national s...

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Bugged!

Surveillance drones and other potential offenders against personal privacy and the 4th Ame...

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Prisoners of an Unnecessary Paradox — Left-Right Political Bipolarity As a “Device of Ambidextrous Politics”

Sometimes stereotypes become a substitute reality. Take "conservatism," for instance: Cons...

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‘Hope and Change’ Is in the Grand Tradition of . . . John Stuart Mill?

Roger Kimball has a think piece on PJ Media that calls into question some of the foundatio...

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A Sign of the Times

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The Increasing Irrelevancy of Degrees in English — Or, An Object Lesson in Shooting Yourself in the Foot

The Modern Language Association (MLA) shows signs of being . . . in a state of panic over ...

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What’s Wrong with Higher Education?

Plenty: Since World War II, a college degree was rightly seen as the key to middle class u...

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Is This the Way the World Actually Works?

Can it really be this simple? . . . what’s going on in the USA? Alas, the US economy is ...

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Getting ‘Expelled’

All atheists aren't Darwinists, but nearly all Darwinists are atheists. Why? Ben Stein'...

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Get ’em While They’re Hot — You Have a Month and a Half Left to Buy 100-Watt Edison Light Bulbs

Insanity isn't just inheritable. Judging from what's happening with America's energy polic...

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We’re All Responsible for This Economic Mess — And Other Convenient Lies We Like to Tell Ourselves

It's true: for a con game to work, it does take two — the sharper and a willing gull —...

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Does Government Have the Right to Issue Licenses … for Anything?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, ll. ...

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Bureaucracy Strikes Again — A Tax on Christmas Trees

Christmas tree sellers who sell more than 500 trees annually must pay it to the Federal Go...

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Value Inversions

   

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The Next ‘Blade Runner’ — Prequel, Sequel, or Remake?

Assuming it gets made: The visuals and sound design in Blade Runner are simply arresting. ...

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Kinsey Covers for Deviant Sex

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform. — Attributed to Alfred Kins...

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Minatory Lessons from the Republic of South Africa

Like South Africa, America is destined to degenerate into a dominant-party state. — Ilan...

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The Unsubtle Gay Subtext of the X-Men Movies

“If it weren’t for gays, honey, there wouldn’t be a Hollywood.” — Attributed to ...

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Why Does Everybody Hate Capitalism?

We see no reason to mitigate the instability of free markets. That’s what makes them so ...

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Germans Discover Dubious ‘Beauties’ of Going Green—A Glimpse of America’s Future?

Subsidies for the solar panel and windmill industry have already had a lasting aesthetic e...

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Just in Time for Trick-or-Treat — Bogus Alarmism Over World Population

Seven billion people. So what? The environmentalist worldview is haunted by the terrifying...

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The Archbishop of Sydney Gets It — Man-Made “Global Warming” Is Yet to Be Proven

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized b...

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Lincoln’s, FDR’s Remarkably Similar Paths to War

According to John V. Denson, Honest Abe and FDR behaved much like each other in the interv...

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Finally! Heat Wave Explained

Who says scientists aren't on top of things? This article clears up a long-standing myster...

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What Have Taxes Done for You?

Far less than what they've done TO you: Income taxation inaugurates a permanent war betwee...

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It Could Be Verse

. . . but on the other hand . . . Have you ever been stuck in one of those interminable m...

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Agenda 21 — We’ll See Who’s Master Here

Gradually, almost imperceptibly, the roles of America's citizens and their government have...