Tuesday, April 7

A Measure of Freedom

"Are we more free today, than our forebears were in the 1900s? How can we tell? Does it matter? "  Column by Jim Davies. 

Inflation: A Personal Narrative

Column by Robert Klassen.

Estimated U.S. Taxpayer Cost for Bailout Jumps

“The additional cost, which applies to TARP spending for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, was included in the CBO's March projection of a $1.8 trillion deficit for fiscal 2009, which ends September 30.” 

DARE and Back Again

Will Grigg on the government school’s DARE program.

From Twin Towers to Twin Camelots

“Obama’s brisk sentences commit thousands of fresh US troops to overwhelm the Taliban, oblivious of the judgment of sensible observers that it’s precisely the presence of foreign troops that prompts Pashtuns to support the Taliban and join their ranks.”

Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

“ Afghanistan ’s women are, apparently, the latest casualty of the Obama administration’s tilt toward realpolitik: ignore human rights violations—whether they’re in China or Russia or in the quiet misery of an Afghan villager’s home—in pursuit of larger foreign policy goals.”

Democrats and War Escalation

Anti-War Radio: James Bovard

Bovard is interviewed on the AmeriCorps.

How America Was Sold on World War

9 Corporate Attempts At 'Edgy' That Failed (Hilariously)

Rusty Bombs Lay Under Family's Home for 20 Years

“The family, who live in Malipo town, had long wondered why magnets were so strongly attracted to an area under their hallway, reports the Chuncheng Evening Post.”

Virus Battery Could 'Power Cars'

“Researchers constructed a lithium-ion battery, similar to those used in millions of devices, but one which uses genetically engineered viruses to create the negatively charged anode and positively charged cathode.”

Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics

Drug-Free Therapy Could Erase Memories

Government Launches New ‘Print Your Own Money’ Website

Satire.

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