Thursday, January 1

 

Cheryl Cline is the guest editor today.

 

Problem Solving 101

"It is obvious that the statist method requires the least amount of intelligence and effort, but repeating that process doesn’t bring one any closer to a credible solution.  Statist solutions typically will make any problem worse and spread it around to more people."  Column by Mark Davis.

 

Bush Ripped by RNC for Socialist Policies

 

The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2008 

 

Gramsci Week, #3 - Best Essays of 2005: Roger Kimball

"Kimball's 2005 piece in the New Criterion has been previously posted here, but it deserves a second go-round, if not a third. The author of 'Tenured Radicals' goes beyond the subject of academia in this essay which succinctly exposes the tactics and strategies of the now-greying but still revolutionary 60s radicals."

 

An Atheist Advocates Christianity for Africa

Could Christianity bring individualism to a collectivist Africa ?

 

Dismantling a ‘Libertarian’ Argument for Restricting Immigration

"The body of classical liberal and libertarian philosophy is full of people who espouse laissez-faire positions on the movements of goods and investment across borders, then completely reverse this position when it comes to the free movement of people."

 

Philosophy and Pragmatism

"I can conceive of institutions that solve the public goods problem of basic research that are better than NASA, NOAA, NSF, and any other government science funding agency. I am even more confident that better institutional solutions than I can conceive could exist. But those institutions do not exist today."

 

Blowing Smoke on State Climate Action Plans

 

The Revolting Cuban Revolution Turns 50

 

The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's #1 Sponsor of World Terrorism

"In a 'manual' which is officially to be released only to 'students from foreign countries on a case-by-case basis only', the US Army outlines a program of what it now calls 'irregular warfare', in fact US state sponsored terrorism, insurgency, and PSYOPS."

 

How Come Israelis Can Criticize Israel, But Americans Can't?

"In America , people are lambasted for even raising the issue of whether Israel could possibly do anything wrong."

 

Proposition 8: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Poll

 

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