Thursday, March 5
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Cheryl Cline is the guest editor today. (Guest editors do not approve the original columns.) |
"So to the extent that foreign central bankers are buying dollars for reserves, it means they all think the Feds have the biggest, baddest tax collection machine on the planet, and that Americans will continue indefinitely to work hard while suffering the loss of half of all we earn. To put that differently, they judge that nowhere more than here have otherwise intelligent humans been so fully hornswaggled by the myth of government." Column by Jim Davies.
"I had a choice: stay in school, or drop out and learn. The ironic choice that I faced tells something very important about the intentional design of the school system. I was trying not to let school interfere with my education." Column by new Root Striker Tristan Shaw.
Marines: Multiple Errors Caused San Diego Crash
Consider
what happens when civilian deaths are mere “collateral damage.”
Bush-Era Memos Saw Rights Limits in U.S. Terror War
Taking away your freedom is necessary to protect it.
Debunking
the idea that industrialization must be state-driven.
Why Liberals Should Support the Right to Armed Self-Defense
If
only to defend themselves against their worst nightmare:
a conservative on the rampage.
The Morality of Drunk and Drowsy Driving
People
oppose drunk-driving not because it is immoral, but because it is illegal.
Barriers to Effective Schooling
To
Will Wilkinson, one such barrier is “the desire of those with a stake in
government institutions to control the socialization of children.”
Gene Callahan on revising reality to fit models, instead of the other way around.
Venture Capitalists Reject Bailout: An Inspiring Dose of Economic Sanity
The
tech industry needs a lift on immigration limits, not government subsidies.
Hierarchy
can lead to groupthink.
Obama’s
new stimulus logo may be more than a mere symbol.
It would take almost a decade just to print the money for this administration’s financial commitments.
Retrospective on the 1948 Smashing of Hollywood
The
Supreme Court destroyed one of the beacons of American culture once; who’s
to say it won’t do it again?
Terrence
C. Watson on the tendency to believe the worst about one’s ideological
opponents.
Living
like Thoreau need not involve deprivation.
Mess O’ Potamia – The Iraq War Is Over
Jon
Stewart on Obama’s pretenses, and his curious resemblance to a previous
president.
Germaine
Greer thinks women don’t get enough practice being funny.
A
photo blog.