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March 2008

DailyKos: DHS wants new torture technology

If I ever want something original to blog about, all I have to do is go to DailyKos and click...

The Ron Paul/Machiavelli Link

In the writings published under Ron Paul's name (you have to write this way, when referring to Ron Paul, because...

CFLs

From a comment on Lileks' (other) blog: My husband, unbeknownst to me, picked up some flourescent bulbs and installed them...

Congressional Democrats Assisting FARC

A few days ago we learned that leftist narcoterrorist group FARC was being paid by Hugo Chavez to undermine Columbia's...

Hillary Clinton: Now a Member of the Right Wing!

Hillary Clinton originated the term "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" to explain the origins of the belief that her husband had...

Planned Parenthood and Big Government

CitizenLink.com: Amid high-profile criminal investigations, Planned Parenthood has announced plans to spend $10 million this election cycle to ensure it...

UK Schools to Focus on Kids' "Happiness"

Ever see a little child fall down? Ever notice the huge difference in ensuing mood depending on the parents' reaction?...

Confused or Sardonic?

Probably both, I suspect. Seven percent of atheists think Jesus is the Son of God...

Religion and the Relative Intelligence of Scientists

A recent study discovered that belief in God among academics, by discipline, was ordered about like this: (Most Atheistic) Biology...

David Mamet's Political Awakening

In The Village Voice, to their credit: I found not only that I didn't trust the current government (that, to...

Eliot Spitzer: Capitalism + Amorality = Despotism

To repeat my mantra for the last year, I'm not a libertarian, I'm a conservative. I believe a small, limited...

Chavez and FARC

Hugo "Not-A-Dictator" Chavez has been keeping (and lavishly funding) some fairly tawdry company as of late. First reports of the...

Dr. Evil's Economics

From Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery: Dr. Evil: Here's the plan. We get the warhead, and we hold the...

Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong's "Reality-Based" Economics

Dr. Paul Krugman is a respected professor of economics -- one who has a column my country's most prestigious newspaper....

Liberal Fascism at Barnes & Noble

You can read that both ways, really. I've been hearing that Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism has now reached #1 on...

Racism and Collectivism

I was talking to a friend a work recently, and he implied that southern racists all switched parties and became...

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