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Keeping It Real: A Review of Killing Cool
Harmless fantasy has its place, but a life of fantasy creates a multitude of problems.
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Duke University Rape Case
Nothing should be surprising any more about the Duke University rape case. Still, it is a little staggering that, after all these months, District Attorney Mike Nifong has still not interviewed either the accuser or the accused. Rape is a felony with serious…
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Politics >
Replace Social Security Ponzi Schemes with Private Savings Accounts
Social Security is running out of money. You may not believe that, but it’s a fact. That FICA money taken from your paycheck was not saved for you in a “trust fund.” Politicians misled us. They spent every penny the moment it came in. This started as…
The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
Did J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie really make their fortunes as “Robber Barons” exploiting the common man? Was the Great Depression really caused by greedy businessmen and investors? Did the socialist Soviet Union actually surpass…
Rosa Parks: Pursuit of Profit vs. Racism
The death of Rosa Parks has reminded us of her place in history, as the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, in accordance with the Jim Crow laws of Alabama, became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and…
Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Chapter 2, Part 3 of 3)
Adapted from Chapter 2 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. According to Hume, if you see a man raping a woman, you cannot say that what you are witnessing is factually immoral; you cannot say that as a matter of…
Stocks Will Shine Again
Two weeks ago I suggested that investors sell Exxon Mobil and use the proceeds to buy Wal-Mart Stores. If you’d made the trade that day, then you’d be ahead 11% overall — Wal-Mart is up 3.6%, and Exxon Mobil is down 7.4%. I imagine most people…
Random Thoughts: October 2005
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. We are so easily deceived that many people think that the Senate Judiciary Committee is acting nicely if the Senators wear a genial…
World >
An Open Letter On Revolution in Iran
The Internet is a powerful tool for international understanding. This writer, through a chain of various links, found the web log of an anonymous Iranian girl. She had quoted the parts of President Bush’s State of the Union speech on Iran. “Different…
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Markets: Business & Economics >
Making a Financial Choice: More Capital or More Government Control
The Federal Reserve’s monetary and regulatory policies were major contributors to the 2007-2009 Great Recession.
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Science & Technology >
Reason vs Faith: Julian Simon vs Paul Ehrlich
In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul…
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