Fredrich Hayek on Socialism:A book you should read, Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, summed up in five minutes (embedding disallowed. Dang!). Walter E. Williams on the function of profits (integral to understanding why the bill passed two nights ago is such a bad plan): Sowell doesn’t think there is a disparity between women and men…
DetailsI have always thought there was a twist of cruelty in PETA’s absolutism somehow, and the news recently supported this. After $34 million, PETA killed off 2301 animals and saved 8. “Compassion killing”, of course… The torture of Christians isn’t totally over, and Agent Intellect excerpted a quite sad torture experience given to Christians in…
DetailsP.C. patrol: + Darkness increases dishonesty, who woulda thunk?: In several experiments, researchers found that light levels influence selfish behavior. People who were placed in a dimly lit room were significantly more likely to cheat than people placed in a well-lit room. Likewise, people who were asked to wear sunglasses were less generous in a…
DetailsI don’t think I did… And since YouTube threw off the TED video format, you don’t get a study. You get a story of a real badass, The White Death: Ensconced in the snow, his white camouflage suit rendering him invisible to the invading Soviet soldiers he stalked, Simo Häyhä steadied himself to fire. During…
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I will be giving further proof this week that you should be reading InsideCatholic articles as they are posted. Today’s selection is entitled When Is Stupidity a Sin? by Alice von Hildebrand (wife of Dietrich, before he died), where she hits on a few of the points Tom Sowell loves to make while furthering the…
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