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The Test to Become a Citizen
Can you pass? For the answers, click here. 1. What are the colors of our flag? 2. How many stars are there on our flag? 3. What color are the stars on our flag? 4. What do the stars on the flag mean? 5. How many stripes are there on the flag? 6. What color…
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Logic, Skepticism, & Abortion
Peter Kreeft’s lectures are bar-none, the best Catholic commentaries on each of their topics out there. He is witty, intelligent, and encompassing. I believe most of them can be found on iTunes, or at PeterKreeft.com. I stumbled across a summary of the points of one of the lectures, called The Apple Argument Against Abortion, that…
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Another Administrative Agency’s Tactics Rendered Obsolete
The new TSA scanners, rumored to dose victims with abnormally high levels of radiation, were put in place to show the travelers who walk through them as completely naked. These measures have been advertised as protecting us from terrorists, with very little evidence of effectiveness. Just yesterday, a story broke in which a man was…
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Debt, Debt, Debt
There are very few cases in which being in debt is a good thing. This is especially true of depreciable assets, or those which lose value over time. There are some debts for which the benefits outweigh the cost (on appreciable assets, like your brain when you pay for schooling, for example). Today, two links…
DetailsDirty Terrorist Words
If you use the following words on a social networking site, big brother is watching you: Domestic Security Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness Mitigation Prevention Response Recovery Dirty bomb Domestic nuclear detection Emergency management Emergency response First responder Homeland…
DetailsServe and Protect?
More like “Abuse and Remain Unaccountable.” Police have become more and more insulated from the law, and a new double standard blooms. Where it used to be politicians who were exempt from the laws and policies they enact, police and other low-level government workers are being added to the protected and exploitative class. This video…
DetailsThe Irrationality of Politics
Your lecture of the week this week is Michael Huemer on the way in which thinking about politics makes us suddenly stupid: I can’t say I agree at the end there. When the entire media gives a very limited spectrum of acceptable opinion, it is probably the case that everyone is misinformed, not just one…
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Multiplier Effect THIS!
Study: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been wholly bad for the economy. Mainstream economics, that posits that for every government dollar spent the effect will be as if several dollars have been spent, cannot account for this study’s results. But common sense can. When you spend money and resources building a $2 million missile…
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