Away for the Weekend(!)
This should be dry and heady enough to tide you over… Edward Feser on the Aristotelian proof of God:
Dr Edward Feser – An Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God from Juan C. Pagan on Vimeo.
Worst Debate Ever
These are the CEDA winners for 2014. Too. Much. Stupid.
Socialism Causes Pollution
Thomas DiLorenzo explains: Corporations are often accused of despoiling the environment in their quest for profit. Free enterprise is supposedly incompatible with environmental preservation, so that government regulation is required. Such thinking is the basis for current proposals to expand environmental regulation greatly. So many new controls have been proposed and enacted that the late…
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Doublespeak?
Advice: Hemingway to Fitzgerald
Forget your personal tragedy… Key West 28 May 1934 Dear Scott: I liked it and I didn’t. It started off with that marvelous description of Sara and Gerald (goddamn it Dos took it with him so I can’t refer to it. So if I make any mistakes—). Then you started fooling with them, making them…
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Things from all over… 81.5% of Money Created through Quantitative Easing Is Sitting There Gathering Dust … Instead of Helping the Economy. and QE isn’t working!!! Mass shootings have an ever-clearer link, not to videogames or gun ownership, but to pharmaceutical drugs. Terrifying. Elizabeth Warren has no clue what she is meddling with, economically speaking.…
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Wiki Wednesday – 2+2=5
2+2=5: The phrase “two plus two equals five” (“2 + 2 = 5”) is a slogan used in many different forms of media, but more specifically in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one may be required to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in…
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Excellent video!:
Greenwald Interviewed by GQ
How much more is there to release—and what burden do you feel to get it out there? We published the first article [about the NSA collecting Verizon phone records] while I was in Hong Kong last June and won’t stop until we’re done. I think we will end the big stories in about three months…
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The Myth of the Rule of Law
Found a new goldmine of legal theory, in John Hasnas. Of particular interest is his article The Myth of the Rule of Law… Stop! Before reading this Article, please take the following quiz. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides, in part: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging…
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