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The Education Bubble
Talk of the---and I mean the---education bubble is everywhere. But nowhere is it more succinctly or beautifully demonstrated than in a picture created by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise…
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New York’s Induced Terminations Of Pregnancy
New York City's Health Department (motto: It's for your own good!) released its annual birth and death statistics, and the internet is aflutter, particularly over the numbers on abortion. "Raw"…
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Works Of High Seriousness: Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill
Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order by Charles Hill What a stimulating journey through the greatest works of literature, interpreted with a mind towards statecraft. Hill wants us to…
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Do The Rich Pay Their Fair Share?
The answer depends on which country you live. In the United States, the rich not only pay their "fair" share, they pay more. Even stronger, wealthy American citizens pay more…
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Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation
Perhaps the most fantastical regulation to launch recently from the collective hive-mind of the federal bureaucracy is the one which administrates the very breath of life. Yes, the Environmental Protection…
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Murders In America’s 33 Largest Cities: Update, Did The Internet Cause Murder Rate To Drop?
Update: See below for crazy theory. Here are the number of murders and non-negligent manslaughters in cities with at least half a million citizens, from 1985 to 2009, the last…
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“I was all, like—awugh.”
I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…
I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse
Enough with the pitch count! It was 88 last pitch---and even with my limited mathematical ability I can figure out that the next must be 89. Keep quiet about on-base…
