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The latest rap by Mos Def ? Or government intervention into my dog's life?
An oxymoron (i.e. "sharply dull" in Greek) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors to puns such as “extremely average” to “jumbo shrimp”, to the “same differen
The truth is that "healthcare reform" has been going on for many years and our present-day "public option" has slowly lead to the erosion of individual choice and depreciation of care due to government intervention and not private industry.
This Halloween evening, you might want to tune in for a very unusual radio broadcast.
Why does anyone still think that "government" can be a force for justice? And why are they still surprised when it's not?
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Each day, American drivers and machinery kill 1.0 million vertebrates, known as road kill, on highways throughout the nation. About every 10 seconds some little critter, trying to live his/her life, scurries across the road into the jaws of your ti
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What happens when a highly educated society, culture and people such as the United States degrades or devolves its educational systems toward illiteracy and loss of personal accountability?
Questioning the TSA is fun !
Do advocates really want to threaten violence against people who slow the movement of electrons through wires and computers they own?
Below is an exchange I recently had with a parent who took exception to a blurb of mine in the Arizona Republic about public education.
Farm Wars
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If you were made Czar of Food Production, what would you do?
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As an educator in Colorado through the 70s, 80s and 90s, I watched academic standards and expectations drop like a brick in a bucket of water, like a jet fighter plane auguring into the ground, like water cascading over Niagara Falls.
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When you multiply 100 million times 12.6 acres of land, that equals the destruction of 1.26 billion acres of wilderness.
...debate over who owns your body and can decide what repairs it receives, the media and the public have overlooked the fact that the U.S. House of Representatives has already ruled in H.R. 2454 that the state owns your house and can decide what repa
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Envision detectives arresting more child predators as they abandon the time spent arresting someone selling pot to an adult. All this becomes possible, when America abandons the prohibition approach to marijuana.”
Received in an e-mail and HAD to send it along!
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During the Bolshevik Revolution that led to communist Russia, Comrade Vladimir Lenin said, “Sell the capitalists enough rope and they will hang themselves!”
One aspect of debate that was not addressed, nor is it very often, is the thesis that the state is illegitimate; therefore, not competent to resolve any market issue, including health care.
Even though the collectivists constantly lose the debate over whether socialism "works," that is not the question that matters.
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Lars Larson will ask Wooldridge about: 1. Environmental ramifications—acidified oceans, species die off, fisheries 2. Water shortages—California’s future with 20 million people added 3. Social implications—Crowding, gridlock, air pollu
During the Constitutional Convention, from May to September 1787, delegates from the colonies were to gather together for the express purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation to form a "more perfect union"...
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
“…people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States."
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Howard and I pedaled through the last month of a coast-to-coast touring adventure. Our legs glistened with sweat as our muscles labored under the constant down-stroke on the pedals. A cop passed us, smiling, but then turned around!
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67 percent of liberals felt the level of population growth caused by immigration negatively impacts the quality of life in the U.S.
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Wild adventure tale of life and death in Alaska: “The hard life that never knows harness; The wilds where the caribou call; The freshness, the freedom, the farness--Oh God! How I'm stuck on it all."
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Add more lanes to Los Angeles’ freeways to solve gridlock? That’s like a four hundred pound man facing a heart attack—unbuckling his belt to allow more room for his bulging belly. That’s a tragic choice!