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American Discord: Why Humans Need Hate Like Air
Michel Foucault writes, “A name makes reading too easy.” Foucault, a famous philosopher and activist during the latter part of the twentieth century, believed his celebrity made it impossible for...
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Is Mike Huckabee Right?
There seems to be a lot of outrage surrounding this comment by Mike Huckabee the other day. Huckabee notes on violence in the American school system: You can take away every gun in America and somebody...
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The “Fiscal Cliff”: What The Hell Is The Federal Government Doing?
The White House In 2011, the federal government spent $3.6 trillion. That’s $400 million an hour, every hour, every day of the week, every week of the year. The bulk of the spending, 56% of the federal...
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Parents of Children Massacred In Sandy Hook Take A Stand On Gun Laws
Last night the Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety held a hearing at the Connecticut State Capitol where the parents of children massacred in Sandy Hook took stands...
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The First Straightforward Explanation Of US Crime Stats?
The above video seems to offer a pretty realistic assessment of violence in America. The point? Popular discourse isn’t presenting us with the best data (and naturally inferences) about violence and...
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The Media Is A Gun And They're Going To Blow Your Brains Out
I normally don’t follow current events. I tend to agree with Marcel Proust’s character Charles Swann in Remembrance of Things Past, who said, rather elegantly and succinctly: The fault I find with our...
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For Smart People, The Shooting Of Trayvon Martin Explained
Watching the verdict of the Trayvon Martin case with a bunch of rich white people on Saturday night, I could only yawn a painful sigh of a statement, muttering underneath my breath: “Whatever happens,...
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Barack Obama Wants To Obliterate Young People From The Workforce
President Obama wants to raise the federal minimum pay for salaried executives from $24,000 to $52,000. His proposal is below. As of this writing, the video has only 12,000 views. Perhaps because it’s...
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Matt Drudge Is Right About His Taxes, And No One In The Media Understands
The media is a gun. And they’re going to blow your brains out. The Huffington Post (and Talking Points Memo) don’t understand taxes. This matters because the people who might be informing you about...
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