A word to non-libertarians

If you are not a libertarian (under my understanding of the concept), it means one of two things-It could mean that you are...

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Dodd Unveils Sweeping Financial Overhaul Bill

Chris Dodd introduced a sweeping financial regulation bill that creates no fewer than three new agencies to oversee the banking industry. Dodd’s bill creates...

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Good stuff! Bermudian prosecutor fined over Facebook postings

A prosecutor in Bermuda has been fined $1,000 for posting Facebook messages about testimony in a murder case while the trial was...

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Obama's bullshit at the Fort Hood memorial service

"We knew these men and women as soldiers and caregivers," President Obama told...

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Gorbachev: Take It From Me, Leave Afghanistan

Mikhail Gorbachev—the man who pulled the Soviet Union's troops out of Afghanistan after a decade of stalemate—says the US should...

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YaY! Korean Navies Attempt To Blow Each Other Up

A South Korean navy ship fired warning shots at a North Korean vessel early Tuesday off the countries’ disputed west coast; the North’s ship...

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PC owners caught with child porn loaded on their computers - by a computer virus

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector...

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Texas law lets parents view porn with children

A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a...

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Sarko Lied About Berlin Wall Memories

French President Nicolas Sarkozy rushed to Berlin 20 years ago to begin chipping away at the Berlin Wall just hours before it fell, he recalls on his...

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Idiots: Inside Pentagon's Far Out Acid Tests

Dropping acid to boost the Pentagon’s psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on...

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Disgraceful, Catholic girls' Mount Alvernia College, suspended schoolgirl for cancer head shave

The mother of a 15-year-old girl suspended from school for shaving her head to raise money for cancer charities says her leukemia-stricken husband...

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When Muslims in the West attack non-Muslims

When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.

The establishment - law enforcement, politicians, the media and the academy - stands on one side of this debate, insisting that some...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Big Brother is watching to make sure serfs register to vote

THE Premier will use the combined might of the state's electronic records to catch voters who fail to enrol to force an estimated...

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The Idiocy of 'Honor'

I read that America must find an “exit strategy” from Iraq that will bring “peace with honor.” My God. Honor? I’d rather have infected hemorrhoids. These at least are...

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OZschwitz: Financially irresponsible Rudd govt blows $454m on consultants

Despite talk of cutbacks in public service spending, the federal government has spent a near record $454 million on consultants in the past...

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OZschwitz museum recalls horrors of statist and religious orphanage 'care'

EIGHT words on an old, hand-painted sign in Bankstown's National Orphanage Museum poignantly captures eight decades of Australia's care for unwanted...

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Climate row hits boiling point and Senate leader Nick Minchin tells it like it is

He said man-made climate change and pollution-reducing schemes were a left-wing conspiracy. ''For the extreme left it provides the opportunity...

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The Fallacy of Equal Pay for Equal Work

We’ve all heard the phrase “equal pay for equal work.” Many of those who habitually repeat this mantra may not realize that it is simply a variation of the discredited...

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Good stuff: Former New Castle police chief indicted for theft

New Castle’s former police chief has been indicted by a grand jury for stealing approximately $8,000 from a food drive fund for roughly four years, according to indictments released...

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Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School?

BY now, most high school dress codes have just about done away with the guesswork.

Girls: no midriff-baring blouses...

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An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers? -- Yes, the bad ones

For decades the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been the subject of passionate debate. His critique of Western thought and technology has penetrated deeply into...

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Demented Paul Krugman: Paranoid GOP Could Make US 'Ungovernable'

The kind of paranoia that made last week's health care reform protesters wave signs showing corpses at Dachau is nothing new in right-wing American politics, but the fact that these people actually...

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Excellent: Supreme Court Won't Spare Beltway Sniper

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from John Allen Muhammad, also known as the Beltway sniper, clearing the way for his execution...

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News Corp. May Shield All Content From Google

News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch wants to put a permanent end to “parasite” Google’s “kleptomania” when it comes to content on his newspapers’ websites. Murdoch says..

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'Pre-born children's lives were in imminent danger,' Roeder says

The man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider has confessed to the killing and says he has...

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