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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Poetic justice: 2 US Pilots Die in Iraq Chopper Crash

A chopper's "hard landing" in Salahuddin province north of Baghdad took the lives of two US pilots yesterday, bringing the total count of Americans killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 to at least...

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Idiotic Brazilian University: Student Expelled for Wearing Minidress

A 20-year-old woman was expelled from a Brazilian university and accused of violating "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality" after wearing...

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Barbaric China Executes 9 Over Uighur Riots

Nine people convicted of murder and arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify...

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Colorado ski town legalizes pot

DENVER — The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana.

Early returns Tuesday night showed the proposal winning...

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Economic Fury Is the New Culture War

Deficits were the rallying cry for yesterday's winners

"Conservatives have supposedly gotten their groove back," Peter Beinart writes about the results of yesterday's state races, "but it's not the same old...

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Funny: Breathalyzer-costumed man accused of drunk driving

A US man dressed as a breathalyser test for Halloween found himself blowing into one after police stopped him for allegedly driving the wrong way without headlights on...

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YaY! Incompetent OZschwitz poLICEman shoots himself while making arrest

A policeman accidentally shot himself in the leg while...

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Chinaschwitz: Prostitute bust-- Rage over woman dragged by hair by oppressive, barbarian cop

A photo showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the internet, where it has been...

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Italy convicts 23 criminal CIA agents in kidnapping trial

An Italian judge Wednesday convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.

The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Drooling, lower-lip slurping, PM Rudd's totalitarian threat of bureaucratism

Two Qantas pilots have been suspended after they came close to landing a Boeing 767 at Sydney Airport without lowering its wheels, which was rather forgetful...

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OZschwitz: Teaching the thieving Tax Office a lesson

UNIVERSITY undergraduates will be able to claim educational expenses as a tax deduction after a former student had a landmark win against the....

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YaY! Uni student hurls boot at lowlife ex-prime minister Howard

A heckler has thrown a Doc Marten boot at former prime minister John Howard during a speech at Cambridge University.

Mr Howard was preparing to speak to an audience of...

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YaY! OZschwitz lets 300,000 parking offenders off the hook

IF YOU have been fretting about that overdue parking fine from a few years back, you are off the hook. The State Government has decided to write off more than...

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Violent Fijian military detains academic

A WIDELY respected academic from the Australian National University has been detained by the Fijian military as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

Professor Brij Lal is believed to have been picked up by...

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The New Rules of Angel Investing: Gutless Wimp Investing

Angels still have wings, but they aren’t flying quite so high.

The rules of the game of angel investing have changed in...

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Good place to grow dope

They flock to Hayfork to bask in the sunny, cool climate and the permissive rules on medical pot farming and....

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How to raise taxes without calling it taxes: Call it a loan--Though it's really a fraud

The amount goes up 10% on Sunday as Sacramento borrows from taxpayers. Technically, it's not an income tax increase: You'll get the money...

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"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.*" (*"Negative racial and religious stereotyping" not included)

In his eagerness to please international opinion, President Obama has taken a small but significant step toward censoring free speech.

In my view, Obama should not take even a small step down the road toward...

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Madoff dismisses SEC bumblers who didn't know Accounting 101

Bernie Madoff slagged the SEC in a jailhouse interview released late yesterday, dismissing a compliance examiner looking into his firm in 2006 as a "blowhard" who "talked tough, but...

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Bloodsucking Statist Leeches: State Death Taxes Are the Latest Worry

With the federal estate tax disappearing for most people, state death taxes have emerged as a surprise new worry.

This year, the federal exemption rose to...

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Idiots: Boulder Cops Nix Naked Halloween Streak

Wacky local tradition draws big crowds, annoys authorities

Killjoy cops in Boulder, Colo., plan to shut down the town's...

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Funny: GOP States Buy More Porn

Church-going Republicans are more likely than liberals to buy pornography online, New Scientist reports. In a nationwide study of purchases at an adult entertainment company, researchers found that...

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YaY! Troop Injuries Hit New High in Afghanistan

More than 1,000 troops have been injured in the last 3 months—a quarter of all the injuries sustained since the...

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Another public program bites the dust: Green Joyride Sours for Paris' Rental Bikes

A public bicycle-rental program launched in Paris in 2007 amid green good feeling has found reality to be a rough ride. Locals and tourists alike get unlimited access to...

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Where would we be, without free trade? I Sold Panties on Craigslist

The buyers weren't bad, but some of the nonbuyers were slimy

An "impoverished journalist" not quite desperate enough to sell her body on...

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YaY! UK's Colonel whacked by roadside bomb after whinging about a lack of choppers

Britain's newspapers are up in arms today over the revelation that a commander got killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan just weeks after warning...

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OZschwitz: Legacy of Kevin Rudd, the prime minister--About as useful as a soft prick on a honeymoon

He established numerous reviews, taskforces, expert panels and inquiries, no doubt consuming whole forests of trees and occupying armies of...

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No end to their irrationality: Catholic church assigns a patron saint for breast cancer

The Minnesota Vikings had just scored another touchdown, after a huge throw by 40-year-old quarterback Brett Favre, into the safe arms of his wide receiver. They were playing...

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When specialist opinion is at odds with reality, trust your judgment

It's lucky, rather, that Leonardo da Vinci graced us with his sublime presence 500 years ago, a time when it was still considered possible to excel at more than one thing. These days, an engineer who...

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OZschwitz: Thanks to statism, overwhelmed charities in Sydney are turning away homeless people

OVERWHELMED charities in Sydney are turning away dozens of homeless people a night.

Mission Australia spokesman Paul Andrews said its 14-bed Liverpool Centre - one of its...

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Zero-emission scooter to debut in Japan

A Japanese zero-emission "hybrid" scooter to be released next year runs 10 times as economically as a petrol engine bike and can be assisted by human pedal...

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YaY! OZschwitz poLICE pelted with bricks near Newcastle

Seven people were arrested after police were pelted with bricks and bottles at Raymond Terrace north of Newcastle.

Police went to Mt Hall Road, Raymond Terrace, at about 1am (AEDT) on Sunday after...

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