The number of Americans on antidepressants doubled from 1996 to 2005, a new study finds, but fewer are seeing...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
YaY! Long Wars Fray Military Marriages
With the Iraq and Afghanistan wars dragging on, long, multiple deployments are taking a toll on military families, USA Today reports. Troops develop instincts on the battlefield that don’t...
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Judges: Calif. Must Free 43000 Inmates
California violates inmates' constitutional rights by cramming them into overcrowded and unhealthy prisons, three federal judges ruled today. They ordered the state to...
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Top 'American' Inventions
President Obama has called on Americans to innovate their way to a speedy economic recovery. In that spirit, Live Science rounds up the...
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Quietly, Censorship Takes Hold in Iraq
When Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, his draconian censorship laws fell with him, and Iraq was flooded with American news, Egyptian soap operas, and...
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Brothers in Spirit: Clinton Meets With Kim Jong Il
Bill Clinton has met with reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, official state media reports. The Korean news agency described Clinton as...
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Indian poLICE brutality condemned
Human Rights Watch has published a report which criticises the Indian police force for the routine brutality it employs against...
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Yet Another Free Market Win: China Trusts Prostitutes More Than Politicians
The Chinese people trust prostitutes more than they trust politicians, scientists, or soldiers, according to a new survey from Insight China Magazine. Sex workers finished...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
There have been all sorts of books about libertarianism, from introductory treatises to memoirs and biographies of important figures in the field to histories such as...
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Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
There have now been many conservative and libertarian books covering the demise of American liberty under the U.S. Constitution, so if you don’t think...
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John Maynard Keynes: The Damage Still Done by a Defunct Economist
Seventy years ago, on February 4, 1936, the English economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) published what soon became his most famous work,...
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The Shame of Medicine: The Depravity of Psychiatry
Responding to my May 2009 column, George Mason University economics professor Bryan Caplan commented: “In the last couple of decades, a lot of people have apologized for...
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Why Socialism Failed
Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered...
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Huron shares plummet amid accounting scandal
CHICAGO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Huron Consulting Group Inc (HURN.O), which helps clients dodge accounting pitfalls and stay on the right side of the law, faced its own corporate meltdown on Monday sparked by a bookkeeping scandal that...
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Diplomacy lets off Swiss bank UBS over US customer tax evasion scandal
While Obama's administration looks to clamp down on tax evasion, the Swiss bank must only hand over details of 5,000 of its full list of...
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Ex-Chicago rabbi indicted in tax-fraud case arrested
Ring allegedly used stolen IDs of inmates to file for refunds
A former Chicago rabbi and nine of his family members and associates have been indicted in connection with...
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A former Chicago rabbi and nine of his family members and associates have been indicted in connection with...
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ANCAP Good News: Tax Revenue Takes Biggest Dive Since Great Depression
US tax revenue is set to shrink 18% from last fiscal year to the current one, ending in October—the largest falloff since...
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Higher Pennsylvania income taxes quashed, but the looting statists are scheming other options
HARRISBURG -- House Democratic leaders said Monday a proposed income tax the governor sought no longer is under consideration and lawmakers will shift their attention to...
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OZschwitz: A Festival of Dangerous Ideas
It seems that danger, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. St James Ethics Centre in Sydney has announced a Festival of Dangerous Ideas for the first weekend of October. The key speaker is the controversialist – and prominent atheist – ...
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Work four hours, then rest
‘Whoever has not two thirds of his day for him self is a slave,’’ declared Friedrich Nietzsche, part of a long tradition of thinkers who thought..
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Corrupt idiots: East Timor contracts go to Jakarta interests
A JAKARTA company has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply police and army equipment...
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OZschwitz: Tropics a hot favorite for parasitical ex-MPs’ free flights
CAIRNS and Broome are the favourite winter retreats for former MPs, who enjoyed tens of thousands of...
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To Dodge Obamacare, Turn Amish (or Mennonite)
Backers of health care reform on Capitol Hill want a plan that mandates insurance for all—but they appear willing to bend the...
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