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Christian Hypocrisy From the Religious Right
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2011 Comment (31)W.W.J.D.? How about what would Jesus say? What would he say about the way we treat the poor, the homeless, the hungry, the sick, the elderly?
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Rick Perry's Flat Tax: Texas Feudalism Writ Large
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2011 Comment (5)LAKEWOOD, COLO.—The University of Texas sports fan weblog Burnt Orange Nation put it best about Rick Perry in a September 2011 post about conference re-alignment: "Rick Perry? Seriously? The guy who bombed his way through college and couldn't get an A in Cow Parts 101 if you spotted him everything but the udder?"
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Why Do Automakers Enable Idiotic Texting While Driving?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (9)Technology, again, is at war with law enforcement and just basic common sense. Hence, we have automakers fashioning cars so that drivers can have their text messages spoken to them. The idea is to circumvent laws that rightly ban texting while driving. The laws themselves are almost laughable, since the practice is so objectively dangerous and stupid, one wonders why anyone has to be told not to do it. It's right up there with those signs at the U.S. Post Office warning people that they are not allowed to mail bleach. Who mails bleach? If you're even thinking about mailing bleach, you have bigger problems than the U.S. Post Office is medically qualified to solve.
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What the Founders Would Think of Occupy Wall Street
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (9)If you haven't already checked out blogger Will Wilkinson's work at BigThink.com, do yourself the favor. His post this morning on John Rawls—the preeminent modern liberal philosopher of the 20th century—is worth a read.
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Obama Adept Abroad, Inept at Home
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (15)Former President George W. Bush, send a Texas-size thank you note to POTUS—Barack Obama just saved your neck by ending the war in Iraq, which you waged with no provocation.
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'Left' vs. 'Right' Debate Not Solving Our Economic Problems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2011 Comment (8)Last week, I passed along a quote from the sociologist Robert Nisbet about the parallel growth of central governments and individualism.
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Illegal Immigrants Not to Blame for Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2011 Comment (35)Memo to Alabama: George W. Bush was right.
The former president, making a too-late push for what could have been a game-changing, bipartisan immigration reform law, noted that immigrants now here illegally make an important contribution to the economy. They do the jobs Americans can’t or won’t do.
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Failed Democrat Pol Sues Critics Over Election Loss
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2011 Comment (480)There's nothing quite like a politician scorned.
When voters in Ohio's 1st Congressional District threw Democrat Steve Driehaus out of office after only one term, he did not bow out gracefully. No, he decided to get even. So he did what anyone does in today's culture: he sued somebody.
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Economists Continue to Call for the Repeal of the Death Tax
Tweet Share on Facebook October 21, 2011 Comment (2)The effort to permanently repeal the federal death tax is still very much alive.
The issue has been given new life by a letter released earlier this week by more than 250 prominent economists including several Nobel laureates, several former Federal Reserve Bank presidents and presidential economic advisers from the Kennedy, Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush administrations.
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What Bush's 'Compassionate Conservatism' Got Right
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