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From the annals of bad law: By midcentury some thinkers in the law schools and elsewhere had come to see lawsuits as a kind of surrogate so...

The hyper-partisanship of our bureaucracy: So has the IRS gone off the rails into hyper-partisanship, leaving behind other more balanced f...

Environmental activism commonly doesn't have anything to do with the environment, as evidenced in this article from the environmentalist...

Environmental regulations don't help the environment , and ruin everyday things while they are at it: The whole trend began in (wait fo...

Americans are far more generous than every European nation:

Michael Totten sets the record straight on the Prime Minister of Tunisia : Ennahda is described as “moderate” in almost every single articl...

Apparently radio was once controlled by the mob : From the late 1970s through 1986, radio was controlled by the mob, and you had a lot of p...

The War on Poverty has failed :

There is no recovery : Diana Carew reports "in July 2013, just 36 percent of Americans age 16-24 not enrolled in school worked full...

Quote of the day : It is not dependence per se, which is a universal fact of human life, but dependence without mutual obligation, that cor...

There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation ...

The Economist is changing its tune, " The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought...

Realpolitik in the Middle East : This is one of the reasons conspiracy theories are popular in the Middle East. Bizarre conspiracies actual...

"Every time we look at them, they want more money. Like pigs, you know. Here we’re slaving, and we’re starving and the goddamn workers ...

A Washington Post op-ed claims: Nearly all of the mass shootings in this country in recent years — not just Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Tu...