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Thomas Sowell, one of The godfathers of American conservatism, turns 90 today. If you’ve never read of any his books, pick any of them and give yourself a treat!
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Believe it or not, some people are fighting back in that most leftist of art forms: theater.
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Today is the tenth of anniversary of Operation Red Wings, the mission depicted in movie "Lone Survivor." Let's never forget these amazing heroes!
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Drawing from the Hebrew Bible, playwright and Bureau of Labor Statistics bureaucrat Jason Ford retells the story of Jonah and the whale in his Jonah Dove. He sees it as a story of guilt and a dysfunctional family updated to 21st-century Washington.
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"CHECHENS COME HOME TO ROAST"
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Police say they arrested 66-year-old Larry Brinkin, the high-profile gay activist, on possession of child pornography on Friday night.
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A first-grade teacher in Silver Spring, Md., was accused of choking nine students, NBC Washington's Pat Collins reported.
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Thomas Sowell, one of the greats of conservative thought, turns 80 today. Sowell's books and columns were the biggest factor in changing me from a liberal to a conservative. I suspect other freepers have been influenced by him as well.
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Feminist theologian and author Mary Daly, who retired from a professorship at Boston College rather than allow men to take her classes, has died.
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Ignacio Ponseti, MD, whose pioneering, non-surgical, low-cost clubfoot treatment has benefited hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, died Oct. 18 at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at age 95 following a sudden illness. Ponseti's gentle methods and soft-spoken compassion were a hallmark of a six-decade commitment to helping children, and belied a sometimes tumultuous, even dangerous, early career in medicine. Ponseti was born in 1914 on the Spanish island of Minorca. As a teenager, he worked summers in his watchmaker father's repair shop. Hours spent learning to make and replace tiny, delicate watch parts were lessons in patience and...
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Conservatives are logical people who use data. I thought the sports fans among us could use data and general impressions to answer the following question: which active-duty players should go to the Baseball Hall of Fame? It's a good subject for argument so that we can sharpen our wits when we debate more substantial matters. I'm ignoring the steroid issue in my opinions. I'm going on data here, but others can give their views on how steroids should affect the voting. I'll start with my opinion so you can tell me where I'm wrong. Based on statistics alone, the following...
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This past week, Washington, DC put up a monument to the Victims of Communism. Please see http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/ for the details. I had an idea for a small addition to the monument. This addition wouldn't be built in Washington, however. It would have to be built 150.8 miles away. Let's say you built a wall with the same height and number of names per square foot as the Vietnam War Memorial. That wall would have to be 150.8 miles long to record the names of all those killed by Communism. (I'm using the estimate of 94 million deaths.) I thought it...
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Welcome to the homepage of G.V. Loganathan
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"Nearly two-thirds of Zimbabweans — including many former terrorist leaders — did, however, and when a moderate named Abel Muzorewa won handily on a pledge to make an orderly transition to majority rule, then-U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and his boss, Jimmy Carter — supported avidly by The New York Times, along with every other left-leaning paper on the planet — flipped. Furious at the prospect of a less-than-immediate transition, they insisted that the election results not be recognized. Democrats and their allies in the press mounted a stiff effort to keep sanctions in place until Muzorewa’s government collapsed, and a...
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... Without Milton Friedman's role in changing the minds of so many Americans, it is hard to imagine how Ronald Reagan could have been elected president. Nor was Friedman's influence confined to the United States. His ideas reached around the world, not only among economists, but also in political circles which began to understand why left-wing ideas that sounded so good produced results that were so bad...
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This thread is an update on Rall's attempt to sue Ann Coulter. Rall now says he does want to sue Coulter for a joke she made about him, but it's going to cost a lot of money. He previously asked for cash just for the filing. He now wants a whole lot more cash to pursue legal action. He's asking for donations, since (surprise, surprise) his lawyer won't work on a contingency basis. The strong of stomach can read the whole thing at http://www.tedrall.com/rants.html. He can't draw, he can't write, he has a thin skin, and now he's a shyster...
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....Javers then took it upon himself to establish, right then, a completely new set of rules regarding columnists disclosure of the receipt of corporate money. All previous standards were null and void...
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I'll breeze right past the fact that the heaviest mail day of my career as a newspaper columnist came when I announced the end of that career. What I want to think about instead is something that is enormously flattering and still a little mysterious.
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An excerpt can't do it justice. Please follow the link. The article is long but worth the read.
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The "Listen Carefully" joke started on FR a few years back. I know, it's been posted a lot, but I figured it was cool that it got listed on the "50 funniest" of one of the most popular magazines in the world. Here was where the joke originated. (If I have no other claim to fame in my humdrum life, I can at least take credit for a few silly jokes.) It's interesting how it evolved: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/597015/posts (I don't think any DU joke ever made it to Reader's Digest top 50 list. Unless they think "Bush is not just evil--he's...
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