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February 14, 2007
After making a brief appearance in 2005 and spending 2006 in the wings, Social Security reform took center stage again last week with the inclusion of “personal retirement accounts” in President Bush’s budget proposal.
Following the…
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February 7, 2007
Longtime Internet users will recognize the phrase “All your base are belong to us.” It’s a comically stupid but popular English translation from a late ’80s Japanese video game. In a nutshell, it is a declaration of dominance – everything of…
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January 31, 2007
If you want to shut down a debate, simply call your opponent a Nazi.
It’s quick, easy and requires no thought whatsoever.
Laugh at your opponent without allowing him to speak. Oh, and make a film about your point of view and name…
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January 29, 2007
"The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman" is scheduled to air on PBS Monday, Jan. 29, 2007 at 10 p.m. ET. For local listings click here.
“The Power of Choice,” a documentary on the life and ideas of Milton Friedman, is an…
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January 24, 2007
President Bush announced in his State of the Union address that Americans should reduce gasoline usage by 20 percent over the next 10 years. But how will this be achieved?
With or without government
In 1931 Harold Hotelling published a…
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January 17, 2007
The Depression was only “great” because of the great harm it caused to millions. While the Dust Bowl devastated farmland, the stock market crash wiped out companies and unemployment overwhelmed the nation’s workforce.
Folk singer Woody…
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January 10, 2007
“The weather outside is frightful.” That used to mean something ominous – like the dreaded four-letter word “snow.”
Now “frightful” has come to describe a warm, spring-like day filled with golfers and Frisbee players. And the quote above…
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January 3, 2007
As Democrats take power in Congress, speculation has swirled around the question of why Republicans lost. But there is a factor – a costly factor affecting American businesses – that has gone largely unnoticed.
In the summer of 2002…
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December 30, 2008
A fellow is ballooning in New Mexico. He miscalculates the wind, somehow floats into a wind-stream that carries him so high he passes out from lack of oxygen, then deposits him out in the middle of the desert. He comes to, disoriented and lost, but…
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December 17, 2008
On Sunday, Dec. 14, “Good Morning America” devoted about 10 minutes to a segment about the theft of baby Jesus statues from nativity scenes on church lawns. As they pointed out, these thefts are not a new crime. In fact, once the subject of an…