Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
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Former LP Presidential Nominee Harry Browne On Real Social Security Reform
Should Government Subsidize Science?
In short, no. For one answer, see here. I'll simply point out here that I don't believe in the central planning of anything, not to mention science, and I think the monopoly and inertia of the State would hamper progress in science.
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(Cato Institute). See image of the day. Our world is getting better every day. To learn more, follow HumanProgress.org....
That 50 inch HD TV was over $10,000 when it was introduced.
The OP is totally clueless. The point is--who could buy a nearly $9000 TV in 1954. Most middle-class consumers stuck with their black-and-whites. More well-to-do consumers often fund the initial high-cost production runs, paving the way to the mass market.. I paid over $1000 for an early-model VCR, and within a year or two, prices were cut by more than half for improved models.
(Reason). Elementary school students forced to drop their pants so school administrators can inspect their underwear.
Well, the old saying goes "Always wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident". I guess in modern times we substitute "in case your school thinks it's a prison or the TSA..."
(Sen. Lee, R-UT). Loretta Lynch: "Civil forfeiture is a very important tool."
The first step, Sen. Lee, is not to depend on the discretion of future AG's for civil asset foreiture but to write reform into law. Second, if there is civil asset forfeiture, the presumption of innocence must be for the property holder, not the State.
(National Review). Everyone please stop defending Huckabee or I might do something unforgivable like say a naughty word at my desk.
Oh, really, conservative means libertene? Edmund Burke, the intellectual godfather of conservatism, once wrote: “Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend.”
I find it less incongruous for an ordained Southern Baptist minister to object to the use of coarse language than for a National Review columnist to lecture us on ideological feminism and politically correct rhetoric.
There has been a notion of gender differences in communication and behavior, that women are more adept and empathetic in situational context, less likely to engage in aggressive, provocative actions, like the use of coarse language.
Once again, for a number of us, our mothers or typically female elementary school teachers were the ones who reprimanded us on inappropriate use of language, who lectured us on the finer points of etiquette. The point that Huckabee made had more to do with regional, cultural differences than gender.
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| Look--It's Robbin' (in the) Hood.... Courtesy of Michael Ramirez via Townhall |
Céline Dion, "Taking Chances". This is her last A/C Top 10 hit. This concludes my Dion series; with the next post, I'll start a series on recently deceased Joe Cocker.
