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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

What Is The Point of Racial Integration Laws?

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Of course, these days, the term "integration" has been updated with euphemisms like "fair housing", "social justice...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

What Might A Harvard University 150,000-Subject Study Be Missing?

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They studied foods that make people gain weight. If you want to gain weight, you should eat: Potato chips, sugar-sweetened beverages, unpr...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

How Should I Think About My Opinion, In Three Easy Steps?

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1. Are the facts correct? Saying that an aspirin will make your headache go away only makes sense if it is a fact that you have a headache....
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

What is "Progressivism"?

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Progressivism is, like many other mass movements, tribalist, and based lies, arrogance, hatred, and hypocrisy. 1. It rests on fabricated, ...

What is "Racism"?

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Aside from being used to demonize those with whom you disagree, so-called "racism" is a catch-all term that includes many differ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

What Are Rights?

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Rights are very confusing. Some people say that The Constitution defines their rights, others say that their rights are defined by God, and ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Does "Income" Have Any Meaning?

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You say to me, "Please hold this apple for thirty seconds and return it to me." I then take the apple, and return it to you. Did y...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Is It OK To Confiscate Jewish Assets?

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Regarding Europeans complicit in The Holocaust: The Hungarian government used the assets seized from Jews to extend its pension system and r...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Are "Bailouts" and "Economic Stimuli" Effective?

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Of course not. Unless you define "effective" as the compulsory transfer of property from a productive person to another who has no...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

What Is The Basis Of Morality?

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This is an update of an earlier post. It's still incomplete, but here are ten items that can define a philosophical basis of morality: 1...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Does Welfare Stimulate The Economy?

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It sure does, if you ask Congress and The President: Deal Struck to Send Checks to Taxpayers Most single taxpayers would get $600 and most t...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Is Wealth Acquired by Accident?

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Is Wealth Acquired by Luck? It is an accident that you just happened to be born to parents with the means to provide for you. And it is also...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Is the "Collapse" of Housing Prices a Good Thing?

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Sure is. If you think that lower gas prices, lower tuition prices, lower insurance premiums, etc. are a good idea, then why wouldn't lo...

Are Slavery Reparations a Smart Idea?

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Are slavery reparations a smart idea? No. 1. Some people (who happened to white) enslaved others (who happened to be black). How does...
Friday, November 2, 2007

Can Tax Cuts be Harmful?

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Can Tax Cuts be Harmful? Perhaps so. In yesterday's Wall Street Journal , "Pete" du Pont points out that lower tax rates...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Should Cities Ban Jewish-Made Products?

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Should Cities Ban Jewish-Made Products? For that matter, should they ban black-made, female-made, homosexual-made, etc. products? Well, why ...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Is Bush Violating The U.S. Constitution?

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That's not even a valid question, unless you're also upset over all the routine constitutional violations by the Federal Government ...
Friday, July 6, 2007

What is "Heritage"?

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In everyday use, "heritage" usually refers to a culturally inherited trait that the individual receives from his parents. And so, ...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Can Slavery Be A Good Thing?

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Yes it can. In fact, when slavery is beneficial, it goes by the term "taxes." Of course, all taxes are harmful in some way, but...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Is Suburban Sprawl Bad?

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First, we need to remove the biases from this question: 1. The phrase "suburban sprawl" is the opposite of "urban suffocation...
Monday, May 14, 2007

What is The Difference Between Buyers and Sellers?

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Almost none. To illustrate, consider barter: If I give you a potato in exchange for an orange, then who is the buyer and who is the seller?...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Is Racial Profiling Morally Acceptable at Airports?

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If anything, "racial profiling" is morally required at airports. Of course, there are a couple of caveats here: 1. Since ...
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Monday, May 7, 2007

Why Do People Tell Jokes?

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First, let's define "joke" as not being a one-liner, or a brief witticism. Instead, it's referring to the interminable sto...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007

How Do Labor Unions Work? What Benefits do They Bring?

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Labor unions exist to gain above-market benefits by eliminating competition through coercion. Without unions, any employer who is unsatisfie...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Why Do People Help Complete Strangers?

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Would you help someone who was just hit by a car? Someone who you do not know, and will never see again? Of course you would (I hope). But w...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Is "Equal Pay" a Good Idea?

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No, it is a terrible idea. "Equal Pay" goes by other names, such as "Comparable Worth", and is intended to remedy the...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

What Good is Envy?

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Envy is a good example of a biologically-driven impulse that, on average, benefits us all -- although it might hurt the person who suffers ...
Monday, April 23, 2007

How Can We Get More Banks in Poor Neighborhoods?

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A new report by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition finds that most of the largest metropolitan areas of the United States have m...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Does Determinism Have Internal Contradictions?

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Yes, it has a major one. If we accept the premise of determinism that everything has a cause, then it follows that every cause has a caus...
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Friday, April 20, 2007

Can Mass Murderers be Stopped?

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Yes. But NOT by these methods: 1. Gun control. Anyone who is risking life imprisonment, the death penalty -- or ending it all with suic...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Do Trial Lawyers Have Morals?

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The ones who only take cases of innocent clients might have morals; the others do not. The purpose of a trial-by-jury is to protect the inn...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

What is "Third-Party Victimhood"?

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Third-Party Victimhood was eloquently defined by H.L. Mencken: " Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of improving or saving ...
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