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Markets
work extremely well in dealing with the sorts of problems with
which markets deal.
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Governments
work extremely poorly in dealing with the sorts of problems
with which markets deal.
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Governments
work extremely well in causing the sorts of problems
which governments enjoy pretending to solve.
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Within
fewer years than you might think, intelligent design theory
will be giving the Darwinist money-changers a hard time in the
scientific temple.
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Sixty
years on, there is still something fishy about FDR and Pearl
Harbor.
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Stalin
killed more people than Hitler.
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Mao killed
more people than Stalin.
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In terms
of what he had to work with, Pol Pot killed more people, proportionately,
than Hitler, Stalin, or Mao.
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Pol Pot
was educated in France. This may not mean a thing.
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Multiculturalism
is not a reliable means of resolving the Rodney King Problem
(‘Can’t we all just get along?’).
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Spiro
Agnew wrote a novel. Not everyone has read it.
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Secession
was a logical implication of the American system of federalism.
Absent the right of secession, we are all serfs of the paper
feudalists in Washington City. This is okay with Printing Press
Kudlow.
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The Great
Plague, brought by Mongols, killed between one third to half
of the population of Europe in the 14th century.
Where are our reparations?
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Many Anglican
clergymen in South Africa, before the recent happy arrival of
universal brotherhood, were card-carrying members of the ANC.
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The ANC
was riddled, packed, and eat-up with card-carrying Stalinists.
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It follows
that the ANC was a coalition of Anglican clergymen, Stalinists,
and Xhosa royalty. Not exhaustive, but there is an overlooked
kernel of truth here.
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Saddam
Hussein was largely a U.S. creation.
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Manuel
Noriega was largely a U.S. creation.
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The Shah
of Iran was largely a U.S. creation.
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Somoza
of Nicaragua was largely a U.S. creation.
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Marcos
of the Philippines was largely a U.S. creation.
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There
may be others.
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Corollary:
U.S. creations have an alarming rate of ‘going bad.’
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Second
corollary: Dr. Frankenstein should find another line of work.
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The rate
at which the Republican Party will sell out its supposed constituency
approaches the speed of light. This leads one to wonder what
the real constituency of that party is.
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The War
in Vietnam was a bad idea.
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A major
architect of that war got a really good job at the World Bank.
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The World
Bank gave lots of bad advice to the soon-to-be-former Yugoslavia.
Admittedly, this was probably not the fault of the major architect
of the Vietnam War, who was writing books by then.
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Nonetheless,
it may be that persons interested in keeping their lives and
property should not heed the World Bank. (Wanniski’s Law.)
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NATO is
a High Cold War anachronism, which should have been disbanded
around 1990.
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If NATO
membership is extended to all states in the world, it will be
hard to say what NATO’s mission is.
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Myron
Cohen was very funny. (See – it isn’t all politics around
here.)
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‘Smart
bombs’ are not particularly ‘precise,’ unless you define precision
as the ability to blow up an area the size of two football fields
after hitting within several yards of the presumptive target.
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If you
‘degrade’ the ‘infrastructure’ of a Middle Eastern state, many
people will die, long after the military heroics are
over.
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Mme. Albright
‘can live with that.’
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If God
appointed Mme. Albright to make such decisions, then all theism
is wrong.
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It is
more likely that Mme. Albright is wrong.
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There
are no Neo-Cons. Just ask them.
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If there
are no Neo-Cons, who is in charge? Damn! It must be The People.
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If a Straussian
bares his soul, does the abyss stare back? How would you know?
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No freedoms
worth having were sacrificed to federal civil rights. If you
don't believe me, ask the nonexistent Neo-Cons. None whatsoever.
No sirree.
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It is
morally wrong for any political party to seek the votes of white
Southerners. On this interpretation of "democracy,"
the best thing would be to disenfranchise white Southerners.
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Betting
pool: which Neo-Con will be the first to endorse this solution,
assuming Neo-Cons actually exist?
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If secession
was so intrinsically immoral, why was West Virginia never reintegrated
into Virginia? There may be good reasons; I’m just asking. Don’t
hit me! I’m a Mountain William, too, on the Scots-Irish side.
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Who was
the first Neo-Con, if such there be? Pericles? Sir Francis Bacon?
Henri Rouvroy Comte de Saint-Simon? Suggestions welcome.
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