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Insightful thoughts on the Eldorado polygamy compound raid

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I felt the need to chime in about the potential rights and certain wrongs of the raid by Texas police of the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints polygamist ranch in Eldorado, but I think Wendy McElroy expressed thoughts very similar to my own much better than I could have. If I have ...

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I hate hippies!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

On Chris Lander's web page Stuff White People Like, there are primarily two types of blag posts: entries into the ever-growing list of stuff white people like, and news items that exemplify white people liking those things. So far, the most famous and well-liked entry in the list of stuff ...

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The capitalist reformer of Estonia

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Mart Laar, prime minister of the former Soviet republic of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002, won the 2006 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute's description of him says, Laar realized that the only way for Estonia to weather ...

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Emma Goldman

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

The subject of today's featured article on the home page of Wikipedia.

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