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By Will Offensicht  |  Jun 16, 2008  |   
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                    Poverty causes terrorism?  Not so much...
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Jun 11, 2008  |   
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                    The days of Westerners traveling with safety, even in benighted lands, are over.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Jun 10, 2008  |   
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                    There's a good reason for tyrants to want it to be extremely difficult for anyone to get a car.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  May 21, 2008  |   
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                    What on earth is a US Army officer doing kissing the Koran?
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  May 20, 2008  |   
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                    China's masters are starting to act like they care about ordinary Chinese.  Quite a new leaf for Communists.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  May 13, 2008  |   
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                    Judges which rule based on feelings rather than the law, cause unintended consequences quite the opposite of what they wanted.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  May 12, 2008  |   
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                    There are many places around the world where we should "Do Something!"
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Mar 25, 2008  |   
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                    If Microsoft ends up actually paying the fines which have been assessed by the EU Anti-Competition bureaucracy, it will make a bigger contribution to the EU budget than many member countries.
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Mar 3, 2008  |   
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                    Mr. Obama's goal of eliminating extreme global poverty and halving global poverty would cost nearly half our entire federal budget.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Feb 22, 2008  |   
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                    It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.