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By Lee Tydings | Feb 4, 2008 |
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Hillary is right in pointing out that most parents could use some help, but it doesn't take a village. It especially doesn't take a village of government-funded social workers, most of whom are either not yet married or divorced.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 31, 2008 |
14
Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 29, 2008 |
8
Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all. How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund? Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 23, 2008 |
2
It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 22, 2008 |
2
Government ought to be able to help the economy - assuming that politicians want the economy to grow and assuming that the government is able to do what the politicians promise.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 18, 2008 |
29
We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 17, 2008 |
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We gripe about bias in the mainstream media because freedom of the press is only meaningful if you happen to own a press, but enough people have presses to keep politicians on their toes.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 16, 2008 |
19
Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars? The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 12, 2008 |
8
Principals have be to able to fire teachers, or you can't run an effective school.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 7, 2008 |
8
One of the supreme ironies of our time is that a religiously-motivated US president went to war in the name of God to set up a non-religious state in Iraq to protect Americans against a highly religious movement known as Al Qaeda.