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	<title>Beyond The Broken Spectrum</title>
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		<title>Thinking for Oneself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the discussion following one of my recent lectures, it occurred to me that the questions fell into a pattern, and that this pattern was the same — whether in Manila, or Boise, or wherever. Each question was based on something the inquirer had heard or read; no questions appeared to stem from a genuine [...]


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		<title>The Stimulus Scam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent improvement of the global economy, with particularly high economic-growth numbers for the United States, is just one more deception in a long series of deceptions that have plagued policy makers and investors. While official statistics register a rising gross domestic product, the long-term production potential of many economies around the world is actually [...]


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		<title>Politics Cannot Be Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been many complaints recently about the way Washington works — or rather its recent failures to efficiently implement Obama&#8217;s policy priorities.
Paul Krugman compares the present state of American politics to the gridlock that afflicted 17th-century Poland. Use of the Liberum Veto froze the Polish parliament (the Sejm). Now senators are holding up new [...]


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		<title>The Gold Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men have chosen the precious metals gold and silver for the money service on account of their mineralogical, physical, and chemical features. The use of money in a market economy is a praxeologically necessary fact. That gold — and not something else — is used as money is merely a historical fact and as such [...]


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		<title>Why Not Universal Car Insurance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently involved in a car accident in which I managed to smash the front end of my Chrysler — one consolation is the fact that it was a Chrysler and so was not much of a loss. I sat around for a minute or two, trying to figure out what had just happened. [...]


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		<title>Marijuana &#8211; The Wonder Drug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lester Grinspoon MD
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts &#8212; A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine that we still need &#8220;proof&#8221; of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
The study, from the University of [...]


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		<title>The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Russ Belville of NORML
I work this issue every day and am well aware of the racist nature of the War on (Certain American Citizens Using Non-Pharmaceutical, Non-Alcoholic, Tobacco-Free) Drugs. But even I wasn’t aware of the outrageous statistics comparing the Drug War to Jim Crow era. Michelle Alexander lays it all out in her [...]


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		<title>Government asked to intervene in television disputes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cable, satellite TV and other video providers have asked the government to intervene in ongoing fee disputes with TV networks — big-money fights that are expected to escalate this year as more contracts expire. Read More
So these people want the government to step in because their tv watching is getting disrupted. This is truly a [...]


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		<title>Cisco unveils ultra-fast Internet technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco unveiled a new Internet technology Tuesday that it says will provide the ultra-fast data speeds necessary to stay ahead of users&#8217; rapidly growing online video demands.
The new technology, known as &#8220;CRS-3,&#8221; is a network routing system that will be able to offer downloads of up to 322 Terabits per second, according to the company.
Translation: [...]


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		<title>Chain of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to get a video of this song done by Clay Walker but was unable to find one. However this one will suffice, as the message here is what really counts.



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		<title>German fails to prove atom-smasher will end world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A German woman fearing that Earth would be sucked into oblivion in a black hole failed on Tuesday in her court attempt to halt the world&#8217;s most powerful atom-smasher. The Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman&#8217;s appeal because she was &#8220;unable to give a coherent account of how [...]


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		<title>Inventive Progress, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For thousands of years under the Old World concept of a static economy operating under bureaucratic control, human beings lived in hunger, filth, and disease. They worked ceaselessly at backbreaking drudgery to keep life in wretched bodies. They died young. For thousands of years, when not fighting wars, they managed to build pigsty shelters, to [...]


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		<title>Inventive Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the American Revolution had its beginning, living conditions had scarcely changed since the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The colonial woman gathered her own firewood and cooked over an open fire, just as women had cooked since the dawn of history, and just as more than two-thirds of the women on earth are cooking today. She [...]


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		<title>A Strategy for the Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I call the Old Right is suddenly back! The terms &#8220;old&#8221; and &#8220;new&#8221; inevitably get confusing, with a new &#8220;new&#8221; every few years, so let&#8217;s call it the &#8220;Original&#8221; Right, the right wing as it existed from 1933 to approximately 1955. This Old Right was formed in reaction against the New Deal, and against [...]


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		<title>Running on Empty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Butler Shaffer, LewRockwell.com
It is not surprising that, when culture is in collapse, so too is the level of thinking upon which it is based. This is doubtless the social equivalent of the proposition that water can never rise higher than its source. For a civilization to be creative and to thrive, it must have [...]


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