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• The rise and rise of online bingo

  
  Blu-Ray1st — Authority: 150
  Internet-based bingo has become wildly popular recently. The development of ’skinnable’ generic games mean that the game has become widely available. Its no surprise that websites dedicated to gaming and gambling would move first to seize market share, many unlikely operators such as online lingerie shops have ...
  9 hours ago

• From The City Journal Via Arts & Letters Daily: Who Needs Mathematicians For Math, Anyway?

  
  Chris Navin — Authority: 125
  Full article here . In the City Journal,  you know some of what to expect:  we’ve moved away from our best moral and intellectual traditions in favor of excessive egalitarianism.   Some of the culprits are on the political left and they need to be stopped. “Some influential educators sought to dismiss the ...
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• Harman’s Speculative Bubble: The Runaway Capitalism of OOP

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 418
  Philosophical Gambling: Let’s Make a Bubble The Velvet Howler  made a brilliant, off-the cuff diagnosis of Graham Harman’s so-called Object-Oriented Philosophy over in a Perverse Egalitarianism thread  that started out light but has gotten more substance. It is really worth repeating for it pulls Harman ...
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• Capital gains taxation and Medicare

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 120
  Ive often lamented the way the capital gains preference works.  First, it distorts taxation by providing a clear preference for capital income over labor income.  The purported rationale for the preference is based in economic theories that, as we have seen repeatedly, assume away most of the real world and satisfy ...
  2 days ago

• Tracing the Fruit Back to the Root (Part 1): The Trinity & Egalitarianism

  
  ??? ??? ?????????? — Authority: 124
  Now in the confession of the Trinity we hear the heartbeat of the Christian religion: every error results from, or upon deeper reflection is traceable to, a departure in the doctrine of the Trinity (Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics , vol. 2, God and Creation , 2:288). What a remarkable and fascinating statement ...
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• More on the Estate TAx--the Heritage Foundation speaks gobbledygook

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 120
  hat tip to Tax Prof and its commenters The Heritage Foundation, Im afraid Ive concluded, is not a "think tank" at all--its a propaganda tank.  And the propaganda it spews tends to be in support of ideas that may sound sort of okay if you dont probe them very deeply but are apparently intended to further the ...
  4 days ago

• Does Ephesians 5:21 Teach "Mutual Submission"?

  
  Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. — Authority: 126
  Dr. Allen Yeh is at it again. Over at Scriptorium Daily , Dr. Yeh wrote a second article in defense of egalitarianism as a follow-up to his socio-cultural approach . I responded to the socio-cultural article last week, claryifing why it is not inconsistent for complementarians (like myself) to allow for women ...
  5 days ago

• The Color of Juvenile Crime in St. Louis City: Almost Monochrome

  
  Countenance Blog — Authority: 135
  Hank Thompson, St. Louis black talk radio’s avuncular voice of erudition, heard from a prominent St. Louis City circuit juvenile court judge that 99% of all juvenile offenders in his court are black.  Mr. Thompson doesn’t like this, and, drawing the only conclusion that a good racial egalitarian can, thinks that ...
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• Legislative and Judicial Chaos -- Political Sermons the Best Remedy? Of Course

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  ...He that ruleth over men, must rule in the fear of God. As if the royal prophet had said, “It is necessary, civil rulers should have upon their minds a becoming sense of God and religion: And it should govern their public conduct. Whatever they do, in their several stations, should be done under the guidance of an ...
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• Warren Buffet and taxes

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 120
  Tax Prof reported today on a critique of Warren Buffet .   As many will recall, Buffet was outspoken during the presidential campaign about the problem of a tax system that favors the super-rich over the middle class.  He noted that he paid tax at a rate considerably below that of his secretary, suggesting that ...
  1 week ago

• Christianity and Covenants: Husbands and Wives

  
  Zeal For Truth — Authority: 117
  This is the second article in a multi-part series on Christianity and covenants. Other topics are: Christians and Marriage Christians and the Local Church Christians and Employers Christians and Finances/Debt Christians and Governments Christians and Animals and the Environment Husbands and Wives It is an ...
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• Massachusetts Man Fired For Belief in Traditional Marriage

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  Man fired after saying homosexuality wrongAccused of harassment even though lesbian approached him
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• Wright talks about Philemon & Frye talks about Jesus and Women

  
  The Eagle & Child — Authority: 120
  Go  here for a remarkable  sermon by N.T. Wright on  Paul’s letter to Philemon (there is both an audio and a video option–it’s just over 14 minutes long).  I just read Philemon a couple of times last week (it’s very short).  Afterwards I thought, “OK, Paul is embracing this former slave as a ...
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• Andrew Jackson on equality under the law and his veto of the recharter of the Bank of the United States

  
  Notable and Quotable... in the Classical Liberal tradition — Authority: 128
  It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions [but]... every man is equally entitled to ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Killing Birds Okay" -- (Re-Post with Video Added) Is That the Protected California Vulture? Just Asking

  
  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 452
  I am starting to turn against wind farms because they are in the way of migratory birds. We should stick with Nuclear. The key quote below is this: The bird death issue is complicated by the fact that commercially viable wind farms must be situated in areas where the wind blows as frequently and steadily ...
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• A Tale of Two philosophers: Tocqueville and Rousseau

  
  GM's Place.Com — Authority: 130
  A case can be made that the two French philosophers who have had the greatest impact on contemporary politics are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859). While Rousseau can be credited with being the philosopher most revered by the founders of the French Revolution – he was ...
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• Rigorous mathematics and Deductive Reasoning

  
  ibn ayyub — Authority: 118
  by Abdassamad Clarke Mathematics uses five main elements: definition, axiom, hypothesis, proof and theorem. Definitions are created to ensure that the terms and concepts being used in the arguments are clear. The axiom is a concept which is so obviously true one does not have to prove it; it is ’self-evident’. ...
  3 weeks ago

• estate tax: why dont the Dems get it?

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 120
  Charles Rangel has just announced (Oct 22, BNA Daily Tax RealTime) that he is putting together a draft of tax legislation that will make the current law on estate tax permanent--thats a law that provides a mere 45% flat rate on the taxable estate amount, which is the excess over the $3.5 million basic exemption (much ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ambulances for the Ample

  
  Human Nature — Authority: 119
  Everywhere you look, fat people are being charged extra. More for plane seats . More for health insurance . More, in the form of reduced incentive payouts, under proposals for  Medicare and Medicaid . Now, more for ambulance service. Weve talked about ambulances before. Along with toilets and coffins , theyre ...
  3 weeks ago

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