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• Selling Votes

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 648
  Why aren’t citizens allowed to sell their votes to the highest bidder? (Bear with me for a minute.) You may at first be inclined to say that it’s like the stricture against selling yourself into slavery: we don’t let citizens strip themselves of the most basic political rights and liberties. But I’m not ...
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• “What The Republican ‘Establishment’ Really Means”

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 527
  Tweet This Post A magisterial post by Baseball Crank (via Rand Simberg ): There is general philosophical agreement among both Republicans and conservatives about all of this. Where the fault line lies is in exactly how far we are willing to go to do something about it. Many people who got into politics as ...
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• Margaret Thatcher on Income Inequality

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 527
  Tweet This Post This video clip has appeared on other blogs but it’s worth posting again.     How fortunate the world was to have had both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in office at the same time.  
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• Paul In National Polls

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 112
  January 16th, 2012 : If the November election were held today, a CNN/ORC International Poll released Monday shows Ron Paul is almost statistically tied with Obama, with the president at 48% and the longtime congressman at 46%. The CNN/ORC International poll has Obama beating Paul by a slim 48%-46% margin, but ...
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• Google Joins Online SOPA Protest

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 114
  WASHINGTON -- Google will join thousands of tech activists, entrepreneurs and corporations on Wednesday in protesting the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act , a controversial bill that has generated national outrage among Internet experts. On Wednesday, more than 7,000 websites are expected to voluntarily "go dark," ...
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• GOP Crowd Boos The Golden Rule

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 114
  
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• Freedom Left and Right

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 747
  By David Boaz The Sunday Washington papers carried several dire reports about the state of freedom in America. Funny thing is, they didn’t much agree on what kinds of freedoms are being lost. In the Washington Post , law professor Jonathan Turley warned : In the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, this country has ...
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• Martin Luther King Day 2012

  
  James' Thoughts and Musings — Authority: 118
  For my post today on Martin Luther King, Jr., I will use as my starting-point something that David Marshall says on pages 113-114 of True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture : “American magazines like Time and Atlantic Monthly have followed the lead of these [skeptical] scholars with cover ...
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• Colbert Super Pacs Romney Attack Ad

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 114
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• Because of Che Guevara, Mercedes-Benz Apologizes

  
  Carsanjay Automotive — Authority: 109
  Because it uses the figure of the Latin American revolutionary hero, Che Guevara , Mercedes-Benz had to apologize. As a capitalist company, Mercedes-Benz has a limited unconscious with figures like Che Guevara is communist. In a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show about the technological revolution that ...
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• Towards a 21-hour working week?

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 648
  Last Wednesday I attended an event at LSE (under the auspices of the New Economics Foundation) exploring the idea of working-time reduction with an eventual goal of moving to a normal working week of 21 hours. Various people asked me to write up the event, so that’s what I’m doing, though I claim no special ...
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• “Green Energy,” Crony Capitalism, and Nicholas Nickleby

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 527
  Tweet This Post …an interesting piece here .
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• Avoiding the pitfalls of Service-Learning

  
  In Socrates' Wake — Authority: 405
  I recently finished reading the manuscript of Meira Levinson’swonderful book No Citizen Left Behind. I highly recommend it to anyoneinterested in K-12 education, equal opportunity, and the achievement gap. Inone chapter, Levinson takes issue with service-learning because she thinks thatit is often couched as a ...
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• I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

  
  Shakesville — Authority: 492
  There is a lot of news about Mitt Romney today. Trust me when I tell you that you dont want to read about it any more than I want to write about it. Here is my Executive Summary: Mitt Romney is a garbage candidate with a garbage ideology and he should never be president, under any circumstances, but especially not ...
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• What Tebowism Really Tells Us

  
  Dana Blankenhorn — Authority: 105
  Think of this as Volume 16, Number 2 of A-Clue.com , the online newsletter Ive written since 1997. Enjoy. Its one of the ironies of our political cycles that a decisive turn is often followed by the other sides capture of the culture. Think about it. The South and the “Lost Cause” were culturally ...
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• Seeing Things Plain

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 527
  Tweet This Post Richard Fernandez : There will always be those who’d like to abstract the candy from the candy store. But it is the shopkeeper’s responsibility to keep that from happening. Conservatives cannot simply hope that progressives will behave themselves. Boys will be boys and progressives will be ...
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• A Conservative Problem

  
  Shakesville — Authority: 128
  Via STFU, Conservatives , below is a video (with transcript) of Mitt Romney on the campaign trail during the last election, being confronted by a man with muscular dystrophy about his rigid position on medical marijuana. And not just rigid: Its a bullshit position, because Romney, like lots of people, asserts that ...
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• Capital Confusions over Bain Capital

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 747
  By Roger Pilon Today POLITICO Arena asks: Are Romney’s GOP rivals smart to continue their attacks on capitalism that have so far fallen flat? Would this theme be any more effective for the Obama campaign? My response: The Gingrich and Perry attacks on Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital are appalling. We ...
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• On “Leverages”

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 527
  Tweet This Post In a previous post, I asked a question about leverages in terms of foreign policy: A key–an essential–question on leverages at Abu Muqawama (Dr. Andrew Exum): Where things get tricky is when one tries to decide what to do about that. The principle problem is one that has been in my head ...
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• Recent Roads To Ruin?

  
  Crooked Timber — Authority: 648
  Several years ago I read – and posted about – a book I quite enjoyed: Roads To Ruin, The Shocking History of Social Reform (1950), by E.S. Turner. (Reasonably inexpensive used copies available from all likely sources.) It’s basically a survey of forgotten British moral panics of the 19th and early 20th ...
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