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• A long, long trip with Bon Jovi

  
  Blog Obispo — Authority: 137
  Musical Memoirs Goes Does Cleveland On a Fake IDBy the fifth time I heard “You Give Love A Bad Name,” I wanted to tear my ears off and stomp on them. By the seventh, thoughts of murder surfaced.But it was a free trip, I kept reminding myself. To beautiful Cleveland.We were driving somewhere near Mansfield — ...
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• Asia-Pacific ministers warn economic crisis not over

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Singapore, Nov 11 (DPA) Ministers of the Asia-Pacific economies Wednesday warned that the global economic crisis was not yet over, saying the situation was still fragile despite the current upturn.“The consensus is that this (crisis) is by no means over,” said Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo after hosting a ...
  3 days ago

• Fallacies offer cold comfort for cognitive dissonance

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 131
  “Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.” ~ Mark Twain Twain’s wisdom came to mind as I read a recent article by new Dispatch columnist John Larson (another new club member; welcome!) about medical marijuana dispensaries. Near as I can tell, Larson ...
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• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 3: Hyperbolic Discounting

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 494
  by Glen Whitman New paternalists often rely on the phenomenon of “hyperbolic discounting” to justify their policies. Hyperbolic discounting is difficult to define in a non-mathematical way. It is sometimes summarized as excessive impatience, but that’s an over-simplification. A person with a high-but-consistent ...
  4 days ago

• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 3: Hyperbolic Discounting

  
  Agoraphilia — Authority: 448
  New paternalists often rely on the phenomenon of “hyperbolic discounting” to justify their policies. Hyperbolic discounting is difficult to define in a non-mathematical way. It is sometimes summarized as excessive impatience, but that’s an over-simplification. A person with a high-but-consistent rate of time ...
  4 days ago

• Herbal Medicine Cabinet

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 142
  One of the world’s top herbal authorities advises us on how to get the most out of natural remedies ranging from aloe vera and ginger to slippery elm and elderberry.
  4 days ago

• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 2: How New Paternalism Creates Gradients

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 494
  A key conclusion of the literature on slippery slopes is that they are especially likely in the presence of gradients — meaning situations in which there is a relatively smooth continuum from one policy to another, and in which it is difficult to draw sharp distinctions. Gradients don’t guarantee slippery slope ...
  5 days ago

• The Slippery Slope Goes Vertical

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  In the Obama era, the slippery slope has gone vertical. Instead of “eventually,” the feared extensions of government power come immediately. When President Obama decided to convert George W. Bush’s bailout of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler L.L.C. into effective government ownership, critics warned that this ...
  6 days ago

• Sliding or Plummeting toward Statism?

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 427
  David Boaz in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer : “ When government slippery slope goes vertical “
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• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 2: How New Paternalism Creates Gradients

  
  Agoraphilia — Authority: 448
  A key conclusion of the literature on slippery slopes is that they are especially likely in the presence of gradients -- meaning situations in which there is a relatively smooth continuum from one policy to another, and in which it is difficult to draw sharp distinctions. Gradients don’t guarantee slippery slope ...
  1 week ago

• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 1

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 494
  by Glen Whitman As Mario has already announced , we’ve just published a new article , “Little Brother Is Watching You: New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes,” in Arizona Law Review. You can find the full text here . The article is quite long. As a result, I expect few people will read the whole thing. ...
  1 week ago

• Multiplying Wives

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 153
  Ive been thinking about polygamy lately. Not in the sense where I want to take it up as a hobby, but in the sense where I sit naked in the snow and hemmmmm about it as a concept. This isnt the first time - it probably came up as far back as my early teen years.
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• Pixel-Shack » There Are Paintball Landmines Now

  
  PaintballLifestyle - Paintball's #1 Free eMagazine! — Authority: 148
  The next logical step would be paintball LMGs affixed to mounts on the perimeter of your paintball base. I told a friend about these, and he already knew about them. He said that they were bad ass. I’ll just have to take his word for …
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• On This Day In History

  
  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome — Authority: 750
  In 1955, Doctor Emmet Lathrop Brown was standing on a toilet hanging a wall clock when he slipped and beat his head on the bathroom sink . Unconscious, Doc had a vision. And that vision was that of a flux capacitor -- the device that makes time travel possible. The rest, my friends, is history. Or should ...
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• Rizzo Tees has definitely found a way to sell me a T-shirt... :)

  
  heaven is...a beer volcano and a stripper factory — Authority: 130
  Yes...I am a pig. I do love bacon. And girls dressed in bacon. :) Order yours here . :/ I must be getting old...cause now Im thinking about that uncooked bacon being on her goodies like that...wonder if that could cause Trichnosis. :)
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• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 1

  
  Agoraphilia — Authority: 448
  Mario Rizzo and I have just published a new article, "Little Brother Is Watching You: New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes," in Arizona Law Review. You can find the full text here . Regular readers (if I still have any) will know Ive written a great deal about the new paternalism. Just click on the subject tag ...
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• Remember, Remember the Fifth of November!!

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 549
  “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence Originally published November 3, 2009 at  http://towneforcongress.com/economy/remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november-2 ...
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• Kang or Kodos

  
  The NonSequitur — Authority: 122
  Normally the slippery-slope style argument predicts (sometimes but not always fallaciously) a kind of political or moral disaster if a certain kind of thing is allowed.  For this reason I sometimes wonder whether such an argument should be called "argument from permissiveness."  For, if we permit gay marriage, then ...
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• The slippery standards of Mr Key

  
  The Standard — Authority: 603
  Yesterday, John Key cleverly tried to reframe his ministers’ failure to obey his standards on use of perks: “You don’t want 120 Members of Parliament who have the financial independence to be able to make the financial decisions that I make. “It wouldn’t be the House of Representatives, we need people ...
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• ATV Trailers for Sale

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  Call Now : 1-800-611-4379ALL STEEL CONSTRUCTIONStandard, the all steel construction, of our trailers provides a stronger more durable trailer than aluminum, which may bend or break. Our trailers are made of heavy duty thick gauge tube steel. You will be hauling around 400-800 pound ATVs and our reinforced steel ...
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