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A Milestone

October 30, 2008

This is my 1,000th blog post.
Rather than contribute a thoughtful post and ruin the moment, this is what you get.
A thousand, really? That’s a lot of blogging over the past few year, but I don’t have any intention of stopping anytime soon. I’ve got 50-odd unfinished drafts, some have languished long enough [...]

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I Can Do Whatever I Want!

October 30, 2008

Says the police officer who put a Newark CBS affiliate’s company cameraman in a handcuffs and a chokehold (allegedly). The cameraman’s offense? Refusing to put down his camera.

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Socialism: Here, There, Everywhere (Part 2)

October 30, 2008

Germany is not alone in the rush to embrace socialism. France does too.
This should come as no suprise to anyone, from a country with stifling labor legislation, quasi-legal segregation, high unemployment rates (even higher among minorities). As I’ve blogged previously, France’s right to work laws are a joke:

With an unemployment rate [...]

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Socialism: Here, There, Everywhere

October 29, 2008

When free markets fail (allegedly), all anyone ever wants is socialism, which is really funny, because when socialism fails, as it has everywhere it’s ever been tried, all anyone ever wants is even more socialism. There has got to be a name for this mental deficiency.
Anyways, while the U.S. is grappling over which form [...]

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