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Apathy, Taxes and Bailouts

September 22, 2008

Probably the single, worst argument I’ve heard, not to get upset about the bailouts:

As much as I find the recent government bailouts revolting, I can’t get as outraged as some. They’re not using my money. Any money that came from me stopped being mine on April 15th.

Tillman’s post seems to make a great deal of [...]

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Illegal Immigration

May 2, 2008

For the better part of American history, there were quite simply, no immigration laws. And the land survived wave after wave of immigrants, from the dastardly Germans, to the drunken Irish, to the opiated Chinese. As I previously analyzed immigration,
From 1800 through 2000, the population of the United States increased 51-fold! During [...]

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What is Your Obligation to Your Lender?

March 25, 2008

Initially I was going to include this in the next issue of “Comments on Comments,” but it’s awfully long, and despite having recently posted a handful of thought-provoking posts (at least, IMO) in the last week or so, the comments have been few and far between. I didn’t want to let this wait any [...]

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Kwame’s Rant

March 12, 2008

King Kwame is back at it again, ruining last night’s “State of the City Address” with an unscripted tirade, complete with the “n-word.”
In reference to the ongoing train-wreck that is Kwame’s mayoral résumé, (e.g., the recent sex-with-his-top-aide-scandal, the misappropriation of public funds, new developments in the dead-stripper allegations…) he says,
This unethical, illegal lynch mob [...]

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