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Article: “Nuclear Energy: Risky Business,” by Jerry Taylor in Reason Magazine
Nuclear energy is to the Right what solar energy is to the Left: Religious devotion in practice, a wonderful technology in theory, but an economic white elephant in fact (some crossovers on both sides notwithstanding). When the day comes that the electricity from solar or […]
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Over at Economist.com, they’ve just kicked off a debate on the resolution “that individuals, not the state, should pay for higher education.”
On Monday, they will post my “featured guest” statement on the resolution in question, so I can’t give away my exciting conclusions right now. I can, though, give you a hint about one thing […]
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The good folks at the Flex Your Rights Foundation have produced a Citizen’s Guide to Refusing DC Metro Searches.
A timely response to news that there would be random searches, which is poor counterterrorism.
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The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reports:
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has taken steps to make it easier for U.S. intelligence agencies to recruit first-generation Americans with foreign relatives.
The story, first broken by Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, is likely to be overlooked given the focus on the campaign and on the […]
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Back in September, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service became a punchline after issuing 3.5 million duck stamps with the wrong phone number. But it wasn’t just any ordinary wrong number. Unassuming callers who were “lucky” enough to dial it were invited to “talk only to the girls that turn you on” for $1.99 […]
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“There’s no logical end to it,” Cato Senior Fellow Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. said to Neil Cavuto on Fox Business. He’s talking about the incredible expanding bailouts. It started with Bear Stearns in March and then homebuilders in April. Then Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September, and after that the deluge. AIG, announced at […]
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Nice health care lecture
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