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I don't really care about happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle, And a very happy start.

People love simple and preposterous lies.  They much prefer them to the truth.  Truth is elusive. Difficult to discover. Infinitely nuanced....

Bitcoin is not money but rather a new way of employing existent money in transactions by Frank Shostak Many economists and financial ...

Among the Western chattering classes, ‘the Zionist’ has replaced 'the Jew' as the cause of the world's ills by Tom Bailey  ...

Too-big-to-fail isn’t merely an economic problem   By Jonathan Weil To grow up in South Florida during the 1970s and 1980s, as I did, ...

Bipartisanship Is Behind Government's Worst Programs By GEORGE F. WILL Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresse...

The U.S. tax code is more progressive and European than you think By Veronique de Rugy  Americans often tout the contrast between the b...

Evolution, creationism and government By Thomas Sowell How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell ...

Obama And The Commanding Heights By Joseph Y. Calhoun We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United Stat...

The History of “Underdevelopment” Underdevelopment Theories Have Generated Disastrous Policies By Stephen Davies Perhaps the most im...

Dangerous Historical Myths By Stephen Davies One of the most powerful influences on human affairs is historical  myth—beliefs about the ...

Getting the rioters to do their dirty work The   Guardian’s study of the August riots is pure advocacy research, designed to harness th...

Paragraph of the Year From  Reihan Salam : To really learn from the Chinese, and to enjoy such staggering growth rates, we should go...

The Death Of Global Warming Skepticism, Or The Birth Of Straw Men? By J. Taylor The mainstream media has been spiking the football i...

Math vs. Myth By M.Tanner There is no austerity, only more uncontrolled spending. I t is a medical truism that if you get the diagnos...