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For those with a Ph.D. a few simple brainteasers should prove no problem, however, even the most intelligent doctors might break a sweat trying to answer these. A fiendishly tricky new quiz devised shared by Playbuzz puts your problem-solving skills to the test in a series of head-scratching questions. According to the quiz’s creator only those with a Ph.D. will be able to score more than five out of the ten points available.  Those who do score highly are said to have an excellent memory, an extensive vocabulary, and a keen sense of observation.  Think you can score at least five out … Continue reading →

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Former CIA Director John Brennan has been hired as a paid contributor by NBC and MSNBC, the media company announced. He led the agency from 2013 to early 2017, under President Barack Obama. Brennan’s appointment comes amid the outcry over the memorandum released by House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-California) alleging impropriety by the FBI and DOJ while investigating claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election. That Brennan previously lied to an NBC journalist about the CIA’s attempts to thwart a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the agency’s use of torture was apparently no deterrent to his appointment. NEW: … Continue reading →

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The House Intelligence Committee Memo on possible FBI and Justice Department malfeasance relating mostly to the investigation of Donald Trump associate Carter Page is in some ways a bewildering document. As a former intelligence officer, the first thing I noticed was that the claim by Democrats on the Committee that the memo’s release amounted to “treason” and would compromise classified information does not hold water. I could identify nothing in the memo that was even plausibly damaging to national security, though it might be argued that writing down anything about the activity and operation of the FISA court is ipso facto a compromise of … Continue reading →

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You’re likely aware that I’m a libertarian. But I’m actually more than a libertarian. I don’t believe in the right of the State to exist. The reason is that anything that has a monopoly of force is extremely dangerous. As Mao Tse-tung, lately one of the world’s leading experts on government, said: “The power of the state comes out of a barrel of a gun.” There are two possible ways for people to relate to each other, either voluntarily or coercively. And the State is pure institutionalized coercion. It’s not just unnecessary, but antithetical, for a civilized society. And that’s … Continue reading →

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Two Freemasons’ lodges set up for members of parliament and political journalists are continuing to operate secretly at Westminster, the Guardian has learned. New Welcome Lodge, which recruits MPs, peers and parliamentary staff, and Gallery Lodge, established for members of the political press corps known as the lobby, both remain active, according to Freemasonry records. A third lodge called the Alfred Robbins Lodge, which was also set up for journalists, also continues to meet regularly in London. The identities of the members of these three lodges remain unknown outside the world of Freemasonry, however, and so discreet are the members … Continue reading →

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For well over a century, the Left has generally been conceded to have morality, justice, and “idealism” on its side; the Conservative opposition to the Left has largely been confined to the “impracticality” of its ideals. A common view, for example, is that socialism is splendid “in theory,” but that it cannot “work” in practical life. What the Conservatives failed to see is that while short-run gains can indeed be made by appealing to the impracticality of radical departures from the status quo, that by conceding the ethical and the “ideal” to the Left they were doomed to long-run defeat. For … Continue reading →

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Wait until the open borders types get their hands on this one.  Watch the venom and vitriol start to fly. Which country would do such a dastardly deed?  Is it the United States?  No.  Is it Germany?  Nein.  Sweden?  Nej.  France?  Non. Israel has started issuing deportation notices to African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. Woops.  This might be a problem. The 20,000 people who are not held in the country’s open detention facility will be expected to leave within 60 days, or risk being imprisoned indefinitely. Twenty-thousand?  That’s it?  Israel can’t even absorb 20,000 refugees?  Don’t they understand the value of cultural diversity, the economic gains, the liberty of those seeking asylum? … Continue reading →

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Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA that have run the government, just like in countries governed by military dictatorships. Oh sure, the façade is maintained — the façade that is ingrained in all of us in civics or government classes in high school and college: that the federal government is composed of three co-equal, … Continue reading →

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