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In addition to this being Memorial Day, the month of May is Military Appreciation Month. This follows Month of the Military Child in April. Upcoming in November is Month of the Military Family. I suppose that soon enough every month will be designed something related to the military. I didn’t celebrate Military Appreciation Month. I didn’t read President Obama’s proclamation. I didn’t thank any soldiers for their service. I didn’t knowingly shake the hand of anyone in the military. I didn’t visit anyone in a VA hospital. I didn’t visit a war monument or memorial. I didn’t visit a military … Continue reading →

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MILLIONS of adults are unable to answer questions on a GCSE maths paper designed for 15-year-olds, are you one of them? When parents attempted to answer a sample GCSE paper, around 40 per cent gave the wrong answers. Take the five-question test below and see how you do, the answers will be revealed further down. Question one An ordinary, fair dice is rolled 420 times. How many times is the number 3 expected? a) 140 b) 210 c) 70 Question two 50 raffle tickets are sold for 25p each. The winning ticket is picked at random. Linda buys 14 tickets. … Continue reading →

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Beggar, thief, or trader? The choices are narrowing. Guest Post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic There are three ways for a person to obtain something of value from another person: receive it as a donation, steal it by force or fraud, or exchange for it. It’s not much of an oversimplification to say that the advance of civilization has hinged on its movement from the first two methods to the third. The right to exchange, and the right to promise as part of a future exchange—the right to contract—are now taken for granted, but those rights are delicate … Continue reading →

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Many Americans will be firing up the grill over the next few days in honor of Memorial Day weekend. This age-old human tradition of cooking meat with fire is said to have started by our ancestors one million years ago. What was once done with twigs, has evolved into a science that requires the perfect temperature, right humidity, and different cooking techniques in order to cook up a juicy piece of meat. The first discovery of using fire to cook meat was unearthed in 2012. Archaeologists discovered evidence of burned bones and plant ash inside Wonderwreck Cave in South Africa, … Continue reading →

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In my forthcoming (July 18) book, The Problem with Socialism, I describe how socialism is always and everywhere an economic poison regardless of the form of government.  Socialism is socialism.  As Frederic Bastiat explained in his classic, The Law, the imposition of one social “plan” or set of “plans” on all of the society – a defining characteristic of all varieties of socialism — will have the same effects whether it is instituted by democracy or by a dictatorship.  Obamacare is Obamacare regardless of whether it was imposed by democracy or by a dictator. All of history has proven that … Continue reading →

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Our interview with Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal blew up the Internet this week. I’ve appeared on Greg Gutfeld’s show as well as Red Eye, Dana, The Buck Sexton Show, and even Alex Jones’ Infowars. Virtually every major news source has written about it and the American press seems to get it right the most. The New York Post called the PC police “cowards” and asked, “who wants to listen only to music that has been OK’d by a bunch of spineless liberals and their culture of censorship?” At the other end of the spectrum, we have U.K.’s … Continue reading →

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