Saturday, February 26, 2005

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ANTHROPOLOGY: FRAUD-PRONE I spent my entire academic career teaching in university departments that offered anthropology courses so I thi...

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ELSEWHERE That "Cowboy capitalism" again : "The economy grew at a solid 3.8 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 2004 ...
Friday, February 25, 2005

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ONE AMERICAN LEFTIST FINALLY GETS IT (MORE OR LESS) Martin Peretz , a moderate American Leftist, has some remarkably perceptive comments on ...

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ELSEWHERE A victory for free speech : Under the threat of legal action, the University of Nevada has blinked in its year-long confrontation...
Thursday, February 24, 2005

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FROM BROOKES NEWS The New York Times economic midget - and he is a conservative America's true national debt owed outside of governmen...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

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THE "GANNON" BEAT-UP Another good comment on the disgusting Left from Powerline : "The American left has been guilty of many...

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ELSEWHERE John Howard's smart move : "Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has welcomed Australia's decision to dispatch ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

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TUESDAY ROUNDUP Once again I pick out what I think are my best posts for the week: On Dissecting Leftism I question the "gay gene...

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ELSEWHERE Bush-hating Jonathan Chait has come up with another lulu : "Liberalism's aversion to dogma makes it superior as a pra...
Monday, February 21, 2005

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REGULATION ROBBERY What would you do with an extra $8,000 this year? Pay off your credit card debt? Fully fund your 2004 and 2005 I.R.A.? Ma...

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ELSEWHERE Good comment from Bill Vallicella : "It is difficult to get lefties to appreciate the moral equivalence of the two totalitar...
Sunday, February 20, 2005

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GAY GENE OR GAY VIRUS? There's a VERY interesting interview with an expert in population biology, Gregory Cochran, here on the subject ...

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ELSEWHERE This report by Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California -- saying that the recent small r...
Saturday, February 19, 2005

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EXHIBITIONISTS GET MORE THAN THEY BARGAIN FOR Lots of people like this news item: "When 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the Internatio...
Friday, February 18, 2005

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CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHER SCRUTON ON THE BRITISH LAW AGAINST HUNTING The hunting Act vindictive in its aim and discriminatory in its effec...

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ELSEWHERE Good to hear : "Contending that Americans benefit from free trade, President Bush said Thursday he would keep pursuing libe...
Thursday, February 17, 2005

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NATIONAL SOCIALISM (NAZISM) REBORN IN SOUTH AMERICA While President Bush's sweeping vision of worldwide democracy was never more vividly...

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ELSEWHERE I am sorry to hear that Sam Francis has just passed away after heart surgery. I did not agree with everything he wrote but he wa...