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Stealing Legacies
Imagine you own a motel in some major metropolitan area.
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Nuclear Reality
A mere four years after the morons who ran my home state shuttered the Indian Point nuclear plant, because global warming climate change climate…
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About Those Bunker Busters
Two days ago, American bombers attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran.
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The Migrant Quandary
Who would have thought that the biggest wedge issue in 21st century American politics would be illegal immigration?
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Charity And Opportunity Cost
Paul David Hewson, more commonly known as Bono, is a staunch advocate for global charity when he's not singing with his bandmates.
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Green Butterflies
A couple decades back, a branch of mathematics called Chaos Theory got its fifteen minutes of fame in popular culture, with the phrase "The Butterfly…
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Choosing Misery
Human nature is a fickle master.
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The Forgotten
Unless you've been living in an isolated cabin west of nowhere the past couple decades, you have certainly noticed the frenzied identity essentialism…
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Free Speech and Flag Burning, Revisited
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
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Reinforcing Trumpism
Given the break-neck speed that Trump and his administration have been acting since he took office in January, it's easy to forget that his current term…
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Blah Blah Blah
Nick Freitas, a former Virginia state legislator and current Internet content creator, offered an interesting take on Congressional Republicans…
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Incentives Matter
In times of yore, when the word "libertarian" wasn't commonly known or understood, we who pinned that badge on our lapels would explain that we are…
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