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What Darwin Can Teach Us About the Economy
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| To help America evolve again, we should start by letting failing businesses fail, preserving the opportunity for new solutions to emerge. We should reduce the tax and regulatory burdens on entrepreneurs, freeing them to introduce new variations into the marketplace. We should cut business and personal taxes across the board, freeing the American people to make more choices and do more with their money. |
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Ten Reasons Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons
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| A shocking list of the ten reasons public schools are like prisons with assistance from Justin Hartfield of the Prometheus Institute. |
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The Political Failures of the Baby Boomers, and the Challenges for the Next Generation
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| The Boomers' failures are distributed uniformly from Right to Left. But given the liberal-leaning Boomers' original rise from the 1960s counterculture, their weak-kneed absorption into the partisan political establishment is most ironic. The generation that fought for free speech and the right to question authority now enforces strict political correctness and quashes political dissent from their tenured posts in academia.
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Who Wants to be an Enemy Combatant?
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| The Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the writ of habeas corpus applied to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The case was the first extension of habeas corpus - a legal tool to challenge the legality of one's imprisonment or detention - to aliens detained on foreign soil. |
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The Fair and Balanced Myth - Three Reasons Why Media Bias Doesn't Matter
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| In a world of 6 billion people and only a limited amount of time and space for the media to tell you what has happened to them in a single day, something's obviously going to miss the final cut. The decision of what's Newsworthy varies greatly according to the personal opinions of the audience. If you're liberal, you want to hear about starving Darfuri children and Hugo Chavez' latest economic proposal. If you're conservative, you want to hear about the latest terrorist raid in Pakistan and global market trends. |
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