Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles

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Child Support Fraud

Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks on Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day: For Torrance photographer Taron James, a decorated veteran of Operation Northern Watch, Veterans Day always brings mixed emotions. James...

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Taking The Neo-Cons To Task

My favorite retired USAF lieutenant colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski of LRC on Of Mice And Men: Justin Raimondo’s precise, clear and accurate description of neoconservativism as "an authoritarian power cult" is both encouraging and exciting....

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Veterans News

Military and veterans stories from yesterday's Christian Science Monitor: Gail Russell Chaddock on A new focus on veterans' benefits With the Iraq occupation highlighting the devotion of US troops – and the dangers they...

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Cut It Out Ya’ll

Well. Someone landed at my blog today via the following Google search: Interracial voice hates black culture. WTF? Over. Now, the sentiments expressed in that particular string of words above may or may not...

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Government Thievery

Radley Balko writing for Tech Central Station on We're From the Government and We're Here to Help: Dan Peruchi, father of four, enjoyed fixing up old cars and reselling them. Because the dealers he...

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Passing Through – Maybe Not

Gabriel Gasave of the Independent Institute on Imposing Transit Visas: Just Another Low-Flying Idea? Late this past summer, the U.S. government announced the temporary suspension of two programs that allowed certain international air passengers...

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Amazon Innovation

Steven Johnson of Slate on The Best Search Idea Since Google: How Amazon can make money from books you already own. Amazon.com's announcement this week of its new "search inside" feature—allowing full-text searches of...

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Cooking, Old School

CBC News on Researchers dig up earliest 'butcher shop' Anthropologists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest direct evidence of a stone tool "kitchen," dating back 2.6 million years. The stone tools were...