Bosnia Revisited August 6, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa VIENNA—As I look at “The Kiss,” Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s delicate masterpiece, in one of Vienna’s Belvedere palaces, my head fills with the memories […]
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Politicians, Voters Pillage Set-Aside Funds to Plug Budget Gaps August 4, 2008Michael Reksulak Mirroring a $534 million shortfall in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 2008-09 proposed budget for Los Angeles, planned expenditures for […]
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We Don’t Need a War on Terrorism August 1, 2008Ivan Eland Many opponents of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have always argued that this conflict is an irrelevant […]
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Lee McGuire of KHOU-TV News on "Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV": Paul and his team have zeroed in on a section of a key protein in […]
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The Ladies in White July 30, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa PRAGUE—A few days before I arrived in Prague, I participated in a Web conference with the Ladies in White, the relatives of […]
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As I've begun to unravel the tight ball of emotions related to my rape, I've been given a lot of advice, some good and some bad. Most of it is […]
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The Net Effect of Minimum Wage July 29, 2008Art Carden Last week, the federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 per hour to $6.55 per hour. While some are celebrating the change […]
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Did the Surge Work? July 28, 2008Ivan Eland The media, egged on by John McCain and his campaign, are going to twist the arm of Barack Obama until he cries […]
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Another excellent posting from Cara at The Curvature on Explaining Rape : The crime of rape is the imposition on another person’s body. The crime of rape is taking away […]
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CENTCOM’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony July 22, 2008Robert Higgs Many people deny that the U.S. government presides over a global empire. If you speak of U.S. imperialism, they […]
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