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Deep thoughts on sin taxes & tobacco bans
Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:11 PM EST
1. Banning flavored cigarettes has only led to more people purchasing flavored mini-cigars and super-healthy cloves. Increased taxes on cigarette tobacco have led to more people buying pipe tobacco for their roll-your-owns.
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On Safety Nets
Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
"By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we allow liberals and progressives to shape those policies in ways that are inefficient, ineffective, and overbroad – even though Adam Smith, Hayek himself, and Friedman each advocated for …
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two thoughts on sarah palin
Tue Jul 7, 2009 4:46 PM EDT
I personally don't care about Sarah Palin's views on social issues, or that she hunted wolves from a helicopter (whether or not I would do the same or share an opinion on said social-issues).
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The Big Tent
Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:08 PM EDT
So one thing I've been thinking about lately is how dissident conservatives - of either the reformist or the paleo stripe (or those reformopaleo hybrid types) - dialogue with movement conservatives and with each other, and how, in the long run, it's going to be a truce - not a vi …
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George Tiller
Tue Jun 2, 2009 11:37 AM EDT
"It is out of characterfor the left to neglect the weak and helpless. The traditional mark of the left has been its protection of the underdog, the weak and the poor.
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continuity and the culture of death
Thu May 28, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
1 a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings c: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and rep …
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Yesterday
Tue May 26, 2009 11:39 AM EDT
cross-posted in similar form at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
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Angels & Demons
Tue May 19, 2009 1:01 PM EDT
I read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons several years ago. I liked some of the puzzles, and the mystery and suspense were gripping enough, but at the end of the day Brown's prose makes Stephen King look like Oscar Wilde. If I want a good page-turner I'll pick up a Grisham novel.
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an ocean full of paper boats
Mon May 18, 2009 4:35 PM EDT
"I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals.
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State of Print
Mon May 4, 2009 12:23 PM EDT
Resting at the heart of State of Play (2009) is not so much the personal relationships of the characters - who are mostly forgettable save for Crowe's Cal McAffrey - or the grand (and oddly relevant) political conspiracy involving the Blackwater imitator PointCorp, but rather th …
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pacifism and the culture wars
Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:03 AM EDT
"Saving" marriage obviously means objecting to gay-marriage. But what does this have to do with abortion? Can someone please explain to me what on earth King means? Seriously, I have no idea.
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A Ghost on Aspen Street
Thu Apr 2, 2009 5:55 PM EDT
I was out drinking beers with a friend last night, sitting on the patio of a local brewery in the cold April air and waxing poetic about the many pleasures of living in a mid-sized city with lots of good local culture and a downtown that is thriving and healthy and non-corporate.
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Redefining Prosperity
Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:22 PM EDT
The modern conservative movement is built upon a paradox. Indeed, both Parties in the United States system - and there are functionally only two - have long preached basically the same message.
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Grow Your Own?
Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:51 AM EST
Regarding the "grow your own policy" Mark Kleiman proposes, I have to say this is a very misguided approach.
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Balance Sheet Recession
Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:13 PM EST
So I was listening to NPR this morning and a Japanese economist was talking about their "lost decade" and chalked it up to what he termed "balance sheet recession." Basically, too many people had too much debt, and when all these bad assets appeared, everyone scrambled to get …
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Reflections
Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:21 PM EST
Sometimes I'm overwhelmed with this sense that all of this is an exercise in futility - that there is simply too much to know, too much I don't know, too much I don't or can't understand.
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God keep our land....
Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:31 PM EST
I lived in Vancouver, BC for two years and honeymooned there years later, but the extent of my knowledge in regards to Canada is limited mainly to such trivial (yet ironically important) matters as its rather bad selection of mixed drinks (do Canadians drink anything other than m …
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Of Maus and Men
Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:55 PM EST
Last night, which happened to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I attended a lecture by Pulitzer prize winning comic book artist (or graphic novelist) Art Spiegelman.
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End Pot Prohibition, but Keep Hard Drugs Illegal
Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:58 PM EST
Recently Culture11 held a mini-symposium on the drug legalization debate. (Read this, this, and this). I've got a stance that lies somewhere between the libertarian and the law & order types.
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A Hypothetical Gaza
Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:46 PM EST
Stephen Walt has spurred much conversation and controversy with his hypothetical in which the Arabs win the 6-day-war and drive the Jews into Gaza where they are conversely oppressed until: ...a group of hardline Orthodox Jews took over control of that territory and organized a r …
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The commercialization of the Lord of the Rings (part 1)
Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:38 PM EST
I first read Tolkien's masterpiece when I was nine. It was the third epic fantasy I had read, C.S. Lewis's Narnia having been the first; Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles the second. I had also consumed many Arthurian legends and other mythical tales.
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American Rail
Fri Jan 9, 2009 11:33 PM EST
Shortly after my 21st birthday I purchased an Amtrak ticket to Denver, packed up my bags, and headed off to meet a girl (now my wife). It was all very romantic, save for the hangover I carried along with me that early July morning. It was also very comfortable.
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More thoughts on public schools
Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:19 PM EST
This is intended as a further discussion on this piece. There are two huge problems with public schools that must somehow be remedied:
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The Engine of the Republic
Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:41 AM EST
The American tradition of public school is almost as old as the Union itself. The first major proponent of a strong public school system was Thomas Jefferson, who believed that in order for a Republic to function its populace must have at least a rudimentary education.
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Of Salt and Cinders
Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:43 PM EST
The no-salt policy in Seattle is bad news for drivers, businesses, and preservation of human life in general. I work in transportation in my real life, and I can tell you that shipping into Seattle right now is nearly impossible.
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