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Justice

Let’s just hope that the justice meted out in Baghdad to those who violated the Geneva Convention governing the treatment of prisoners is clear, public, and unequivocal. (And, yes, the…

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Twenty Years of promoting Competitive Enterprise

I had the privilege this evening of attending the twentieth anniversary gala dinner for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. I’ve known Fred Smith, CEI’s founder and president, for a long time….

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Troy

I suppose that I’ll try to see the new movie based loosely on some old poem by Homer, who starred in The Simpsons. A colleague who saw the film panned…

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The French Can Be So Hateful….

The hateful mistreatment of the purely innocent children of German soldiers in France is documented in a new book, Enfants maudits, by Jean-Paul Picaper and Ludwig Norz. How nasty and…

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Marriage….it’s become such a “Gay Thing”

Tomorrow will be the day that the first legally recognized and legally equal gay marriages take place. What a great day! It’s been a very controversial issue, of course, and…

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Marriage….it’s become such a “Gay Thing”

Tomorrow will be the day that the first legally recognized and legally equal gay marriages take place. What a great day! It’s been a very controversial issue, of course, and…

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Marriage….it’s become such a “Gay Thing”

Tomorrow will be the day that the first legally recognized and legally equal gay marriages take place. What a great day! It’s been a very controversial issue, of course, and…

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Marriage….it’s become such a “Gay Thing”

Tomorrow will be the day that the first legally recognized and legally equal gay marriages take place. What a great day! It’s been a very controversial issue, of course, and…

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I Can See! Thank you, John Wahl.

I am extremely happy with the results of my Lasik surgery. I feel liberated from eyeglasses and contact lenses. My friend John Wahl, who’s an eye surgeon, did the work…

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New Eyesight

I’m off tomorrow to have my eyes worked on with Lasik. I may still have to have reading glasses (damn!), but I hope to be free of the glasses and…

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