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Current Affairs
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Current Affairs, Money & Economy
Bring on the in vitro meat!
CNN reports that PETA has offered $1 million for viable laboratory chicken Sure, it’s lab-created, but the taste and texture are what really matter, right? Bring on the Soylent Green!
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Current Affairs, News/Misc, Language
Writing the news before it happens
Robert Novak, in his syndicated column notes the following rather ominously:
The expense of such an intervention is not a problem because the Fed, unlike the president and Congress, can print money. The Bear Stearns bailout, approved in private by unelected officials, contributes to paranoid grievances on the left and right that built support for Ron […] -
Current Affairs, Politics
Whiners Playbook
In typical po-mo style, John McCain sounded off today on Mitt Romney’s Dole comments. It’s an example of McCain borrowing the American Whiners playbook and calling Wrongheaded Moral Outrage on 2, on 2.
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Current Affairs, Consumerism
What Ethanol Subsidies Really Are
“Welfare checks for government moonshine.”
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Current Affairs
The Bloated Vice Presidency
John Derbyshire on the vice president’s ever-expanding office, and why such corpulence cries out for a Doctor (Paul).
