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  • Innocuous Names Shield Groups From Criticism

    Innocuous Names Shield Groups From Criticism0

    During a recent conversation, a friend of mine hit upon something which, while instinctively knowing it, I had never heard verbalized. To paraphrase his observation, “All the progressive groups intentionally pick a name you can’t argue against without being labeled a bad person.” In essence, a basic pre-requisite for a successful progressive organization seems to

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  • Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography

    Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography0

    Though I’ve practiced several vices in my time, pornography was not one of them. I grew up in a town and a time when I didn’t even know the meaning of that word. At the private school I attended in seventh and eighth grade, 200 miles from home, one kid used to smuggle Playboy magazines into the

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  • Informed Consent and the Pill

    Informed Consent and the Pill4

    Like many women, when I was given the birds and bees talk, I was told about hormonal birth control pills as a common method of contraception. Indeed, 14 percent of women take the pill. There’s plenty of controversy to be had around this drug. And to be clear, this is not an anti-contraception article; I

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  • Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers

    Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers0

    It was the sinking of a British boat by a German torpedo that began to push the United States toward entering World War I. For many Americans the attack on the ocean liner Lusitania in May 1915 and the subsequent death of an estimated 1,198 people including 128 Americans solidified the belief that Germany was

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  • Inflation Veering Toward 1 Million Percent in Collapsing, Socialist Venezuela

    Inflation Veering Toward 1 Million Percent in Collapsing, Socialist Venezuela0

    Venezuela’s inflation may hit 1 million percent by the end of the year, the International Monetary Fund announced on Monday. This incredible hyperinflation is reminiscent of Weimar Germany during the years immediately after World War I, in which wheelbarrows full of cash were required to buy bare essential items, like a loaf of bread.   That pile

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  • Inflation Has Consequences

    Inflation Has Consequences0

    • August 24, 2015

    From the Austrian School economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises. The quote, often misattributed to Henry Hazlitt, is found in Sennholz’s article, “Indexing: New Version of an Old Myth,” in Inflation Survival Letter, July 1, 1974. Save this article to favorites

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