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The Coming Coronavirus Stagflation 0
- Economics
- March 6, 2020
How should you position yourself to prepare for the coming financial upheaval that may result from the coronavirus? The coronavirus already has caused a supply shock that we have yet fully to comprehend. We can’t look into the future but we can look at the past. One possible way the interruption of Chinese manufactured goods
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Counterpunchers: People Who Fight Back 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2020
In my (much) younger days, I did some boxing. Bill Bianco, an Italian-American living in Boonville, North Carolina, who had boxed as a pro for a little while, gave me my first lessons in the art of pugilism when I was in elementary school. Later, for a year – prior to an honorable discharge in
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Bloomberg and Sanders Are Both Wrong About Money in Politics 0
- Politics
- March 6, 2020
Super Tuesday – the single day in the U.S. presidential primaries with the most delegates at stake – has come and gone, and so have quite a few presidential candidates. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) both dropped out before Tuesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. After lackluster
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After Weinstein, the Rules of Intimacy Come Full Circle 0
- Culture
- March 6, 2020
The conviction of Harvey Weinstein at his recent trial on counts of third-degree rape and sexual assault was evidently a shock to him, but it is also very sobering for sexual libertarians in general. The field of uncommitted sex is now full of risks and safety seems to lie in a new revolution. The rewriting of the
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Waiting for a Communist Superman 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2020
In the pursuit of a communist society, many Marxist-Leninist authors have written about the new kind of person who will create this society. This new human being will be a stark contrast to the kind of person that existed in a capitalist system. Once these capitalist chains are removed, mankind will soar to new heights,
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This Isn’t Working: How We View Those We Oppose 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2020
Recently I celebrated my birthday with my son and five of his children. His wife and oldest daughter were visiting relatives, so I pitched in and helped James with the kids. On my birthday we took the kids to a Steak ‘n Shake just north of town. It’s a kid-friendly restaurant and getting grandchildren to
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The Rule of Our Sophisticated Suckers 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2020
“There’s a sucker born every minute,” said P. T. Barnum, expressing, without intending it, the soul of modernist movements in the arts. Donald Trump recently outraged what has been called, without any sense of irony or hyperbole, “the architectural community,” with a directive preferring the federal style for new public buildings in Washington, D.C. That
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On Netflix’s Love is Blind, Mistaken Ideas Are the Villains 0
- Culture
- March 5, 2020
Like millions of others, I couldn’t look away from Netflix’s smash-hit reality show Love is Blind. The contestants were looking for love, but most seemed to hold mistaken beliefs about the nature of love. With their attention riveted on who would make them happy and fulfill their needs, the contestants expressed their feelings: You are the
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AOC’s Pitch for the Green New Deal Is Unhinged From Reality 0
- Economics
- March 5, 2020
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently gave an impassioned pitch for her “Green New Deal” on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. After stating that her opponents were misrepresenting the legislation, she read the full text of it into the Congressional Record and claimed that the reason it is “so, so controversial” is “because for years we have prioritized the
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