Monthly Archives: June 2005

Tyrrany of the Few

Eminent domain? Fine. Building roads, schools, and infrastructure? Acceptable. Taking other people’s homes to build office complexes? What are we thinking?! A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for … Continue reading

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Poverty That Defies Aid

Marian Tupy at the CATO Institute has an amazing analysis of the impact of Western aid to Africa: [B]etween 1960 and 2005, foreign aid worth more than $450 billion, inflation adjusted, poured into Africa. Result? Between 1975 and 2000, African … Continue reading

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SkepticalObservor: A Pathetic Literary Foray

This would make a great Flash animation.

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Death of the Referral Javascript

For future reference to neophyte bloggers out there: foreign Javascript (i.e. scripts that run from someone else’s web server) is bad. The ol’ website should load much more quickly now folks.

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OMT: Meet Adam Piper

Norman at One Man’s Trash is giving Mr. Piper a hard time for this little tidbit in a recent mailing for Sen. Russ Potts: Virginia is counting on each and every one of us to ensure she has a Governor … Continue reading

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Asthma

If someone can find the quick cure for asthma, or if you happen to be a large pharmeceutical company working on the cure, you will make millions of dollars off of me alone. Please hurry. Operators are standing by.

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NYT: Some Politics May Be Etched in the Genes

Now this is an interesting study. At first I was a bit skeptical (how can you really measure this?), but once you read through the article the play between genetically identical twins and fraternal twins: From an extensive battery of … Continue reading

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Benedict XVI: Church can never accept abortion

The Vatican has published a new book of Pope Benedict XVI’s addresses. Consisting of three separate works spanning from 1992 to 2005 and only 150 pages long, Benedict even goes into the question of whether or not the Church should … Continue reading

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Home Depot Bans Man for Pocketing Pencil?

.!. You’re buying $117 of lumber. Your buddy offers you a pencil to mark some of the wood. You mark it and begin to walk out of the store. Just then, security comes running out. You absentmindedly pocketed the used … Continue reading

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SkepticalObservor

James Young at SkepticalObservor has a really clean web design. Moreover, it’s filled with pretty good stuff. Check it out.

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