Current Affairs
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In the Hobby Lobby case: Justice Elena Kagan also vigorously defended the coverage rule, arguing that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga were not being forced to provide insurance coverage and could simply choose not to by paying $2,000 per year per employee—an amount far lower than the cost of health insurance. We’re not going to force…
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I say "what" because the conventional liberal belief about John F. Kennedy's assassination tends to make the question "what" rather than "who," then wind itself back to "who" again, but not to Lee Harvey Oswald, whose guilt is inconvenient. In order to avoid the generally accepted fact that Kennedy was killed by a left-winger, liberals…
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This is a followup to that post of a few weeks ago, What's Wrong, about the exclusion of the workers in a corporation from a share in its prosperity. Having such a share would imply a share in its un-prosperity as well, but in too many cases workers get the latter without the former. I…
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Neo-neocon again, on the Obama administration's use of the IRS against its opponents: So Nixon is convicted in the eyes of the public for what appears to have been largely thoughtcrime, whereas the Obama administration and its handmaidens such as Lois Lerner get off seemingly free (so far) for the actual crime. Obama’s much greater…
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Neo-neocon has come to a sobering realization: And so if you are audacious enough (and your name is Barack Obama) you can fool most of the people most of the time. And your supporters will defend you for it, as long as you’re not lying to them about some pet issue of theirs. This is not a discovery…
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A few days ago I followed a link from somewhere or other to this story about the CEO of Caterpillar. Caterpillar is a big company, with approximately 121,000 employees. In 2012 it had about $5.6 billion in profits. A very hasty search informs me the company was doing worse throughout 2013, and profits are significantly…
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I'm pretty sure it was 1992 when I first heard Rush Limbaugh, because I remember him talking about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. It's hard for people who weren't around, and of conservative sympathies, at that time to understand how much fun it was when he came on the scene. Almost all the media, electronic and…
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"Searching for Time Travelers Probably A Waste of Time"
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(This post has been sitting around almost finished for a week or two; time to go ahead and get it out of the way.) It's unfortunate that the political aspects of Evangelii Gaudium have so overshadowed its focus on evangelization. But since they have, I find myself wanting to respond further to it and to…
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Good news: two police officers are caught having sex on duty and demoted or suspended. Why is it good news? Because she's black and he's white, and it's not a racial story, it's a police discipline story. It will take generations for Alabama's image to recover from the stain of slavery, segregation, and most of…
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