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By Will Offensicht | Jan 18, 2008 |
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We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 17, 2008 |
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We gripe about bias in the mainstream media because freedom of the press is only meaningful if you happen to own a press, but enough people have presses to keep politicians on their toes.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 16, 2008 |
19
Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars? The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 12, 2008 |
8
Principals have be to able to fire teachers, or you can't run an effective school.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 11, 2008 |
5
Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 10, 2008 |
11
A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 7, 2008 |
8
One of the supreme ironies of our time is that a religiously-motivated US president went to war in the name of God to set up a non-religious state in Iraq to protect Americans against a highly religious movement known as Al Qaeda.
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By Will Offensicht | Dec 25, 2007 |
4
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, stirred up a storm when he spoke of the Nativity as a "myth." The Pope didn't have that problem. Perhaps the Pope has a stronger brand identity than does the Church of England?
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By Will Offensicht | Dec 10, 2007 |
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The Omaha mall incident adds 9 more victims onto this year's tally of innocents who died because of gun control.
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By Will Offensicht | Dec 4, 2007 |
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Armed citizens make it a bit harder to do evil.