Memes, Natural Selection, and Competing SocietiesNatural selection drives human population. Back in the hunter-gatherer period, the strongest, most skillful hunters were able to feed more babies than weaker men and enjoyed greater reproductive success. Women tried to attract strong men so that they, ... |
Jun 8, 10 |
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Governor Charlie Crist: Putting Politics Above PrincipleHistory reveals a significant tendency characteristic of power-seekers: such men are often solely driven by their appetite for influence. Would it be incendiary to suggest that perhaps Florida Governor Charlie Crist is this type - that his objective is s... |
May 4, 10 |
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Winning: Not The Same Thing as Not LosingFor the last couple weeks, Republican jubilation has been building in force. Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat! Obamacare went down to crushing and ignominious defeat! Obama didn't seem to notice either of these disasters and, in his Sta... |
Feb 4, 10 |
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Of Political Treason and Forgetful ElephantsIt's been a very strange twelve months politically. One year ago, the airwaves resounded with wishful hopes that conservatism was dead and the Republican Party was deader. One year ago, not only did Democrats sweep the polls, but the furthest-left pres... |
Nov 5, 09 |
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Col. Blimp Takes Tea with the RepublicansThe other evening, I found myself wasting time channel-surfing through the dreck on TV, rather than more fruitfully reading Gibbon or Sowell as I might have been. As luck would have it, I happened upon a 1943 film The Life and Death of Col. Blimp. Here... |
Jun 11, 09 |
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Bill Buckley's Basic BlunderThe National Review magazine has been known as the voice of American conservatism for decades. William F. Buckley, its founder, used to say that his role was "Standing athwart history yelling STOP." He and his fellow National Review authors were so cle... |
Jun 8, 09 |
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Rush Limbaugh and the Mantle of ReaganWith the sort of glee that comes only from total victory, the Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have seized upon Mr. Obama's election as an opportunity to declare conservatism legally dead. Most voters weren't even born the last time th... |
Mar 3, 09 |
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Bobby Jindal, Nixon, and Symbolism over SubstanceThe 1960 Presidential election pitted two great lions of American politics against each other - John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. The pair could hardly have been more different both personally and politically - Nixon with his lower-class heritage an... |
Feb 27, 09 |
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Why Conservatism FailedThe deed is done. The parades and balls are over, the oaths have been sworn after a few false starts, and the debris is rotting unswept in the gutters. Liberal Democrats hold total sway over all the levers of our federal government. With scant excepti... |
Jan 26, 09 |
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The Abortion Battle Shows the Way Scragged has from its inception been mostly an opinion magazine. The occasional opportunity arises to do some actual journalism and independent reporting on news, but in the main, as one of our slogans has it, "They Report, We Decide."
This sort of ... |
Dec 1, 08 |
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Why Ron Paul Would Have Beaten ObamaLast Tuesday, around 9 PM, conservatives began to ask two questions:
1. How badly will McCain lose?
2. Could any of the other Republican candidates have beaten Mr. Obama?
The first question is irrelevant. Win by a lot, win by a little - the... |
Nov 12, 08 |
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Dear Rush Limbaugh...Rush,
I'm going to start off by introducing myself. I'm a 25 year old, white, Conservative/Libertarian leaning resident of Minnesota. I waited until after the elections to write this so that I would have a better time proving my point without the clou... |
Nov 11, 08 |
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Republicans' Future From Across the PondSo now the Republican party plods, dispirited and disgusted, into the wilderness. Countless keystrokes have been sacrificed to detail the manifold reasons why Republicans deserve every bit of this shame; countless more, no doubt, will be expended to des... |
Nov 10, 08 |
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Palin Reveals Republican's Low Expectations Everybody knows that it's vital to manage expectations. If a seller makes a buyer believe the product is more wonderful than it really is, the customer will be disappointed, no matter how decent the product actually might be. Social scientists have do... |
Sep 5, 08 |
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McCain's Achilles HeelThe headline news this week is Hillary's hard-fought victory over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania. The candidates have spent the last six weeks flailing at each other, since it's generally considered that if Barack won the state, Hillary's campaign would b... |
Apr 24, 08 |
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The Mantle of ReaganAs the Republican party tears itself apart over the question of what it means to be Republican, the word most commonly thrown back and forth is the sainted name of Ronald Reagan. Each of the candidates looks through the history book, finds a position th... |
Feb 7, 08 |
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Simple is complex in all things non-governmentDoing "nothing" seems simple. Commonly, doing "nothing" requires little thought or physical exertion. It demonstrates no prowess on the part of the performer, nor does it determine incompetence. But is it really possible to do "nothing"? No living thin... |
Jul 25, 07 |
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