Document Deep Dive: How the Homestead Act Transformed America
The suicide forest of Japan: Mount Fuji beauty spot where up to 100 bodies are found every year
Tasty beer: Great Achievements in American Capitalism
Transgressive Art Shocks Educators
But I thought the current pomo view of art was to disturb the complacent. Guess not.
Thomas Kinkade, detested by the bien pensant
But I thought the current pomo view of art was to disturb the complacent. Guess not.
Joel Stein Has Four Accountants
Growing Out of Poverty- A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives:
Thirty years ago, half of the planet lived in utter misery, and many commentators argued that poverty was destiny. At best, most pundits conceded that pockets of poverty could be alleviated through international aid. Only a handful of economists begged to differ: Theodor Schultz, Milton Friedman, and Peter Bauer were the mavericks advocating free-market policies for every nation as the way out of poverty. They have been proven right. China’s economy has been growing since the mid-1980s—when Deng Xiaoping, its de facto leader, abandoned central planning, opened the borders for foreign investment, and promoted entrepreneurship at home.
Related: The Cure for Humanity's Natural State of Abject Poverty - A review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.
The non-diverse Obama campaign HQ
Sowell: Why Politicians Promise Heaven And Deliver Hell:
In politics, few talents are as richly rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims. Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices — leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
It's a truism that recipients of charity must always hate the giver. It's about pride.
Has the Trayvon Martin incident become more about the media than the shooting?
Yes
University Course on How to Impose Communism
No wonder colleges are so greedy
Mojave Solar Project Killing Threatened Desert Tortoises
Understanding the Resilience of Monarchy During the Arab Spring
The Riddle of the Mufti
Obama's America: Why Black Grievance Will Never End
Why I Called George Zimmerman a Murderer, and Why I Was Wrong - I won't get fooled by media again.
Nearly 60 percent of Americans would move from their communities right now if they could, according to a new survey
Everybody's got to be somewhere...
Hospital Refuses To Hire Overweight People
From what I hear, overweight people are always at an employment disadvantage
Here's How Unpopular ObamaCare Is: Fewer Than Half of Democrats Want the Law Upheld
Hmmm.
NASA Scientists Rebel Against Global Warming Hysteria:
Hansen’s unscientific yammering about global warming has ruined the reputation of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and gravely damaged the image of NASA.
Hansen has lost it, and his colleagues finally are daring to admit it.
