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CNBC Brushes Off One World Government

I heard about this on Glenn Beck. Check out the bombshell hedge fund manager Damon Vickers drops, and how the CNBC guy brushes it off. A few possibilities occur to me: (1) The guy just didn’t even process what Vickers was saying; he was so tuned into financial analysis that the “crazy talk” went right […]

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Can God Own Your Soul?

In recent weeks I have annoyed my atheist readers by declaring that God owns the universe, and I have annoyed some of my libertarian readers by declaring that ideas can’t be owned. So I thought I would try to be doubly annoying today: Can God own your soul? This question is interesting for those of […]

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Steve Landsburg Says Bob Murphy Is "Way Fun"

Really.

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The Skeptics Really Are Skeptics

This particular blog post does not bear on the truth of anthropogenic (manmade) global warming. I’m not going to bother pasting anything here, because the point is (if you’re interested) you need to scroll through Anthony Watts’ post (at a leading skeptic website) and just get the general flavor. There are tons of people saying […]

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A Few More Awkward Emails From the CRU Hack

Regarding the hacking of the Climate Research Unit (CRU)’s webmail server: Before I begin, let me make the obligatory observation that hacking into someone’s computer system is morally wrong. I thought that goes without saying, but apparently not (since everyone is going out of his way to say it). If this were about cybersex between […]

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Glenn Greenwald On the Right Side But No Props for Ron Paul

I don’t mean to be a complainer, but look at the people Glenn Greenwald credits with getting the Fed audit passed by the House Financial Services committee: One can count on one hand the number of times that establishment attacks like this fail, but this time — at least for now — it did. And […]

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Global Warming Bombshell–or "Mushroom Cloud"?

Folks, I don’t use sensational headlines too often. Also, I am in Auburn, AL after spending all day at a conference, and I’m headed out the door. So I haven’t been able to carefully parse all the blogs on this issue. Having given that caveat, this seems HUGE. The Climate Research Unit (CRU) is the […]

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Who Wrote It?

“I would find it very difficult to be a multimillionaire making money by denigrating people who were so desperately poor. Lou Dobbs was dead wrong about the immigration issue. He thought it would kill the country. It can now be seen as a self-inflicted wound made worse by subsidies and the Fed’s housing bubble. Perhaps […]

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