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Where Have All the Conservatives Gone?0
- Action for Liberty, Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- August 9, 2019
In every presidential election, the Republican candidate runs as a conservative promising to reduce the debt and deficit. The promises have been made for so many decades that they have created a myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives determined to reduce the National Debt and the Democrats are crazy, uncontrolled spenders. In the 2016 election,
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Democratic Debate Turns Into Circular Firing Squad, Signaling Trump’s Victory 0
- Front Page, Headline News, Political Opinion, Top News
- July 30, 2019
On July 30th, CNN held the July Democratic presidential debate. This was the second scheduled debate on the trail to 2020. While the first debates were more civil, the July debate turned into a fierce fight where candidates held no punches. The candidates were Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Former
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The Myth That Eating McDonald’s Makes You Obese 0
- Free Style, Front Page, HEALTH
- June 22, 2019
By Hans Bader I lost ten pounds in the summer that I worked at McDonald’s, eating there all the time. Yet, people try to blame fast-food restaurants for their obesity. It’s one of the “myths about fast food” discussed this week in the Washington Post, which observes that “just eating burgers does not cause obesity.”
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What Happens When Everyone Gets a ‘Free’ Lunch? Money Problems 0
- Education, Front Page, Gov't Incompetence, Political Opinion
- June 10, 2019
A yogurt company, Chobani, has picked up the tab for unpaid school lunches in a Rhode Island school district. That’s a relief to the school district, but not one likely to be replicated elsewhere. A new report finds that it would take a whole lot of dairy to fix the waste and misspent money in federal school meal programs
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The Anti-War Left’s Math Problem 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- May 15, 2019
The Anti-war Left by-and-large, well… left, sometime during Obama’s Presidency. Most were killed by the kind of partisanship that would excuse expansions of the war machine as long as the guy doing it had a “D” by his name. Among the partisans, there is still lingering denial about bombing more countries than Bush, violating the
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Biden Promises to Make America 2008-2016 Again 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page
- April 29, 2019
For the past couple of years, when I’ve criticized Trump, I’ve often heard “but Obama…” It was annoyingly irrelevant. He was no longer President. Whether or not he was “worse” or “better” than Trump didn’t change whether any specific Trump-led policies were positive or negative. The same people who rightly criticized Obama supporters for continuing
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