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Dissecting a Chocolate Pudding
Reading the transcript of a talk by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, it has some interesting statistics concerning the decline in violence throughout human history, but as Twain once said, there are...
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A Postscript for Monument Builders
In 1962, Ayn Rand wrote an essay, "The Monument Builders" (reprinted in The Virtue of Selfishness), where she named the real nature of this special type of parasite:...Socialism is not a movement of...
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Cave Paintings of Chauvet
Just about the only magazine I've subscribed to for the last 15 years is Archaeology. I was catching up on back issues and found a fascinating article on the stone age paintings in the Chauvet Cave in...
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A Flaw in the Constitution?
No institution based on a set of firm principles can survive if it allows members who hold opposite principles. Imagine if the AMA allowed witch doctors among its members, or if the American Physical...
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Over on Facebook, where I sometimes ruminate to my demise, there pops up, now and then, like a multi-headed hydra out of a jack-in-the-box, the epi-phenomena of friends demanding their friends...
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Mr. Thompson Live
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, published 1957:"Listen to Mr. Thompson's report on the world crisis, November 22!" The newspapers did not mention the outbreaks of violence that had begun to burst across...
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Obama's End-Game
One thing I watch for closely is how Obama is working to undermine the military. My track record of prediction is quite good since he was elected -- 100%. Elimination of 2/3 of the U.S nuclear arsenal...
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A Confluence of Forces
There's an interesting connection between two recent news items. One was this fascinating description of the prison camps in North Korea, a place so horrific that it almost defies description. The...
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Post-Apocalyptic Musings of Henry Bemis
Many people are in love with their e-books -- and the convenience is certainly a factor. I'll stick with my print copies.But when I hear from many friends who delight in their ability to dispose of...
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Those Who Get It, Those Who Don't.
Today, it was reported that Pope Benedict XVI, on a trip to that Caribbean paradise, has said, "...Marxism was out of place in the contemporary world," and has urged Cubans to find "new models"."Today...
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Psychology of a Killer
This article, A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?doesn't provide a very good psychological analysis, but it mentions this much, which is worth considering to get to the correct conclusion about...
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Follow the Network
That title echoes one from David Horowitz, who has a site dedicated to tracing the connections of the Left, Discover the Network.I'm reading Trevor Loudon's book on Obama ("Barack Obama and the Enemies...
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Psychology and Music
I've thought for some time, and I'm thinking much more, recently, that an excellent way, and in some respects, the best way to study the workings of the human mind is via music. The piano, especially....
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They Can Do Whatever They Want
A number of people (including me) have highlighted the danger of Presidential Executive Orders which claim almost unlimited authority for any type of "emergency" (see my post here) . For instance,...
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Flotsam, Jetsam and Lagan.
In his brilliant novel, The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo wrote that there are things that float on the surface of the ocean (flotsam), things that float to shore (jetsam), and then there are those...
View ArticleTrevor Loudon's Urgent Message On the Extreme Danger Posed by Obama
I urge you to listen to this entire 30 minute video, by Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand blogger who first exposed Obama's communist connections, including his mentor Frank Marshall Davis, Van Jones, and...
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When Good Men Do Nothing
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)That quote couldn't be more true today.The other day I posted a quote from Cicero that lamented the decline...
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Denouement of a Lobotomized Nation
A few years ago on my blog I linked an interview with a former Soviet KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, in which he described, in a 1984 interview on Canadian TV, in chilling detail how the Soviets were...
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It's a Madhouse
Headline: 20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown Elementary School Massacre.It's too terrible to dwell on the concrete details, which have become far too commonplace. I only note that it was...
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I had a private exchange with a friend who remarked, I had a thought about the Left’s abhorrence of guns. I wonder if part of it stems from a rationalist “principle” of “all killing is bad.” So, it’s...
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Keepers of the Faith
A term that frequently comes up is "conspiracy theorists."Many people condemn them. Most people have no idea what they are.Put it this way.... define "conspiracy."?Try. For many people, it's...
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The Appeal of Marxism is to Psychopaths
Most people are motivated by moral arguments in their choice of political ideology or issue or simply party. "This is right, this is wrong." For whatever reasoning they subscribe in defense of that...
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The Appeal of Islam Is to Psychopaths
Rolling Stone provides a typical faux-analysis that makes excuses and doesn't address real causes for the allure of Islamic fundamentalism to creatures like the Boston Bombers. To trace out all the...
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Chickens Come Home To Roost on Saint Mandela
I've always known that the "racism" charge has been an especially pernicious means of promoting the agenda of the Left by disarming people today (not just white) with intense guilt... for things that...
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The Final Phase in Obama's Rush Towards Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament of the...
Sub-headline: "And the Surrender of Western Civilization to Barbarism."This news story caught my eye because it's so preposterous, but then I asked why this story is coming out right now. It's...
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