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A Bleak Future? Young Americans Should Be Worrying About Entitlement Liabilities Rather Than Climate Change.

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Poetic Justice Warrior Spotlight: The Poetic Justice Warrior Who Eternalized the Great Terror Behind the Berlin Wall - Anna Akhmatova

For many people in the United States, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a ho-hum events. For America's intelligentsia and their ignorati, Reagan was still a doofus B movie actor and socialism was the dominant philosophy of America's national media and universities. Josef Stalin's Great Terror was not taught in schools, and neither was Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

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Eastern Europe Sees Liberal Orthodoxy As Just As Tyrannical As Communist Orthodoxy, Charts Its Own Path.

by Bojan Pancevski via wsj.com

The definition of liberalism changed within the West itself, expanding to include values such as ethnic diversity and LGBT rights after politicians embraced what he calls left-liberal democracy. Liberalism no longer solves the people's problems.

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Climate Activist Mayor Gets On The Wrong Side Of The City's Own Workers.

by Salena Zito via wsj.com

“When you hurt the advancement of a region and their ability to feed their family and have a better life, that’s when it becomes an issue for us,” said Darrin Kelly, the city firefighter who heads the Allegheny County Labor Council.

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Africa's Socialism Is Keeping It Poor.

by Germinal G. Van via mises.org

What Africans have failed to grasp about capitalism and the free market is that, it is not a system intrinsic to Western culture. It is a system intrinsic to human nature regardless of race, ethnicity, or the local culture.

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Urban Democrats Are Driving Jobs And Prosperity Out Of American Cities.

by Kristin Tate via thehill.com

The primary losers in this formula are middle-class workers. Between the loss of jobs and revenue, these states and cities press even harder on millions of middle-income taxpayers to make up the difference.

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A Little Bit Of Knowledge Sharing Goes A Long Way: Let's Learn From Switzerland How To Administer A Healthcare System.

by Bruce Yandle via aier.org

Do we have a national auto insurance plan? A system paid for with taxes so that everyone gets covered? High insurance taxes for rich people and no tax at all for the poor? No.

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The Sharing Economy Increases Human Wealth While Decreasing GDP. Let's Try To Measure The Right Things.

by Michael Munger via aier.org

The idea that price-based “standards of living” have been stagnating is just misguided. New measures of GDP would help, but the larger problem is that any purely market-focused metric will miss the ability, and in fact the desire, of human beings to cooperate in groups.

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Poetic Justice Warrior Spotlight: The Literary Poetic Justice Warrior Fighting Hollywood's Progressive Bigotry on Broadway - Atticus Finch

by Mark Shupe

Harper Lee's masterpiece was an enlightening study of human nature. Her characterization of Finch illustrated the classical liberal values of self-reliance, compassion, tolerance, justice, and most of all, the essential role of a loving, dedicated father in the life of a child. Yet, there were very few examples of fatherly affection or life lessons in the play - the children were played by young adults.

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Splinternet: The Balkanization Of The Internet.

by Akash Kapur via wsj.com

Another idea is to develop “club”- or “zone”-based approaches to running the internet—discrete, interconnecting blocs whose nation-members would make commitments to liberal principles like free trade, privacy and freedom of expression.

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The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously.

A Bleak Future? Young Americans Should Be Worrying About Entitlement Liabilities Rather Than Climate Change.

Poetic Justice Warrior Spotlight: The Poetic Justice Warrior Who Eternalized the Great Terror Behind the Berlin Wall - Anna Akhmatova

Eastern Europe Sees Liberal Orthodoxy As Just As Tyrannical As Communist Orthodoxy, Charts Its Own Path.

Climate Activist Mayor Gets On The Wrong Side Of The City's Own Workers.

Africa's Socialism Is Keeping It Poor.

Urban Democrats Are Driving Jobs And Prosperity Out Of American Cities.

A Little Bit Of Knowledge Sharing Goes A Long Way: Let's Learn From Switzerland How To Administer A Healthcare System.

The Sharing Economy Increases Human Wealth While Decreasing GDP. Let's Try To Measure The Right Things.

Poetic Justice Warrior Spotlight: The Literary Poetic Justice Warrior Fighting Hollywood's Progressive Bigotry on Broadway - Atticus Finch

Splinternet: The Balkanization Of The Internet.

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