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Op-Ed's and Essays
:: Recent Editorials ::
7/15/12: Thomas Ricks Wants Your Kids
By Edward Cline
Just when you thought the government was finished scheduling your life and mapping out how you can become an exemplar of gung-ho "giving back" citizenship, another Pulitzer Prize winner concocts still another scheme to best exploit your life, time, and energies.
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7/11/12: The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Against Freedom of Speech
By Edward Cline
Robert Spencer, a tireless defender of freedom and the freedom of speech against Islam, was attacked recently in the New York Daily News and charged with having "inspired" Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik to go on his killing spree in July 2011.
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7/03/12: A Clash of Supremacies over Obamacare
By Edward Cline
Before Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, wrote the majority opinion upholding the alleged constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (on one hand, denying its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause, but, on the other, sanctioning the individual mandate as a tax Congress has the power to impose), otherwise known as Obamacare (ADA), several states had announced that they would refuse to implement the law or conform to its specific provisions.
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6/29/12: The Supreme Court's 'Declaratory Act'
By Edward Cline
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, wrote the majority opinion upholding the alleged constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. Obamacare will compel, under penalty of a monetary payment, all Americans to purchase health insurance.
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6/27/12: Ludwig von Mises's 'Omnipotent Government': A Primer on Statism
By Edward Cline
Given today's political circumstances, in which this country, in November, will either reject the boisterous, crude, arrogant statism of the current administration in favor of one that will consume the country at a less gluttonous rate (thus allowing champions of freedom to marshal their intellectual and political forces), or submit to a suicidal sanctioning of its demise, I thought it would be timely to revisit a classic that over half a century ago projected the consequences of omnivorous statism, Ludwig von Mises's
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.
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6/16/12: The Bedlam of Statism
By Edward Cline
Is statism bipolar? Schizophrenic? Autistic? Obsessive-compulsive? Multi-phobic? Inherently dysfunctional? Psychotically antisocial? A form of dementia? A narcissistic personality disorder? A kind of panic or anxiety disorder? Just plain maladaptive? Or all of the preceding? This column will enter the mad house of statism and explore its various wards.
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6/10/12: Book Review: 'Nothing Less Than Victory' by John David Lewis
By Edward Cline
In each of the armed
conflicts that he illustrates, classicist John David Lewis economically dwells
on military strategies of opponents, but places far more importance on the moral
force, or lack of it, that guides one side to victory and the other to defeat.
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5/30/12: Watch What You Say: A Guide for Dhimmis
By Edward Cline
Feeling a need to humor
myself, and casting about for a way to cock a snook at the Department of
Homeland Security and The Transportation Security Administration (in German,
Die Abteilung der Heimatland-Sicherheit, and Die
Transport-Sicherheitsverwaltung, one click of the heels and raised right
arm, palm down, required for pronunciation, if you can manage it) and strike a
blow for freedom of speech and the First and Fourth Amendments, the DHS provided
me with a salubrious vehicle.
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5/23/12: Sticks and Stones
By Edward Cline
Sticks and stones may be used in the commission of an actual felony, as well as guns, knives, one's fists, or any other physical object. But an evolving complement of new chargeable felonies, often appended to legitimate ones, is growing, and if not challenged, will reach a "critical mass" in law that will stifle all realms of speech.
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5/20/12: Facebook Founder Flees Fleecing
By Edward Cline
Senator Schumer and his grim-faced co-author of the "Ex-Patriot Act" bill, Pennsylvania Democrat, Senator Bob Casey, are "globalists." That is, they wish to pursue "tax dodgers" beyond American shores with the full power of the Treasury Department to snare expatriate money squirreled away by its owners to protect it from evangelical thieves like Schumer and Casey and their ilk in Congress and the various Washington satrapies.
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5/12/12: Alias Marx and Alinsky
By Edward Cline
Calling
socialists liberals is as deceptive as calling goose gizzards foie gras.
It fools no one but the epistemologically blinkered. The term liberal
allows liberals to pose as concerned, generous and forward-thinking individuals
and to act under what was once an honorable term for anyone who advocated or
endorsed liberty. And as any well-read American knows, liberals do not advocate
liberty. Quite the opposite.
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5/6/12: The Peril of 'Hate Crimes'
By Edward Cline
A totalitarian anti-concept of "justice" has been gnawing away at objective law without correction or opposition, and making rapid progress in a judicial system that has steadily abandoned reason and the protection of individual rights: hate crime.
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:: Archived Editorials & Commentary ::
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Economic & Tax Policy
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Education
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Foreign Policy
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Health Care
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National Defense
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Philosophy, Culture & Politics
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Sports
Antitrust
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7/13/06: Microsoft's surrender
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6/16/06: Bill Gates—alias George Bailey,
alias Mitchell Layton
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01/08/04:
The Year in Antitrust, 2003
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6/10/03:
D.C. Council Proposal Doesn't Protect Physician Rights
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6/6/03:
Antitrust and Amateurism: The NCAA's Dangerous Combination
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6/3/03:
The DOJ's Case Against Mountain Health Care Demands Challenge
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5/23/03:
FCC "Deregulation" Doesn't Go Far Enough
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5/12/03:
Antitrust Enforcers Rewrite First Amendment
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5/6/03:
CAC Chairman Addresses Colorado Physicians
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5/3/03:
CAC Backs Paul Bill to Liberate Physicians
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4/11/03: Mountain Health Care, R.I.P.
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3/30/03:
FTC Defends the War on Ice Cream
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3/21/03:
Britain Needs to Advocate Individual Rights Consistently
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3/5/03:
Life, Liberty, and Haagen-Dazs
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2/11/03:
Tyranny by Market Definition
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2/3/03:
Financing the Antitrust Racket
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1/27/03: Appeasing the Public Interest God
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1/14/03:
Price Check on Antitrust
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12/27/02: Judge Motz and the Antithesis of Law
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12/12/03: Tonya Harding’s Army
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10/31/02: The $68,486,679 Question: Is
Capitalism Alive?
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9/4/02:
Classless Action Against
Microsoft
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8/30/02: Striking Out Defending
Antitrust
Courts & Law
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12/16/03:
The People Versus LaLa Wang
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11/18/03:
Taking the Antitrust Enforcers to Task
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9/15/03:
Businessman Pits Principle Against Politics
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9/12/03: 'Nike' means ‘victory’ no more
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6/15/03:
Judicial Nomination Fights Are About Power, Not Ideology
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6/9/03:
RAVE Act is a Tool of Fear
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5/28/03:
Rehnquist Just Plain Wrong on Family Leave Law
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5/19/03:
Virginia's Threat to Reproductive Rights
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4/21/03: Ted Olson's Failed Defense of Commercial Speech
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3/29/03:
Untrustworthy IOLTA Accounts
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3/10/03:
Nike, Free Speech and the
Constitution
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2/27/03:
Abortion & Property Rights
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2/24/03:
Supreme Court Blind to Eminent
Domain Abuse
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2/6/03:
Zoning and "New" Property Rights
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1/28/03: The Crusading
Lawyers
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1/23/03:
All the Rights but One
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1/18/03: Bush, Michigan & Morality
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1/10/03:
Standing Up to Racism
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11/22/02:
Uncorrupting Corporate Speech
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8/15/02: Congress Goes Stark RAVEing
Mad
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8/8/02:
Individual Rights Loses a Round to 'Democracy'
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7/26/02: Happy Birthday, Americans with Disabilities
Act
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7/15/02: Individual Rights and the
Supreme Court
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7/9/02: Appellate Judges Court
Anti-Business Mentality
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6/21/02 Executing the Mentally Retarded
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6/12/02: Ohio's Gun Nuts
Economic & Tax Policy
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4/15/03: The April 15th Challenge
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3/25/03:
Supreme Court Supports Property Rights by Popular Vote
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3/24/03:
The Sin of "Sin Taxes"
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3/13/03:
Killed by the "Living Wage"
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2/28/03:
Romney's $75 Million Extortion Scheme
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2/25/03:
Politicians Gouge Gas Producers
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1/8/03:
The Future of "Public" Radio
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1/3/03: New York Times Co. v. Private Property
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12/13/02: Rich People Should Sacrifice More
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11/19/02: On An Americanized Islam: Evading the
Prohibitions on Usury
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10/6/02: Solar Power: Blinded by the Light
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9/19/02:
Altruism and Chocolate
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9/7/02:
GOP Shows Their True
Colors on Hershey Sale
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8/22/02: Will Government Interference Ruin Internet Radio?
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8/13/02: Patriotic Companies Crossing the Delaware
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8/12/02: FCC Tunes Out Consumers
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7/31/02 Phony Patriotism
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7/29/02:
Real Treason: The War Against
Business
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7/23/02: Ayn Rand's Failed Student
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7/17/02: Where the Real
Accountability Lies
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7/2/02:
Real Patriotism: Congress vs. Tax Havens
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6/25/02: Will Bush Trip over
Pears?
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6/20/02: Amtrak: The Perpetual Failure Machine
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6/17/02 Corporate Taxes
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6/11/02:
It's the Spending Stupid
Education
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1/26/06:
Where Science Ends and Faith Begins
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2/21/03:
Reforming the School Monopoly
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1/18/03: Bush, Michigan & Morality
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1/13/03:
No Preschooler Left Behind
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1/10/03:
Standing Up to Racism
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8/26/02: Education vs. Morality
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6/28/02:
Coercing Allegiance to the Flag
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6/28/02:
School Testing Now Includes Drugs
Foreign Policy
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10/09/06: Boycotting one's self bankrupt
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8/22/06: The Mind Games
of Diplomacy
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8/07/06: Our Islamic
Nemesis, Then and Now
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7/18/06: The 'Provoked
Sword' of Israel
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6/02/06: Neville
Chamberlain Redux
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2/27/06: A Strategy of Sacrifice, a Reply of Scorn
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2/9/06: The Myth of the 'Moderate' Muslim
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2/6/06: The Muslims' New Program for Thought Control
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11/10/04:
What If Islam Triumphed?
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9/10/03: Facing Down North Korea
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3/20/03:
America's "Debt" to the French
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3/15/03:
The Future of Iraq
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2/26/03: A
Dialogue Not Worth Having
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2/15/03:
Iran's Jihad Against Civilization
Continues
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2/14/03:
It Is Time to Make A Martyr
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2/7/03:
The Coming Revolution in Iran
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2/5/03: High Noon at the United Nations
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1/30/03:
An Axis of Valor
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1/12/03: North Korea
Must Dismantle Its Nuclear Facilities
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1/11/03:
The Future of the US-South Korean Alliance
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10/19/02:
The Irrationality of "Rational Actors"
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10/18/02:
Appeasement Never Works
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9/13/02:
Declaring Independence from the UN
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9/2/03:
Mad About Mandela
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8/21/02: Yet More Tears for
Africa
Health Care
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3/22/06: America’s injustice to Sam Waksal
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6/10/03:
D.C. Council Proposal Doesn't Protect Physician Rights
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6/3/03:
The DOJ's Case Against Mountain Health Care Demands Challenge
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5/6/03:
CAC Chairman Addresses Colorado Physicians
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5/3/03:
CAC Backs Paul Bill to Liberate Physicians
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4/11/03: Mountain Health Care, R.I.P.
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1/29/03: The State of the Union 2003
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1/2/03: New Senate Leader Must "Do No Harm"
National Defense
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9/11/06: Avenge September 11th
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4/20/06: The Moral Lesson of Hiroshima
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3/03/06: Standing up to Kelo, but Surrendering to Jihad
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2/27/06: A Strategy of Sacrifice, a Reply of Scorn
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11/10/04:
What If Islam Triumphed?
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9/28/04:
Taking the Nihilism of Islamifascism personally
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9/10/03: Facing Down North Korea
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5/26/03:
A Marine Captain on
Why a Free Man Fights
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4/10/03: The Liberation of Baghdad
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3/28/03: The
Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction
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3/19/03:
The Fight for Right and Freedom
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3/17/03:
The Aims and Prosecution of the War
with Iraq
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3/6/03:
Will the President's Words Have
Weight?
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2/16/03:
Sure, Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda
Would Never Work Together
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2/14/03:
It Is Time to Make A Martyr
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2/10/03: How Will We Know We’ve Won?
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2/8/03:
The Importance of Deterrence
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2/2/03: A War of Liberation is Always a
Just War
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1/29/03: The State of the Union 2003
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1/12/03: North Korea
Must Dismantle Its Nuclear Facilities
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1/6/03:
No to Reinstating the Military Draft
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10/18/02:
Appeasement Never Works
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10/15/02:
High Tech Tools to Stop the Washington Sniper
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10/9/02:
The Case for Action Against Iraq
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9/18/02: Why We Must Take Out Iraq
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9/8/02:
One Year Later: Does
Bush Really Understand the War?
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6/7/02: Individualism and Teamwork in Defense of
Freedom
Philosophy, Culture & Politics
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5/2/12: Your Mild-Mannered Speech Therapist: Cass Sunstein
By Edward Cline
Cass Sunstein, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will not like this column. He may be offended by it. Feel insulted. Cry "not fair!" He may recommend that I be taxed, or financially penalized somehow for expressing unapproved speech, or even incarcerated for having said such awful things about him. He endorses these ideas.
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4/30/12: The Devil You Say: 'If I Wanted America to Fail'
By Edward Cline
On April 9th, FreeMarketAmerica.org, a project of Americans for Limited Government, released a Doberman of a video that goes straight for the jugular of stealth socialism and totalitarian government, "If I Wanted America to Fail." Little more than four and a half minutes long, it is powerful, it is unique, it is effective. As of this writing, hits are nearing the two million mark on YouTube.
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4/21/12: A Renewed Assault on Freedom of Speech
By Edward Cline
House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi of California and her fellow Democrats wish to “amend” the First Amendment in order to prohibit corporations from saying anything or spending anything during national elections.
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4/19/12: Comic Books, Hate Crime, and Kafirphobia
By Edward Cline
What
follows is a potpourri of comments I left on various sites over the last few
days.
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4/12/12: Islam’s Affinity with Force and Fraud
By Edward Cline
Islam’s
affinity with force and fraud has no bounds. Its perpetuation and exploitation
of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a malicious fabrication founded
on the lowest form of unreason, has allowed it to emulate the irrationality it
purports to oppose.
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4/6/12: Yes, Nancy, We are Serious
By Edward Cline
In October
2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, astounded by the apparent irrelevance of a
reporter’s question about the constitutionality of Obamacare, spoke words that
ricocheted off the Constitution and then around the world.
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4/3/12: The Many Appetites for Cruelty
By Edward Cline
Daniel Greenfield, during an interview on Jamie Glasov’s radio show on March 28th, was discussing Hitler and Stalin when he noted that they had an “appetite for cruelty.” That got me thinking about the nature and purpose of cruelty.
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3/28/12: The Court's Mock Examination of Obamacare
By Edward Cline
Justice Antonin Scalia enunciated the most relevant, but less than scintillating exchanges between the Court and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli
in the second day of the Supreme Court’s review of the constitutionality – or
its unconstitutionality – of the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, nicknamed “Obamacare.”
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3/25/2012: Islamic Jihad: Hurry Up or Wait?
By Edward Cline
I would liken Islam to an ideological Black Death that must be faced up to by politicians and intellectuals. There's no such thing as a "benign" Islam. It is a death-worshipping ideology from top to bottom. And the only way to emasculate it is to repudiate it in its entirety.
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3/21/2012: Allah's Oops!
By Edward Cline
Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, a chaotic and bewildering novel which earned him a permanent death fatwa by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989, will attend a literary conference in New Delhi, India in March, in defiance of Islamic naysayers. We can credit him with the defiance, but not his oeuvre with literary worth.
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3/19/2012: The 'False Alarm' of the latest Executive Order
By Edward Cline
Previously, I have written about the ambiguous language in certain sections of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA), language that could authorize the warrantless arrests of American citizens for cocking a snook at the government and treating said citizens as enemy combatants or prisoners of war subject to indefinite detention in conditions less salubrious than those enjoyed by actual enemy combatants now housed in Gitmo.
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5/16/07: The Genesis of Thought Crime
By Edward Cline
If H.R. 1592 is made law, mind what you say about anyone. Better yet, don’t
even think of saying anything.
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5/10/07: The Democrats’ Assault on Freedom of
Speech By Edward Cline
A Democratic bill seeks to squeeze the last shred of meaning from the First
Amendment.
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4/25/07: Crass and Class at George Mason University By Nicholas
Provenzo
Academic freedom means tolerating opposing views and
countering them with reason and facts.
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4/21/07: Islamic totalitarianism and academic freedom at
George Mason University By Nicholas
Provenzo
No one has a right to bar anyone who seeks to peacefully
discuss his or her ideas from speaking at George Mason.
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4/18/07: Muslim Milquetoasts to the Rescue? By Edward Cline
Why don't see much in the way of "moderate"
Muslims opposing "extremist" Muslims?
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11/20/06: Turning the Marines into Missionaries
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10/31/06: Hope for a 'Do-Nothing' Congress
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10/24/06: The Failure of 'Flags of Our Fathers'
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10/24/06: Sparrowhawk: Wings of Praise
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10/13/06: Golden Genes
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10/11/06: Nobel Prizes in Nullity
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10/7/06: Medals for Mendacity
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9/20/06: The Janus Face of Islam
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9/14/06: The Pathetic 'Path to 9/11'
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9/11/06: Avenge September 11th
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9/11/06: Taking Islam Seriously
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9/09/06: 9/11: Taking it
Personally
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8/29/06: A Disgraceful
'Détente'
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8/15/06: The Fascists in
our Midst
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8/07/06: Our Islamic
Nemesis, Then and Now
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7/31/06: On Fanatics and
Delusional Minds
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7/27/06: Sparrowhawk:
Observations of a Book Signer
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7/20/06: Sparrowhawk:
Lacunæ and Artistic License
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7/19/06: Sparrowhawk:
Some Stones of Style
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7/15/06: Sparrowhawk:
The Project
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7/14/06: The Force is
with them
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7/13/06: Microsoft's surrender
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6/16/06: Bill Gates—alias George Bailey,
alias Mitchell Layton
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5/26/06: The Trolls of Drollery
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5/13/06: How to deter
the United States
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5/12/06: My Mom's
invaluable lesson
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5/5/06: Anti-'price-gouging' regulation not worth the cost
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3/03/06: Standing up to Kelo, but Surrendering to Jihad
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2/17/06: A Leaden Silence on the Islamic Threat to Free Speech
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2/9/06: The Myth of the 'Moderate' Muslim
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2/6/06: The Muslims' New Program for Thought Control
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2/5/06:
Recreating the Spirit of '76
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1/26/06:
Where Science Ends and Faith Begins
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10/09/04:
Understanding the Impotence of the Conservatives
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4/23/04:
The Threat of Bush’s Faith-based America
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1/29/04:
Who Will Lead the War on Altruism?
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10/09/04:
Understanding the Impotence of the Conservatives
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04/23/04:
The Threat of Bush’s Faith-based America
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01/29/04:
Who Will Lead the War on Altruism?
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01/23/04:
The Philosophic Sate of the Union
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01/16/04:
Spaced Out
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10/07/03:
Sacrificing Business for Political Gain
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4/29/03: CAC Chairman Takes on
Republican Fundraising Survey
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4/24/03: Rick Santorum’s Moral Outrage
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3/14/03:
Country Fried Dixie Chicks
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2/17/03:
The Adams Family
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2/13/03: The
Libertarian Anti-Manifesto
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2/1/03: Hail Columbia
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1/25/03: Jenny from the Block
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1/23/03:
All the Rights but One
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1/20/03: Colin Powell Must Resign
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1/7/03:
Democracy for Democracy's Sake
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12/31/02: Reason, Not Pretense Needed in Cloning Debate
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12/30/02: Patty Murray's Admission of Ignorance
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12/20/02: Lott's Resignation: Now the Real Work Begins
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12/19/02: Faith is Not Enough
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12/18/02:
Racism in America, then and now
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12/11/02: The Implosion of the Republican
Party
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12/10/02: When saying "I'm sorry" is
not enough
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12/6/02: Majority Leader Lott Must Go
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12/5/02: The Conservative Cult of Human
Sacrifice
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11/3/02: Q&A on the Ethics of
Christianity v. Capitalism
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10/10/02: A Cycle of Injustice
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10/3/02: The Canadian Government vs. Free
Speech
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9/30/02: Your Freedom Ends Where My Property
Begins
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9/27/02:
Protesters Demonstrate the Anti-Capitalist Mentality
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9/24/02: West Nile Virus: The Environmentalist
Epidemic
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9/17/02: The
Future of our Freedom
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9/16/02: GE's Jack Welch Caves In
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9/9/02:
Judge, Be Judged, and Act
Accordingly
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9/5/02: An America-Free 9/11
Commemoration
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9/3/02:
What to Do About
Vagrants?
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8/5/02: What's in a Name: "Moral
Defense" Becomes "Advancement"
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7/24/02: Our National Nightmare is Over—Or is
It?
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7/4/02: The Spirit of '76
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6/18/02: Against All Instincts, CAC Chairman Takes GOP Survey
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6/14/02: The President's Call for Human
Sacrifice
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6/6/02: Tainted
Facts from a Tainted Well
Sports
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6/6/03:
Antitrust and Amateurism: The NCAA's Dangerous Combination
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4/14/03: Capitalism triumphs at Augusta
National
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3/18/03:
Burk's Fight Should be Cancelled
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1/31/03: Title IX Discriminates Against
Achievement
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1/1/03: The NFL's Race Problem
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8/30/02: Striking Out Defending
Antitrust
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8/9/02: USGA Should Give Club Makers a Mulligan
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7/22/02: Race, Class, Sex & Tiger
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