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When You Can Run over a Pyongyang Traffic Girl With a Classic Havana Antique Car, the Workers Have Won 12 March 2010 at 10:08 am by admin

In the capital of North Korea life is beautiful.

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When You Can Run over a Pyongyang Traffic Girl With a Classic Havana Antique Car, the Workers Have Won

+ Reason.tv: Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Wants to Beat Manners Into Rude People By admin 12 March 2010 at 8:33 am and have No Comments

“I don’t like regulations,” says Amy Alkon, a syndicated advice columnist who blogs daily at AdviceGoddess.com .

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Reason.tv: Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Wants to Beat Manners Into Rude People

+ Matt Welch and Steven Greenhut on Stossel, Talking About Public Sector Unions, Pensions, and California By admin 10 March 2010 at 3:41 pm and have No Comments

On Feb.

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+ Gun Control, Judicial Restraint, and McDonald v. Chicago By admin 08 March 2010 at 2:57 pm and have No Comments

This weekend brought two very different conservative responses to the oral arguments in the gun rights case McDonald v. Chicago .

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+ Reason.tv: Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups That Benefit From Drug Prohibition By admin 08 March 2010 at 12:23 pm and have No Comments

In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange County, California, held a press conference during which he recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed policy.

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+ Glenn Reynolds: Why American Gov’t is in Deep Schlitz By admin 08 March 2010 at 8:05 am and have No Comments

Glenn Instapundit Reynolds explains why the U.S. government is in such deep Schlitz with the people it supposedly serves: The once-heady brew of American freedom has become watery and unsatisfying

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+ Oscar Roundup 2010 By admin 07 March 2010 at 11:35 pm and have No Comments

I haven’t seen The Hurt Locker , so I’m not sure whether Kathryn Bigelow’s success tonight really reflected the merits of her movie or if it was just the Academy’s way of apologizing for snubbing Point Break . But there were some clear-cut winners and losers at the Oscars this year, and as we sit here wondering when Beau Bridges will finally take home a golden statuette we should take a moment to recognize those victories and defeats: Winner: randomly selected black actors. Whenever someone from Precious won an award, the camera would zoom in on the people who made and starred in the movie.

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Oscar Roundup 2010

+ Because What Could Go Wrong With Fake-Identity Condo Purchases In 2008? By admin 06 March 2010 at 11:23 am and have No Comments

One of the horribly fascinating things about following the real estate market from 2006 until, well, today actually, has been watching how long the body managed to keep running and twitching after the head was blown clean off.

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+ Don’t Cry for Gov. David Paterson By admin 05 March 2010 at 1:48 pm and have No Comments

…or any other corrupt New York state public official for that matter. ProPublica reports that under New York law, there’s nothing a state employee can do that’s so bad he won’t be able to collect his pension

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+ Does Obama Know What ‘Principled Commitment’ Means? By admin 05 March 2010 at 10:35 am and have No Comments

Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution that calls upon President Obama to recognize “the systematic and deliberate annihilation” of 1.5 million Armenians during and after World War I “as genocide.” The New York Times notes that the resolution was approved despite “a last-minute plea from the Obama administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to offend Turkey.” The third-to-last paragraph of the story suggests that plea was somewhat inconsistent with Obama’s record. “While still in the Senate,” the Times says, “Mr

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