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Should conservatives care about conservation? Reading Lomborg
Should true conservatives be worried about conservation? Is the concern about consuming and contaminating our natural resources a bunch of ill-informed liberal vaporing, unsupported by fact? My ex-business partner–a Republican who votes Democratic on occasion–has taken me to task on this point (not for the first time). He points to Bjorn Lumborg’s book, The Skeptical…
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U.S. Intelligence Report: Iraq is Making the World More Dangerous
The National Intelligence Council* just issued Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project. Significant among its findings: Iraq is a training ground for terrorists. "The al-Qa’ida membership that was distinguished by having trained in Afghanistan will gradually dissipate, to be replaced in part by the dispersion of the experienced survivors…
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Social Security: Sham “Risk” Arguments
I hate it when people who I agree with use stupid arguments to support their (our) positions. It sets us up as straw-men that our rhetorical opponents can swat at will. The AARP’s ads about Social Security privatization fall right into that trap. Their position? Privatized funds invested in the market are like gambling. "If…
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Insurgents surging in from inside and outside
It seems that the military is pretty unclear on what an "insurgent" is, as well. As reported in the VOA News (that’s Voice of America) on Dec. 16, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General George Casey expressed " concern that insurgents are still infiltrating into Iraq from across its border with Syria. General…