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I want them to feel that they are somebody and their congressman is somebody. And when they say, 'This is nice,' it feels good.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
US News & World Report (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/05/02/out-loud-may-2-2008.html)

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A City Committed to Recycling Is Ready for More
Posted by Scott Cram on 5/08, 11:53pm

San Francisco is considering a new law that would punish people for not providing coerced labor free of charge. Their justification for this is in the name of already-subsidized recycling.(Read more...)

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Head of Al Qaeda in Iraq - Captured?
Posted by Ted Keer on 5/08, 4:17pm

Unconfirmed reports by the Iraqi government say Abu Ayyub Al Masri has been captured in a raid in Mosul. DNA tests are being performed.(Read more...)

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CEOs Pushing Ayn Rand Studies Use Money to Overcome Resistance
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 5/07, 12:39am

"Ayn Rand's novels of headstrong entrepreneurs' battles against convention enjoy a devoted following in business circles. While academia has failed to embrace Rand, calling her philosophy simplistic, schools have agreed to teach her works in exchange for a donation."(Read more...)

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May 5, 2008

Emotional Responses and Selecting Values by Joseph Rowlands

In the last lecture, I talked about how intrinsic values can't be rationally compared, so you're left with just feeling your way to a solution. This is a pretty serious problem, and what we're going to focus on in this thread. (Read more...)
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Here at home, our State Department is advising its officials to avoid perfectly descriptive terms for our enemies like "jihadist" and "Islamo-fascist" in favor of vague terms like "violent extremist" or "terrorist" -- as if we could just as easily be fighting Basque separatists.

Victor Davis Hanson
The Half-Won, Half-Lost War

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