By Will Thomas of the Atlas Society: "I’m a bit of a racist. I’ll bet you are one, too. "Okay, no one wants to admit it. But I find I’m like most people: I take race seriously in making practical decisions. I think American blacks are likely to be less efficient and less capable at most jobs than are Amer...(Read more...)
King's Dream And Today's Racial Nightmare By Edward Hudgins August 27, 2013 -- Fifty years ago this week Martin Luther King led the March on Washington for black civil rights. Look at the aerial photos of the 200,000 participants in the rally, stretched out in front of the Lincoln Memorial, down the Mall, and aro...(Read more...)
Introductory excerpt from this "RadioLab" radio show on NPR (audio available at link above): The year was 1961, the same year Adolf Eichman went on trial for Nazi war crimes. His defense boiled down to the assertion that he was just following orders. Enter Stanley Milgrim. His now-notorious experiment at Yale found tha...(Read more...)
People living in Argentina are paying more for bitcoins than those living in the US as, faced with an annual inflation rate of around 25%, they turn their backs on their national currency.(Read more...)
An 11 month old baby exclusively breastfed by a vegan mother has died and the parents are charged with neglect after an autopsy indicated the baby suffered from deficiencies in vitamin B12 and Vitamin A – both known to be critical to a child’s development. Vegans have long been advised to take B12 supplements as...(Read more...)
Good News! POTUS Obama, who came into office in 2008 in the middle of a national recession 1646 days ago, has freshly told the nation that he will now focus on jobs, jobs, jobs for the next 1276 days. It just takes a while to realize that the problem with unemployment is not enough jobs. That is, w...(Read more...)
