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The Permission for Resistance

Brief except of a talk at the 92nd Street Y between Salman Rushdie and Irshad Manji, discussing the possibility of reform against extremism in the Islamic faith. Rushdie draws a fine parallel with the experience of the Western left during … Continue reading

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Palin Tactical Confusion on the Left

Dick Durbin renews the Democratic attack on Palin’s experience, and calls for a retreat on family slander. It’s pretty much back and forth between the two attack vectors day-to-day in Democratic circles. They don’t know how to deal with her … Continue reading

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Running Aground Over Sarah Palin

Paul Begala laments the fact that McCain didn’t select a vice presidential candidate who is more traditional, old, boring, uninspiring…in essence, an ossified agent of the establishment, like Joe Biden for instance. Well, he doesn’t quite phrase it that way, … Continue reading

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A Conservative Blueprint for Health Care?

Ryan Ellis, the Tax Policy Director at Americans for Tax Reform, presents 3 principles of conservative health care. Principle 1: Conservative health care reform should neither raise taxes nor increase the size of government. You’d think this would be a … Continue reading

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Sad News for Zambia

Levy Mwanawasa, Zambia’s dynamic capitalist/reformist leader who engineered a remarkable economic turnaround and a dramatic crackdown on corruption, does not look likely to recover from a stroke he suffered in June. He remains heavily sedated in a Paris hospital and … Continue reading

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Hippocrates Unbound

The idea of state funded and administered universal health care is a bugbear of libertarians everywhere, and especially those who are subjected to such a system as a matter of course. Routinely held up as one of the worst of … Continue reading

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Free Market Reforms

More successful politically than is commonly believed.

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