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The Theocon Menace IFRL-TLC-Scenery-david-marcu-114194-unsplash

The Theocon Menace

Erik Kain February 20, 2009
Damon Linker is beating the same drum he’s been beating for some time now, warning against a...
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Leaving the Right to Save the Right IFRL-TLC-Patterns-cellarius-seasons

Leaving the Right to Save the Right

Mark of New Jersey February 20, 2009
Amongst several others, Ross Douthat has some really good thoughts on my arguments for a more liberal...
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Growth and Prosperity IFRL-TLC-Patterns-GAPD-reinasofia.guitar-with-inlays-301

Growth and Prosperity

Erik Kain February 20, 2009
The loss of our self-understanding as parts of a whole meant that individuals who achieved material success...
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Freddie February 20, 2009
This depends a bit on perspective and I can’t say that it’s 100% true. But an emailer...
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To Nationalize or Not To Nationalize? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-vangogh.the-white-orchard-12

To Nationalize or Not To Nationalize?

Dave February 20, 2009
Barry Ritholtz has posted a nice collection of links from different sources arguing for or against bank...
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Banking In Common(s) IFRL-NaPP-Space-P01-Explorers-Wanted-NASA-Recruitment-Poster

Banking In Common(s)

Chris Dierkes February 20, 2009
In the comments to my earlier post on The Commons Br. Kain wrote: I would like you...
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Too cool… IFRL-Mindiv-alex-knight-199368-unsplash

Too cool…

Erik Kain February 19, 2009
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo. via Andrew: 6,000 separate paintings … and one five minute animated...
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Apple v. Microsoft IFRL-Mindiv-vlah-dumitru-519775-unsplash

Apple v. Microsoft

Freddie February 19, 2009
Cast your mind back, gentle reader, to the heady days of early 2002, when the original Xbox...
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Republican Hypocrites IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tretyakov.moscow-patio-195

Republican Hypocrites

Erik Kain February 19, 2009
Okay, a fun little photo album here, and more hypocritical acts of “dissent” here and here from...
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islamism as political not religious ideology

Chris Dierkes February 19, 2009
(Image via Flickr-er markkilner, Creative Commons) — Ghaffar Hussain, former member of British Islamist group Hizb ut...
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Killing Frankenstein’s Monster IFRL-TLC-Patterns-GAPD-tretyakov.blessed-be-the-host-of-the-king-of-heaven-46b

Killing Frankenstein’s Monster

Mark of New Jersey February 19, 2009
Downblog, Chris puts together a fantastic post that quite well explains the ways in which modern liberalism...
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Self-Identification, pluralism, and all that… IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.the-plains-of-heaven-96

Self-Identification, pluralism, and all that…

Erik Kain February 19, 2009
Okay.  So, after writing this and unintentionally sparking a number of reactions including a pretty good number...
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A Time for Anger: Fisking the Times IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.venice-with-the-salute-314

A Time for Anger: Fisking the Times

Mark of New Jersey February 19, 2009
Earlier, Freddie pointed to an excellent run-down of the various problems with the utterly thoughtless piece of...
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tongue-twisterisms

Erik Kain February 18, 2009
Is it just me or has there been a lot phrases bandied about lately that come, for...
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from my ink-stained hands IFRL-NaPP-Space-P03-Farmers-Wanted-NASA-Recruitment-Poster

from my ink-stained hands

Freddie February 18, 2009
I found this post to be a good rundown of why the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act...
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The Tone-Deafness of the “Statism” Charge IFRL-TLC-Scenery-Wunderwald-Berlin2

The Tone-Deafness of the “Statism” Charge

Mark of New Jersey February 18, 2009
Jonah Goldberg argues that a left-libertarian fusionism is not only doomed to failure but is in fact...
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liberalisms

Chris Dierkes February 18, 2009
K. Anthony Appiah writes: Alan Wolfe is the sort of social theorist who would rather be plausible...
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Not quite there yet… IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-24290240424_b0af08e9d2_b

Not quite there yet…

Dave February 18, 2009
Maybe one day I’ll write about something other than the markets, but today is not that day. ...
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the foul rag and bone shop of real politics IFRL-TLC-War-specna-arms-1120115-unsplash

the foul rag and bone shop of real politics

Freddie February 18, 2009
You may have to put some of this in your Helen Rittelmeyer-style “things I believe but cannot...
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“by no definition of the word…” IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-1024px-Jörg_Breu_dJ_Die_Lebensalter_des_Mannes

“by no definition of the word…”

Erik Kain February 18, 2009
1. Please see an update to this post here. Okay, so right off the bat I’ve taken...
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