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Found it on Facebook — rewarding sloth and vice
I found the following on Facebook: The Secret to Financial Success: You & your girlfriend can live like a king! Just follow these proven 13 steps: 1. Don’t marry her. 2. Use your mom’s address for...
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Bookworm Beat 8-11-15 — the illustrated edition, devoted to excavating the...
One of my Facebook friends is an uber-Leftist, although he does staunchly support Israel. He never puts up personal posts. Instead, his Facebook feed is filled with posters, some inspirational, some...
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Fun with fools — another “Found it on Facebook” edition, with help from my...
I had so much fun the last time I deconstructed the analytically and factually foolish posters I found on the Facebook pages of my many, many Leftist friends, that I thought I’d do it again. As...
View Article[VIDEO] Milton Friedman on immigration today versus one hundred years ago
Kudos to JK Brown for finding this Milton Friedman lecture in which he discusses the way in which the welfare state affects immigration. Europe might want to watch this video. The immigration...
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Found it on Facebook — A series of posts looking at what passes for...
Yes, it’s that time again — when I go through my Progressive friends’ Facebook posts, culling the most stupid or irritating posters. Before I do that, though, I want to quote John Hinderaker, who was...
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The Bookworm Beat 4/21/16 — a round-up and open thread
My take on the decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 in place of Andrew Jackson? I find all this change and revisionism both silly and expensive but, having said that, here’s my position: They’re...
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The Bookworm Beat 9/6/16 — the “cough, cough, cough” edition and open thread
Hillary’s cough has sounded awfully familiar to me — and today I finally figured out what Hillary’s endless coughing jags bring to mind. To back up a minute, though. . . . As anyone following the news...
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[VIDEO] Prager U explains how to raise people up from poverty
Yet another informative, persuasive Prager U video, this time with Arthur Brooks, of AEI, explaining how best to leave poverty behind. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: When it comes to...
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The poison pill hidden in America’s welfare programs
Rather than alleviating poverty, are America’s welfare programs set up to perpetuate poverty? Here’s an essay compellingly arguing that the answer is “yes.” I was lucky enough, while on Facebook, to...
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Immigration, character, welfare, and economic destiny
America’s economic growth will benefit from an immigration policy that sees people with skills come to work, not to latch onto America’s welfare benefits. A few decades ago, when I was getting my...
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