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Passionate people have a tendency to pull you into their world, and hi-wire walker Philippe Petit is nothing if not passionate about his craft. Regardless of what you think of the world of high-risk spectacle stunts, you can’t help but admire at least some aspects of Petit. He knows what he wants out [...] Like posting quotes, I feel links are something of a waste of room. I was gonna use Twitter to give out new links, but I can’t get Twitter on my phone and simply don’t go on it enough. So, I decided to devote a post about every two weeks to links that I enjoy (unless, [...] The always-insightful Walter Williams comments on Haiti; and the political climate that made this earthquake so disastrous. Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The 1906 [...] I wasn’t overly exited about the election of Brown, I have no delusion that republicans are vastly superior to democrats in developing and maintaining a free society. But I am very, very happy about this: In a stunning reversal of the nation’s federal campaign finance laws, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that free-speech rights permit groups [...] Properly defining the concepts that you are talking about is crucial when writing non-fiction; it is also especially important in public debate. Too often people are arguing past each other because of misunderstandings in the other’s argument Such misunderstandings are rampant in talks about “Intellectual Property.” As Sonia Arrison notes, the people talking about intellectual property [...] |
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