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POPSThe Other Hispanic Nominee We keep hearing about how Sotomayor is the first Hispanic nominated for the SCOTUS. That's only because Democrats didn't allow another judge anywhere near the position....
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POPSIn India it is illegal to offend The problem with that, of course, is that anyone, at any time, can decide what the law is. "He, I'm offended by what that guy just said. Arrest him! Frighteningly, Canada has a very similar law, and the USA is headed in the same direction.
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POPSUS Financial System -- What comes next? *sigh* Naturally, I'm one of those guys described in that last paragraph.... _However_, I do not go along with the statements that this is as bad as 1929. I think we're looking at the mid-late 70s again -- and a bunch of lovely new government regulations intended to clean up the mess left from the last round of government regulations....
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POPSTrue Socialism...? I found it here: http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2008/09/quote-of-day_10.html ..where the blogger states (correctly), "Thus, in one paragraph Von Mises explains why 'true socialism' has apparently never been tried."