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Many people are confused and misled by widely accepted wrong definitions and notions of capitalism. Check this latest example, the New York Times Sunday Book Review on Ayn Rand: But Cerf offered Rand an alternative: if she gave up 7 cents per copy in royalties, she could have the extra paper needed to print Galt’s [...]

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The facts Obama released the Torture Memo and said that those who designed the rules for torture may face criminal charges. It was reported most recently here, here, and here. Watch Obama talk about it here. Counterarguments His opponents (Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Really) argue that:

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Passover, Tea Parties, Slavery, and Redistribution? All of these are connected. Only 53% of Americans believe capitalism is better than socialism. How does socialism differ from capitalism? Redistribution. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” “Social justice.” “Economic justice.” “Fairness.” Paying for somebody else’s housing – redistribution. Paying for somebody [...]

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Look at some of my favorite signs from this Friday’Teaparty:

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1. You said: “Now, if we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that for too long, we have not always met these responsibilities — as a government or as a people.” As a people, what did we do? What are you accusing us for?

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It is well established that a mother transfers brain energy to her child both during pregnancy and during breastfeeding. See for example here. But do you know what Fret is? Have you heard about Deeksha? Fret stands short for fluorescence energy transfer. It’s an application of nanotechnology developed by the scientists at Stanford University and [...]

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 Iraq… world’s highest percentage of people in prison… warrantless phone and email searches… Fed printing money as if there’s no tomorrow… state prevention of medical use of marijuana and other drugs… suspension of  habeas corpus… searching your shoes at the airports… government’s new authority for taking private property from one citizen to selling it to [...]

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I won the last 16th annual New York State Open chess championship. The tournament was held on June 21-22 in Lake George, NY at Howard Johnson Tiki Resort. I’ve shared first and second prize with Daniel Lawinger which makes two of us 2008 cochampions. The tournament consisted of five games. Because I chose to play [...]

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reddit_url = ‘http://www.publicani.com/difference-between-createspace-and-booksurge-publishers/’; Amazon has two POD (Print-On-Demand) publishers: BookSurge and CreateSpace. Amazon owns CreateSpace and, I believe, “almost” owns BookSurge. For additional cost, BookSurge offers complimentary services while CreateSpace does not. I used some of the services BookSurge provides and was always happy with those. BookSurge does a good job and is practically always [...]

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This discussion is a continuation of Direct taxation kills freedom, indirect taxation does not. So, if I understand correctly, you would support green taxes that charge for resource use, such as water taxes, oil taxes, pollution taxes, land taxes, food taxes, etc? To me that seems realistically achievable in our lifetimes. Ryan Suppose there are [...]

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