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Mystery solved. I first heard about the deadly flu pandemic of 1918 in an obscure blues song from that era.

Finally, the private sector figures out how to move peopl

The story of the debacle at Walter Reed that the Washington Post broke has generated commentary all over the place.

In Jan Narveson’s thought-provoking and elegantly-written The Libertarian Idea (1990), he discusses an admission by a Marxist,

As reported and summarized here, a divided three-judge panel for the United Stat

I learned a new word from the TV yesterday.

The events in recent months in Venezuela provide a textbook example of statolatry—the term po

Timothy Noah’s Would You Privatize Defense?The case for socialized medicine, Part 1

Traveled to a big city lately? If so, you must have gotten words of wisdom from someone close to you.

Sophistpundit gives What Has Government Done to Our Money (