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I was thinking about all the kids who are protesting their student loans today, and how so many of them have taken their $200,000+ educations (paid for by taxpayers through the student loan program) and gone into non-profit work, virtually guaranteeing that they will never repay the money.  In other words, these students have appointed [...]

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I read someone today who said that Jesus must have been a socialist, because he didn’t seek profit, which is the hallmark of capitalism.  Instead, gave away his time, energy and skills to those who could not pay.  Since he didn’t have a profit motive, he must have been a capitalist.  QED.  It was a [...]

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I’d just like to remind you again that, if you are interested in what’s going on in Haiti — and the ways in which you can contribute to relief efforts — the Anchoress has a stellar (and tragic) series of posts on the subject.  Just toddle on over to her blog and check the whole [...]

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I am distrustful of television, since it often creates a false reality.  When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in 1989, I was out of town.  The images shown on CNN made it look as if the whole city was in ruins.  I was terrified about what had happened to my family and friends.  [...]

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Chase is giving $5 million dollars to charity.  The deal is that facebook users get to vote for the charity of their choice, and then Chase will use those votes to determine how to allocate the funds.  If you have a facebook account, think about donating to Cell Phones for Soldiers, an organization two youngsters [...]

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I somehow managed to miss it when it started, but the annual Valour-IT fundraiser is still going on (until November 11).  This fundraiser raises the monies that help to “provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries.” It is, as Martha [...]

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Some time ago, I wrote an article about romance novels in which I pointed out that many authors, to telegraph that their lead male character is reliable, strong, honorable and handy in a tense situation, give that character a military background.  In the same way, I’ve noticed when reading romance novels written by those on [...]

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You’ve probably heard that Obama called anti-socialists “selfish.” For more on the significance of that comment,this link is a good one, because it makes the point that, in Obamaland, you’re selfish if you don’t let the government take and distribute your hard earned cash. It’s useful to compare this with statistics showing that conservatives are [...]

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Much is being made of the fact that Michelle and Barack Obama, when they were earning a mere quarter million after tax dollars per year, were exceptionally stingy with their charitable donations. (See here and here, for example.) If that is the whole story of their charitable contributions, that’s pretty stingy and does not reflect [...]

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