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In a little-known 2006 speech (in the US, though widely known around the world), entitled "The End of Dollar Hegemony," Ron Paul discusses the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system - which most people know about - and the de-facto system that replaced it - which most people do not know about. As...

Mainly for the quoted comments re this nightmarish insurance exchange.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/10/the_death_spiral_begins.html

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Those shocking bourgeois values

By Glenn H. Reynolds
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In one traditional form of pornography, from the Victorian “A Man With a Maid” to the more recent “Fifty Shades of...

Our Truest Lies
If the truth doesn’t serve social justice — well, tell a noble lie.

By Victor Davis Hanson


At the end of John Ford’s classic Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the editor of the local paper decides not to print...

You're still legally dead, judge tells Fostoria man
By RYAN DUNN

Donald Eugene Miller Jr. walked out of Hancock County Probate Court on Monday as legally dead as ever.

In 1994, the court ruled that...