Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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AUMF
Posted on February 12, 2015
Congress used to declare war. Now it authorizes the use of military force. We used to go to war against countries. Now, we use military force against imaginary caliphates....
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Vaccinate Please!
Posted on February 4, 2015
James Phipps probably doesn’t ring much of bell for any of you. Neither does Edward Jenner. Phipps was the poor English boy who became the subject of an experiment that...
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The Free Market Reformer
Posted on January 19, 2015
I posted this a couple years ago, and I thought it was worth reposting: Barack Obama. Oprah Winfrey. Robert Johnson. Dick Parsons. Bill Cosby. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. It goes...
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The Fly Swat
Posted on January 9, 2015
It all started with a fly swat. In the years following Napoleon’s demise in France, the last of the Bourbon Dynasty desperately tried to hold on to power. Charles X...
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Two Reminders of What Communism Looks Like
Posted on December 18, 2014
“I have seen the future and it is now,” the famous Soviet apologist Lincoln Steffens once wrote about the Russian revolution. He turned out to be wrong, but I betcha...
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