And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
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What Part of Pulling Out Does Obama Not Understand?
Will now leave almost 6,000 troops in Afghanistan in 2017.
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Rand Paul’s Fumbling on Gay Discrimination Question Was Eminently Avoidable
The right answer needs the right argument to avoid callousness.
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Rand Paul's Campaign Memo Says That Rand Paul's Campaign Rules and is Here to Stay
Ground game, history, youth appeal in Iowa, and smartly spent cash on hand will keep Paul in the game for the long haul, campaign insists.
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Paul Ryan Borrows a Mitt Romney Power Play in House Speaker Race
Did Ryan take a page out of Romney's playbook from the Bain and Company turnaround?
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Hajji Putin, the Shiite
Russian president ‘Abdulamir Abutin’ is pretty popular in Iraq
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Are Obama and America to Blame for Syria's Disaster?
"ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror" co-author Michael Weiss on how Obama allowed a bad situation to get worse in Syria.
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Putin Will Find Appearances Can Deceive in Syria
Russia will suffer if intervention fails.
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Why Is Hillary Clinton So Unhappy?
We can start with the fact that she is her own worst enemy.
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The Feds Shouldn't Prosecute Dylann Roof
Redundant charges against the Charleston shooter highlight the unconstitutional absurdity of the federal hate crime statute.
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Only an Unprincipled Congress Would Revive the Ex-Im Bank
Fight over the crony-capitalist program highlights all that's wrong with Washington
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Against The Anti-Politician Politicians
An anti-politician politician is someone who holds that the only thing wrong with government is that professionals run it. He or she never eschews power itself.
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The 3 Best and Worst Moments of the First Democratic Debate
Is there hope for liberty lovers among the Democrats?
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The DemDebate Clarified That Many Libertarian Views Have Gone Mainstream
Clinton, Sanders, Webb, O'Malley, and Chaffee are nobody's idea of small-government crusaders, but they got some things right.
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Sorry, Bernie Sanders. Raising the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour Wouldn’t Create Millions of Jobs. But It Might Destroy Them.
This is an idea that’s become increasingly common amongst more liberal Democratic politicians and policymakers.
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Sanders: 'When a Mother Has a Baby, She Should Stay Home With That Baby'
Bernie's debate gaffe reveals a serious problem with mandatory family leave policies.
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Penn Jillette: Bernie Sanders is the ‘one person in this race who's actually genuine and not crazy’ [UPDATE: Penn sez 'You are right, I am wrong']
Libertarian magician praises the socialist and disses Rand Paul
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Censorship in America
Free speech matters.
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Donald Trump Loves Land Grabs
The billionaire developer's broad view of eminent domain is good for him but bad for property rights.
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Sanders Suddenly Becomes Pot-Friendliest Major-Party Candidate
Clinton is still noncommittal on marijuana legalization, even though she mistakenly thinks most low-level, nonviolent offenders in prison are there for smoking pot.
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Some Democrats Deserve Praise for NSA and Snowden Stances. Hillary Clinton, Not So Much.
Clinton says Snowden should 'face the music'
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Rand Paul: ‘Idiots in the Republican Party’ Want War in Syria and So Does Hillary Clinton
Candid moment from Paul's livestream
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What Has Bernie Sanders Proposed in the 2016 Campaign So Far?
Free stuff's the limit.
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Democratic Debate Cocktails!
Will you drink "The Hillary," "The Bernie Sanders," or "The Biden"?
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A Libertarian-Gay Divorce?
Government-sponsored discrimination is nearly eradicated. So what's left to work together on?
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Baby Boomers Share Blame for Today's Censorship-Happy Students
The students of today aren't super-coddled, they're just following the logic of censorship that earlier liberals either helped to set in motion or shrugged their shoulders at.
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Sloppy U.N. Cyberviolence Report Uses Damsels in Digital Distress to Cheer Censorship
Why did the U.N. feel justified in recommending such illiberal censorship policies while providing such shoddy evidence to back their claims?
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New York’s Unlicensed Cabbies, and Their Passengers, Get a Long Overdue Break
As the city’s assault on gypsy cabs gets a slap, and restrictions are eased, maybe it’s time for officials to just get out of the way.
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How Silicon Valley Is Abetting Anti-Beef Hindu Barbarians in India
Mark Zuckerberg can atone for embracing Narendra Modi by sponsoring for asylum the family of the man lynched for eating beef.
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2016 GOP Candidates Could Learn Something From 'Bleeding Heart Conservative' Jack Kemp
They don't make Republicans like Jack Kemp anymore.
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How Much Charity Care Do Hospitals Really Provide?
If the public is being asked to pay more for charity care, and it is, then it's reasonable to ask exactly what it's getting for its money.
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Eisenhower's Timeless Virtues
If only more presidents aspired to do less.
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A Major Step Toward Less Unjust Sentences
Bipartisan bills could help free Weldon Angelos and thousands of other drug offenders.
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We Live in a World Where Experts Say the Shooting of Tamir Rice Was ‘Reasonable’
The cop's life is the only one that matters, even if the threat is nonexistent.
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City-Run Broadband Internet Is a Disaster in the Making
These projects aren’t fiscally responsible, but the FCC has given them a thumbs up.
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Link Between State Gun Laws and Fatal Shootings Not as Simple as It Seems
About that National Journal gun chart…
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Hard Times Ahead for Advocates of Peace and Free Markets
For liberty lovers it will be a long road to November 8, 2016.
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The More You Politicize Guns the Weaker Your Case Becomes
For the liberal, every societal problem has a state-issued remedy waiting to be administered.
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California Equal Pay Law Mainly Boosts Pay of Lawyers
Governor signs bill that makes it easier to file discrimination grievance.
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Cuddles Incorporated
What's wrong with selling snuggles for $1 per minute?
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Cheap Fast Powerful Gene-Editing Will Soon Change the World
Bioethicists are again trying to stand athwart progress, yelling stop
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Movie Review: Steve Jobs
Michael Fassbender’s riveting take on the man who changed the world.
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How to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps
Guns - and the Second Amendment - won't just disappear.
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McDonald's 'Cage Free' Edict Gets Activists Clucking
Market decisions do more than new laws
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Television Tackles Invasive Behavior—Both Digital and Romantic
CyberWar Threat and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend may make you paranoid for completely different reasons.
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Donald Trump Trashes the Constitution, Endorses Eminent Domain Abuse
Trump's support for Kelo v. City of New London reveals his fundamentally unconstitutional support for eminent domain abuse.
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Asian Nail Salon Staff Demand Apology From The New York Times for Poverty-Porn Series That's Costing Them Jobs
Liberals love laborers in theory but seem to love their sense of moral superiority more.
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Kevin McCarthy Drops His Bid for House Speaker, Throws Race into Chaos
Could John Boehner be forced to stay Speaker?
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Here It Comes: Wash Post Writer Calls for "A Gun-Free Society"
Despite continuing declines in gun violence, Fred Hiatt says enough is enough.
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4 Reasons 'Universal Background Checks' for Gun Buyers Are a Bad Idea
An expanded requirement would be ineffective, unjust, and unenforceable.
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'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom' Comes to Netflix
Q&A with documentary director Evgeny Afineevsky
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Hillary's Gun Proposals Assault the Constitution
Clinton wants to make gun manufacturers financially liable for misuse of their products and require background checks for all gun transfers.
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Ben Carson and the Politics of Fantasy
Not all surgeons are firmly grounded in the real world.
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Speak Now, Congress, or Forever Maintain the Status Quo
A to-do list for the new Speaker of the House
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The Baseball Commissioner Who Made Bush President
The culture, politics, and economics of baseball in the Bud Selig era
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Yes, Fantasy Sports Companies Are ‘Regulated’
Is the problem a lack of transparency, lack of tax revenue, or sore losers?
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What's Really Wrong with Obama's Syria Approach, and Why His Critics' Approach is Worse
Doing something for no good reason isn't a viable policy doctrine.
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3 Important Speech and Sex Stories From the College Outrage Files: Fall 2015
Campus speech and sex repression likely to continue, but there's some good news
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Today’s Big News Won’t Be Known for Years
There's a lot of great news happening right now. We just won't know about it for a while.
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Escaping Tyranny in North Korea
One woman's harrowing journey to freedom.
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Hillary Clinton's Simple-Minded Gun Control Ideas
Like the president, the presumptive Democratic nominee assumes we can identify mass shooters before they strike.
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Expecting Scientifically Sound Nutritional Guidance from the Feds? Fat Chance.
Nina Teicholz, critic of a federal dietary guidance committee, talks about her work.
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Dilbert's Scott Adams on Politics, Philosophy, Hypnosis, and "Failing Towards Success"
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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump's "Linguistic Kill Shots"
Is Trump using powerful hypnosis and persuasion techniques hidden to manipulate us all?
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Why Was There a 12-Year Gap in the Gun Debate?
What happened to gun control from 2000 to 2012? Funny you should ask...
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Let States Build Their Own Highways
Congress can't pass a real transportation bill. And it shouldn't have to.
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Yes, the Second Amendment Protects Individual Rights
What The New Yorker gets wrong about guns and the Constitution.
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John Boehner’s Missing Agenda
The outgoing Speaker of the House leaves a Republican party that’s fractured and directionless.
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Rep. Chaffetz Holds Some Terrible Views. Would That Make Him a Bad Speaker?
He definitely wouldn’t be a voice of libertarian conservatism.
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Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
National Review writer blames U.S. bombing of hospital in Kunduz on...Taliban
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