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Freaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions

Published on 15 May 2017 Democrats and Republicans are pivoting on issues faster than a bipolar swing dancer on a merry-go-round. Republicans are now big government protectionists. Democrats support...

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Exploring Fort Douaumont With The VERDUN Developers I THE GREAT WAR Special

Published on 15 May 2017 Join our Live Stream with the Developers: http://twitch.com/tgw_series Check out Verdun: http://www.verdungame.com/ We went to the Verdun area in France this winter and...

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QotD: Britain’s post-Brexit access to the single market

You see, they think they are granting us a privilege by allowing us to sell them things. This is ludicrous of course, it is imports which make us richer, not exports. But let us humour their delusion...

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The Only 3 Sandpapers You Really Need | SANDING BASICS

Published on 20 May 2016 Sanding can be time-consuming, tedious and one of the dustiest, messiest, most boring tasks in woodworking. But it’s also something that you’ll have to do in just about every...

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Sid Meier interview

Last week, Chris Suellentrop talked to the legendary Sid Meier about the Civilization series and other games: The first Civilization was released more than a quarter-century ago in 1991, after being...

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NASA swings for the Moon … and misses

Robert Zubrin is not a fan of NASA’s recent announcement of a planned lunar orbital station as its next major goal, calling it “NASA’s worst plan yet”: At the recent Space Foundation conference held in...

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The amazing luck of Il Donalduce

For all the things that Donald Trump does wrong (and you can just reference the headlines of any newspaper or mainstream web site for a long list), he had one thing going for him: the fact that his...

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QotD: The state as “hero”

Ever since Hegel or maybe Plato, statists have been telling a story about government in which government itself is the hero in an epic struggle. At least for Hegel, the state was the mechanism by which...

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The Avengers On Location (1966)

Published on 13 Apr 2014 Beaulieu, Hampshire. At Lord Montagu’s Motor Museum we see the filming of the ‘tag’ pieces for episodes of The Avengers television series, where Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee...

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If you subsidize art, you’ll get more [bad] art

I missed this when it got posted initially … Theodore Dalrymple on an Irish government initiative to actually audit the art they’re busy subsidizing: Like most governments these days, the Irish...

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World of Warships – HMS Hood

Published on 17 May 2017 Look up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No don’t be silly, it’s HMS Hood. Bugger off with your Superman jokes, Jingles. Related posts: World of Warships – HMS...

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You Can’t Trust Employment Statistics

Published on 17 May 2017 There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that unemployment is consistently improving. But when we...

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QotD: Outpatient psychiatry

Now I am halfway done with my residency. I will be switching to outpatient work. Everyone who sees me will be there because they want to see me, or at worst because their...

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Diana Rigg on Farts, Knickers, Breast Size and Stage Nudity

Published on 6 Nov 2015 Portions of a fun interview with Mr. Cavett (America’s best interviewer) from years gone by. Related posts: Escaped Colombian convict gets sex change to avoid recapture The...

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Marijuana use promotes incoherence … on the part of non-users

Chris Selley rounds up some of the less-than-realistic concerns of the anti-legalization folks: The move toward marijuana legalization is … still not as coherent as it could be, let’s say. The Liberal...

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Common Sense Soapbox #1: Fake News is Old News

Published on 18 May 2017 The term “Fake News” gets thrown around all the time, but what is it? Sometimes it’s just a phrase people use to to discredit information or sources they don’t like. But there...

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“Everything is a potentially impeachable offence or an indication that Trump...

Jay Currie says that the ongoing epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome is worse than the 2001-2009 Bush Derangement Syndrome outbreak or even the 1969-1974 media demonization of Richard Nixon: There...

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Tenth Battle of The Isonzo River – Trotsky Arrives in Petrograd I THE GREAT...

Published on 18 May 2017 The Italian Front has been quiet over the winter and while the Austrians used the time to improve their defences, the Italian Army prepared another offensive near the Isonzo...

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QotD: Speaking (actual) truth to (actual) power

Nobody should want journalists ever to fear attacking the behavior of the U.S. military when they have actual evidence that it is wrong. Militaries are dangerous and terrible things, and a free press...

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Top 10 ugliest Warships (Pre 1930’s)

Published on 31 Jul 2015 WARNING! Ugly lives here! My Top 10 ugliest warships (Pre 1930’s) This video showcases some of the ugliest warships ever made. From a sunken barn with a gun mounted on top, to...

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