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Disney Offers High School Musicals and Boozy Frat Parties

with Peter Schweizervia Cybercast News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Walt Disney Company generally elicits respect from children and adults as the media leader when it comes to traditional family entertainment...

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Carter Country

with Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steelevia Opinion Journal (Wall Street Journal)
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

During the summer of 1976, Stephen Carter worked as an intern at what was then the Atlanta Journal...

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Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything

by Russ Roberts with Barry R. Weingastvia EconTalk
Monday, August 13, 2007

Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, talks about the ideas in his forthcoming book with Doug North and John Wallis, A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History...

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Two worlds

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Thursday, August 9, 2007

Here is a very nice essay by GMU student Geoffrey Lea on Hayek's argument that we need to behave differently when we interact with friends and family compared to the strangers we meet in the extended order of market transactions...

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Poverty Rates II

via Hoover Institution
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

The poverty rate among the elderly have declined substantially over the past 45 years...

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Innovative Approach to Censorship

by Diane Ravitchvia Huffington Post
Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Imagine this scenario...

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Social Causes of the Obesity "Epidemic"

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, August 5, 2007

Obesity is defined usually as a body-mass index of 30 or greater, where the body-mass index adjusts weight for height by dividing weight in kilograms by the square of height in meters...

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Title Search

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Friday, August 3, 2007

I learned a lot from all the comments and suggestions I've received about the title for my next book...

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Statewide remembrances considered

with George P. Shultz, Condoleezza Ricevia San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, August 1, 2007

The impact of Bill Walsh's death is just beginning to reverberate throughout the Bay Area and state...

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Journalistic Royalty

by Thomas Sowellvia Creators Syndicate
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Many, if not most, college commencement addresses are essentially special interest advertising...

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