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Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist, Dies at 84

with Seymour Martin Lipsetvia New York Times
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, who ignored family pressure to be a dentist and instead became a pre-eminent sociologist, political scientist and incisive theorist on American uniqueness, died on Dec. 31 in Arlington, Va...

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Influential social scientist Lipset dies

with Seymour Martin Lipsetvia Associated Press
Thursday, January 4, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, an influential social scientist interested in the peculiarities of U.S. political culture, has died...

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Hoover Senior Fellow Seymour Martin Lipset Dies

with Seymour Martin Lipset, John Raisianvia Business Wire
Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Seymour Martin Lipset, a renowned political sociologist who was also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of public policy emeritus at George Mason University, died December 31, 2006, in Arlington, Virginia...

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Jeb Bush Ponders Future, Not Knowing What It Holds

with Peter Schweizervia New York Times
Tuesday, January 2, 2007

When the same old irksome question popped up recently at one of his final public events here, Gov. Jeb Bush, addressing Spanish-speaking reporters, gave an atypically dramatic answer: “Yo no tengo futuro,” or “I have no future..."

Analysis and Commentary

A Capital Thinker

by Peter M. Robinson with Milton Friedmanvia Stanford Magazine
Monday, January 1, 2007

Milton Friedman was an unlikely candidate to become a great man...

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Taylor Rule Remains a Guiding Tool for Fed

with John B. Taylorvia Stanford Magazine
Monday, January 1, 2007

Prior to his service at the U.S. Treasury from 2001 to 2005, John Taylor had two previous policy-making stints in Washington...

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Judging President Ford

by Tod Lindbergvia Washington Times
Monday, January 1, 2007

t's not every politician who gets to write the headline for his own obituary...

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The Return of Milton Friedman

with Milton Friedmanvia Say Anything
Monday, January 1, 2007

A while ago Rob (you remember Rob don’t you) started to post the Free to Choose PBS series by Milton Friedman...

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The Symbiotic Conjoining of Liberalism and Militant Islam

with Milton Friedmanvia Human Events Online
Friday, December 29, 2006

We are now five years into our more pronounced focus on the perverse ideology of the global collective that is the waging of jihad and the push to Caliphate...

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The Housing Market Slows, Charity Gains and Economics Loses Two Great Thinkers

with Milton Friedmanvia Voice of America
Friday, December 29, 2006

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report...

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The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.