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A Century On, the First World War is Still Being Played Out
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Getting at the truth

with Niall Fergusonvia Boston Globe
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the egregious president of Iran, is hosting a conference this week on whether the Holocaust really happened...

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Carter's narrow niche

by Arnold Beichmanvia Washington Times
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

In judging the intellectual and moral caliber of Jimmy Carter and the meaning of his new anti-Israel book, we should keep in mind he was probably the worst president in modern times...

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Hoover Institution Press: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

with Thomas Sowellvia Hoover Institution
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

In Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (Hoover Institution Press, 2006), Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues—along with “the culture wars”—in this latest collection of his controversial, always thought-provoking essays...

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Brutal Pinochet era won't be forgotten

with Milton Friedmanvia Chicago Sun-Times
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

For most Chileans, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, who died Sunday after complications from a heart attack, was a rapacious dictator, a man who ordered the execution of thousands of his own people, tortured others and sent many into exile -- like the present president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet...

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A Primer on Free Banking

with Milton Friedmanvia Free-Market News Network
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The well-known monetary economist David Laidler, in a thoughtful recent paper on “Free Banking and the Bank of Canada” (Bank of Canada Review, Winter 2005), worries about natural monopoly in the banking industry on a commodity money standard: “the centralizing tendencies in reserve holding inherent in banking systems would undermine its competitiveness..."

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The World War II Study Group

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Examiner
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

It was a couple of months after D-Day, the results of the European land war were awful — 2,500 casualties a day for allied forces — and Americans were getting jittery...

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Mr. Lonely

by Josef Joffevia New York Times Book Review
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Is the United Nations boring and irrelevant?

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Sowell countered socialist liberalism

with Thomas Sowellvia Sun-Sentinel
Saturday, December 9, 2006

Your deletion of Thomas Sowell from your editorial pages is a terrible loss...

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On Milton Friedman's Unfinished Work

with Milton Friedmanvia National Journal
Friday, December 8, 2006

My previous column had closed and gone to press when I heard that Milton Friedman had died...

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For what should we really thank computer guru?

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom Communications
Friday, December 8, 2006

PBS's Charlie Rose recently had Bill Gates back on his show, and it was around Thanksgiving...

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