Modern free traders, on the other hand, embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They allow no room for practicality, nuance or flexibility. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become a superpower. They see only bright lines, even when it means bowing to the whims of anti-American bureaucrats at ( Read more... )

So I took the day off of work today. I almost forgot to let work know that ( Read more... )

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He said it only happened once - right after the war, when he got word that Harry Truman wanted to see him. “We met in an irregular-shaped room,” Mr. Tibbets said, almost certainly referring to the Oval Office. “It was short and quick. He offered me a cup of coffee. Truman asked me if anyone was giving me a hard time, saying unpleasant things to me ( Read more... )

On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

"No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind." - Mark Helprin, NYTimes Opinion Article

( I beg to differ. )

I wish more rich people were like this:

His children will not inherit a significant proportion of his wealth. These actions are consistent with statements he has made in the past indicating his opposition to the transfer of great fortunes from one generation to the next. Buffett once commented, "I want to give my kids enough so that they could feel ( Read more... )

I spent the last three days dual booting my laptop and installing ubuntu and windows on my machine with a huge commons space. Its now done! All my data is backed up too! So now I can get to work!

4 big assignments left for the semester! woot!

Don

So this is a hypothetical situation ( Read more... )

So most of you that read this are from college. You never met or knew my friend Mecca. Or her step-father, Jim ( Read more... )