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No Right to Health Care

By patrick | Published: August 16, 2009
Thank you John Mackey for understanding and defending rights. I might have to start shopping at Whole Foods. Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that [...]
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Who is Steve Jobs?

By patrick | Published: February 24, 2009
This isn’t a great letter, but it’s a bit reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged when they try to force John Galt to be their economic dictator to solve the countries problems. Now the suggestion: Draft Steve Jobs (his health willing) to run a combined GM and Chrysler. After all, who has done a better job developing and [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden to Endorse Sex Panther Cologne

By patrick | Published: February 15, 2009
San Francisco, CA – February 15, 2009 – Omni Consumer Products has announced a 4-year sponsorship deal with Vice President Joe Biden to endorse their product Sex Panther Cologne. “Joe’s veneer of confidence is a perfect match for what we are trying to achieve,” noted Sex Panther spokesman Brian Fantana. “We’re 40% sure this is definitely [...]
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The Big Two-Oh-Oh

By patrick | Published: February 12, 2009
In a coincidence not quite as remarkable as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dying on the same day, the 50th anniversary of America’s Independence, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day 200 years ago. Who was more influential and important to world history? Who would I rather have dinner with? These are [...]
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Mathematicians Discover Largest Number

By patrick | Published: February 11, 2009
A little about the stimulus from the one-man Onion that is Iowahawk. PALO ALTO, CA – An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value “by a totally mindblowning shitload.” Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed a “stimulus,” could [...]
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Back from CO

By patrick | Published: February 11, 2009
I spent the last week or so in Colorado with family and friends. Now that I’m back from CO and can breath a little easier, I’ll get back to posting.
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The Best Judge of How to Spend Your Money

By patrick | Published: January 26, 2009
While defending the current stimulus plan, Paul Krugman makes a ridiculous argument. [W]rite off anyone who asserts that it’s always better to cut taxes than to increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their money. Here’s how to think about this argument: it implies that we should shut down [...]
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Children of Hamas

By patrick | Published: January 26, 2009
I must have been sick on “army crawl day” in grade school. When people tell you that both sides in the middle east conflict want peace, show them what Hamas is teaching their kids.
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The Next Right Same as The Old Right

By patrick | Published: January 25, 2009
I was hoping that the post “Putting the ‘Next’ Into ‘Next Right’: Retooling vs. Restructuring” would offer a proper defense of capitalism. This is the issue that lost McCain the election and the Right needs to be “retooled” to understand and explain the moral right to free markets. Unfortunately, I found the same consequentialism that [...]
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MSM Still Dying

By patrick | Published: January 25, 2009
The internet has already overtaken newspapers and the protracted demise of the medium is given another nudge as internet giant Google ends its print ad program. In the last few months, we’ve been taking a long, hard look at all the things we are doing to ensure we are investing our resources in the projects that [...]
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