Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 71

August 5, 2015

We are not free unless we fight for the freedom of others

If we don���t act like freedom matters overseas, we won���t act like freedom matters domestically.
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Published on August 05, 2015 04:00

July 31, 2015

Public Citizen lies to its own supporters about single-payer health care?

The biggest danger for supporters of single-payer is that the ACA is very, very close to single-payer, and they can���t face that it is causing a catastrophic rise in costs and a corresponding reduction in quality.
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Published on July 31, 2015 04:00

July 29, 2015

Cuban Cigar Aficionado

Cigar Aficionado is trying to call an old, failed approach to diplomacy ���something different��� now that it���s being applied to Cuba. But they���re just a cigar magazine. What���s sad is that the President of the United States is also pushing an old failure.
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Published on July 29, 2015 04:00

July 28, 2015

Lemon Tea Bread from O���Donnell Angel Food Cookbook

This cookbook from the O���Donnell Angel Flight of Louisiana Tech University is a real find, with authentic seventies recipes straight out of your mother���s pot lucks. Have some lemon tea bread from the Air Force southern command!
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Published on July 28, 2015 04:00

July 24, 2015

Kirk Watson emerges from cave after 200 years of isolation

Former Austin mayor confused, faint because of new laws that presume adults are children.
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Published on July 24, 2015 10:20

July 21, 2015

The Case for Democracy

When did America forget that it���s America?
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Published on July 21, 2015 04:00

July 14, 2015

The pseudo-scientific state and other evils

In 1922, following the first world war, G.K. Chesterton discovered to his dismay that the evils of the scientifically-managed state had not been killed by its application in Prussia. Unfortunately, it was also not killed by its applications in Nazi Germany.
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Published on July 14, 2015 04:00

July 12, 2015

Safari 8.0.7 can block endless alerts

The latest update to Safari on Mac OS X 10.10.4 allows blocking endless alert loops.
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Published on July 12, 2015 04:00

July 10, 2015

Global warming vs. oiled dolphins

Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming critics are more dangerous than oil execs who kill dolphins, and need to be buried deeper than two million year old bones. But this makes CAGW a non-science. Science requires criticism or it isn���t science. Science-oriented media outlets are doing CAGW scientists a disservice by protecting them from competing theories.
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Published on July 10, 2015 04:00

July 8, 2015

Allow men to impersonate exes, transgender activists say

Some transgender activists want banks to reduce the security on bank accounts, enabling abusive exes to access their victims��� bank accounts.
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Published on July 08, 2015 04:00