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    Warren Buffett’s sinister view on taxes

    By: Frederick (Diary)  |  August 30th at 07:14 PM  | 

    I can rephrase Dr. Goldstein’s anecdote in just a few words: “Your money or your life.” I’ve never met Matthew Goldstein, but judging by his bio I don’t think it’s something I’d like to do. It reads like a stereotype of the elitist, leftist intelligentsia. A B.A. in English and History, an M.A. in World and Comparative Literature (whatever that means) and a Ph.D. in | Read More »

    No MRIs, but there were doctors

    By: Frederick (Diary)  |  March 25th at 12:00 AM  | 

    Hullabaloo, a Liberal blog, posted a little gem:  ”There were no MRIs in 1780.” Ignoring the fact that the United States had not yet forced Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown in 1780 (and hence, no Articles of Confederation, let alone a Constitution, had been ratified), the line of reasoning by the author is sophomoric at best and intellectually dishonest at worst. Nowhere in the constitution does | Read More »

    On silos and the healing power of tea

    By: Frederick (Diary)  |  January 26th at 07:30 PM  | 

    The concept of a silo is a rather simple one:  A vertical tower or a shaft dug in the ground where items of like types, usually freshly harvested grains, can be kept.  Silos are useful for storing large quantities of like products.  The millions of kernels of corn, wheat and other grains harvested on a given day are placed into a particular silo so that | Read More »