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Principled Perspectives: Global Warming Brings 'Record' U.S. Crop Yields
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There is only one power that determines the course of history . . . the power of ideas." — Ayn Rand. Monday, August 11, 2014. Global Warming Brings 'Record' U.S. Crop Yields. Of course, you’ll never see a headline like that (at least I haven’t.) As we know, global warming—aka climate change—is universally bad, even catastrophic. No good comes of it. Or so we’re told by the environmentalist Left. But, as the Associated Press reports,. Cool Summer Sets Expectations for a Record Harvest. If this report had ...
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Principled Perspectives: Privilege, Servitude, and the GOP Budget
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There is only one power that determines the course of history . . . the power of ideas." — Ayn Rand. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Privilege, Servitude, and the GOP Budget. For example, the New Jersey Star-Ledger titles their rebuttal. The GOP has spoken: The wealthy and powerful could use more help. The GOP-dominated House and Senate passed their. As usual, this will lead to the same ideological war that consumes our politics, but this budget also represents a war against cognitive function, because only in ...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: “They’ll Be Fine”—Two Takes on Indifference to Psychology
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Monday, September 29, 2014. 8220;They’ll Be Fine”—Two Takes on Indifference to Psychology. The chiding phrase “they’ll be fine” can be found abundantly on the Internet aimed, deservingly so, at the hysterically paranoid helicopter parents who hover endlessly over their children. In a different way, the phrase is also used dismissively when, say, a child must be away from the family. Consider the helicopter parents first. My derisive and acerbic emotional response to such totalitarian and tyrannical motiv...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Defending Hate Speech and Satire against the Criminal Mind
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Monday, January 12, 2015. Defending Hate Speech and Satire against the Criminal Mind. Because the criminal suffers a far greater deficiency of self-esteem than anyone else—“I am a nothing, a zero” was a frequent confession to. 8212;and because the criminal cannot tolerate the thought of being injured or maimed . . . A not uncommon fantasy is that of a grand flourish in which the criminal shoots everyone in sight and is then killed himself. (p. 260). Posted by Jerry Kirkpatrick. View my complete profile.
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Not PC: Music meme
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Promoting capitalist acts between consenting adults. What Would Party X Do? Tuesday, 26 September 2006. Here's a challenge from Paula. You might want to pick up. NAME UP TO THREE:. Song(s) That I Loathe to the Core of My Being. God Defend New Zealand (the world's worst anthem). Ten Guitars (the world's second-worst anthem). Staying Alive, Bee Gees. Musical artist(s) That I Loathe to the Core of My Being. Rolling Stones Song(s) I Like. Sympathy for the Devil. Beatles Song(s) I Love. And My Bird Can Sing.
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: The Whistleblowers: An Indictment of the Mixed Economy and Bureaucracy
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Monday, August 25, 2014. The Whistleblowers: An Indictment of the Mixed Economy and Bureaucracy. Socrates was an early whistleblower. He exposed many leaders of ancient Athens as hot-air know-it-alls and was executed for his efforts. Today, whistleblowers usually avoid execution, though the enemies. This is the reward they get for exposing the sleazy, dishonest practices of their superiors in the political-power-laden bureaucratic management. So they assume that the profit motive in capitalism is anathem...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: The PhD Cop
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Friday, December 12, 2014. The post below completes eight years of blogging once a month. Because I think I have a third book in me, I plan now to take a break from the regular 700-1100-word routine. Writing these posts has been fun and stimulating, but it also has become a distraction to thinking about a book. I probably will continue to write an occasional post, most likely shorter comments or follow-ups on previous remarks. Thank you for your patronage. As I have written before ( 1. On law enforcement...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Interest and the Core Curriculum
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Interest and the Core Curriculum. In discussions of curriculum over the past one hundred or so years, debate has ranged from letting children choose entirely what they want to study, guided only by their interests, to forced memorization of the encyclopedia, usually called the core curriculum. “Memorizing the encyclopedia” might be a harsh characterization, but some die-hard core-curriculum advocates would not object to it. Greeks called it enkyklios paideia. Or liberal arts&...
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