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As His Anti-Detainment Amendment to the NDAA Loses in the House, Justin Amash Reminds the Floor That...

After a midnight debate on the House floor, the Smith-Amash anti-indefinite detainment amendment (sponsored by Reps...

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The Case for a Romney-Paul Ticket

Paul's presence would give the ticket something it has lacked up to this point: spine.

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We Had to Kill the Villagers to Save Americans From the Cocaine They Want

Lucio Baquedano, the mayor of Ahuas, Honduras, says a U.S.-assisted anti-drug operation there last week left four innocent people dead, including two pregnant women...

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The End of a Libertarian Era: Freedom Communications Selling Off in Chunks

As Warren Buffett expands his media holdings by buying 63 small newspapers this week (shouldnt he be giving that money to the government?), a much more liberty-oriented media empire is dismantling...

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Guess Which State Is Threatening to Keep President Obama Off the Ballot!

The secretary of state there is a bit of a birther.

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The TSA Can't Say Whether Full-Body Scanners Work, Because Its Failures Are Classified

You can thank Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and his fizzled underwear bomb for the big rollout of full-body airport scanners that began in 2010, shortly after the Nigerian terrorist tried to bring down a...

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How Reliable Are the Social Sciences?

The physical sciences produce detailed and precise predictions, but social sciences do not. Policy makers should take heed.

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At the Top of Ron Paul's Official Facebook Page...

My friend Brian Doherty has just released a new book about our Revolution...

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The Paradox of China’s Reform by Jamie F. Metzl

If Chinas national imperative today is reform, the greatest threat to that goal is the massive influence and institutionalized corruption of the countrys entrenched elites...

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Study: Want to Look Aggressive? Wear Black | Mind Matters | Big Think

Psychology is rich in findings that emerge from complex statistics done on the behavior of college students behaving for money or course credit...

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Phonehenge Architect Sentenced to Pay For Demolition, "See Dead People"

Kim Fahey, the retired phone company repairman who built a fantastic and whimsical fort known as "Phonehenge" out of old telephone poles in the middle of the Mojave Desert, has been sentenced to repay...

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A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Health by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries...

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JRF Poverty Monitor: An opportunity for the NI Executive to leave a more tangible legacy than the...

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (the guys who funded the research behind our community asset transfer ‘debate’) Monitoring report on poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland put together a great...

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David McWilliams » Punk Economics Lesson 4

Punk Economics is a new way looking at the economy based on the central idea that what is important is not complicated and what is complicated is never important. Lesson 4: Irish Referendum Preview...

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No Post Today » Bock The Robber

I have a headache. It came out of nowhere and it's driving me mad. No post today. Sorry. It would only be a grumpy rant...

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Are these the best places in Ireland?

The Irish Times is on the hunt for Ireland's nicest neck-of-the-woods and has invited members of the public to nominate their favourites. Here are three of the pitches so far

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One man and a little lady

My sister is going away for the weekend and Ive volunteered to babysit her sweet little two-year-old Lola what can go wrong? Well, apart from a toilet incident, the lost buggy, mental exhaustion . . ...

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The career that didn't go like clockwork

Anthony Burgess was a gifted and prodigious writer of more than 50 books, along with countless articles and criticisms but it was one slim, ultra-violent novella published 50 years ago that defined...

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Jackson set to trip the light fantastic again

SMALL PRINT:THERE WERE gasps when the rapper Tupac Shakur showed up onstage at the recent Coachella music festival in the US...

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Mary Lavin: an arrow still in flight

IN SOME of the most memorable moments of the 1992 RT film An Arrow in Flight: A Tribute to Mary Lavin, the twice-widowed Irish writer, who would have been 100 on June 10th, recounted her love story...

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The VVIP awards: How to create a celebrity monster

SMALL PRINT:MOST AWARDS CEREMONIES are self-congratulatory, sycophantic, boring affairs...

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Inspired by the Tories and a dog named Fred

He played again with Pulp recently, but Richard Hawleys solo work just keeps getting stronger. He credits long walks and anger

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Camera is a little too candid in New York sitcom

Lena Dunhams new sitcom may be true to life, for a narrow white American elite, but it is too close to the bone to make anything but unpleasant viewing, writes ROSEMARY Mac CABE

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Ag teacht slán as géarchéim an tinnis

BEOCHEIST:CAILLFIDH S sid na coise ar a laghad, agus bfhidir an chos eile leis.

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Why player pianos have a role to play

YOU MIGHT NOT ever have seen or heard one in the flesh, but youve probably seen a player piano in a movie...

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The highs and lows of piano competition

The Dublin International Piano Competition starts today, but what makes a great competition winner, and are the judges always right? Five experts share their views

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Strong on theory,weak on meaning

Two new exhibitions in Dublins Temple Bar complement each other, but despite some highlights in both, as is often the case with conceptual art, the interest generated is more theoretical than visual

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For DIY, take some Swords to the material

Mark Swordss latest exhibition is at once rough-hewn and painstakingly crafted, works of art that reflect the energy bound up in their own making, writes AIDAN DUNNE

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Sci-fi epics in an average Dublin office

IF YOU WERE told that two new Irish filmmakers had put together something called Lockout as their debut feature, you might well be expecting a worthy but dull drama about trade unions and Jim Larkin.

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The power of a bedside manner

IM GOING into hospital again this week, but Im not too depressed, because I always meet interesting people on the trolleys.

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Can you make a living on YouTube?

Becoming a YouTube partner means you can make money by posting videos, and some Irish people have managed to build themselves online careers

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