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What do the Jihadists Want?

I remember shortly after the 9-11 terrorist attacks three years ago a brilliant piece of PhotoShop art that made its way around the Internet showing the Statue of Liberty wrapped head-to-toe in a Taliban-style burka. It was both hilarious and sobering: sobering because it showed the stark contrast between two competing value-systems and hilarious because, [...]

Your Radical Notions for the Day

1. Any American companies that outsource jobs should be subject to a selective tariff for any goods or services they subsequently re-import. This idea is designed to provide disincentive for the companies to outsource in the first place. American companies that move their headquarters
outside the United States (to the Cayman Islands, for instance) in order [...]

A Long, Moral Tradition

more from Hezekiah Allen Taylor

I never have figured out just when “tradition” and “moral” became synonyms.

But, I figure it was about the same time “democracy” and “capitalism” became synonyms, “liberal” and “bias” became a collective noun-phrase, and “free speech zone” (the place they move protestors along Bush’s route) gained its irony—-so much so that [...]

Are You Better Off?

from Hezekiah Allen Taylor

When Reagan campaigned for president in 1980, his campaign slogan became a rallying cry. He asked every American one simple question: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”

Granted, he was talking about the term of Democratic rival Jimmy Carter and not a fellow Republican like George W., but [...]