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The Right has a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde complex about artificial human cloning. Mild-mannered social conservatives fall over one another in disgust at the prospect while Libertarians seemingly stand behind a lab bench, cackling with glee at every new advance in cloning technology. In a National Review Online column published earlier this year, author [...]

We always knew something was wrong, those of who had to endure liberal baby boomers preaching at us from the padded pulpits of tenured professorships. Xers like myself knew instinctively that the wide-eyed idealism of the sixties was more likely inspired by a drug haze than a realistic view of the world. We realized that [...]

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DC Dog Owners on a Tight Leash 17 May 2012, 9:05 pm

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform… -Alexis de Tocqueville, from “Democracy in America.” Getting a [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Amanda Carey

Occupational licensing keeps out the competition 16 May 2012, 2:08 pm

In the Institute for Justice’s 20-plus years, we have challenged all manner of senseless occupational licensing schemes—from those restricting entry into fields like interior design to tax preparation as well as eyebrow threading and African hairbraiding—all the while showing how they keep ordinary Americans out of work at the behest of more politically powerful competitors. [...]

Source: AFF Doublethink Online AFF Doublethink Online | Dick Carpenter and Lisa Knepper