The Political Inquirer

I just finished reading the Newsweek article that was touted everywhere as something special: “The Post-American World“. It is a good article that really shows how capitalism has advanced in other countries while we in the United States have been holding ourselves back–now other countries are beginning to catch up. Not all, but many, and [...]

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The List Universe has a new list: the top ten myths about the Romans. We sometimes mention the Romans in our discussions on history at the Inquirer, so I thought this might be appropriate and interesting to some:
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7. ) Romans Spoke Latin
While it is true that the Romans did speak [...]

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More from the New York Times: a delegate calculator to see what each candidate needs to win.

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My prediction for the primaries is that the Indiana polling data is correct, Hillary will win there by a comfortable enough margin. It seems to be about 48.3% for Clinton and 42.5% for Obama, according to RealClearPolitics, I suspect the end result will be around a 5 point lead for Clinton.
North Carolina is where it [...]

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The New York Times is finally getting something dead on accurate: to save a species, serve it for dinner. It only makes sense when you think about it. Why is overfishing a problem? Because no one owns the fish–it is simply a “first come first serve” problem of the “commons”. Everyone wants as much as [...]

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We, as mortals with short life spans, would not even be concerned about the origins of life, except the evolutionists wish to use their [...]

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