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Asides

  • December 30, 2009
    Here are some interesting numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in October of 1999 there were 109,487,000 non-farm,…
  • December 30, 2009
    An article from last August's New Yorker which details the difficulty of maintaining teacher accountability in the New York Public…
  • December 29, 2009
    Devon, PA.  In the early pages of Jacques Maritain's Art and Scholasticism, he provides a philosophy of art that restores…
  • December 28, 2009
    Karl Polyani noted that “Laissez-faire was planned; planning was not.” Planning was always an ad hoc response to the failures…
  • December 23, 2009
    An editorial in Politiken, Denmark's largest newspaper, states that Obama is greater then Jesus. And if you are perplexed by…
  • December 16, 2009
    BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY---Merry Christmas to all friends (and enemies, too) of Front Porch Republic! Don't you worry 'bout that quaffer-scoffer…
  • December 14, 2009
    "Jaywalking" is a hilarious and terrifying sketch in which Jay Leno "tests" fellow Americans on their basic knowledge of history,…
  • December 13, 2009
    Well, at least this is the suggestion of the perceptive Jason V. Joseph at "Musings in the Public Square," who…
  • December 9, 2009
    Since Caleb wants to argue about it, I will comply. This is a post that I wrote back in November;…
  • December 8, 2009
    Some thinkers on the Left have sniffed the smelling salts and are emerging from their love-fest to notice that the…
  • December 8, 2009
    I have long thought there was no more corrupt person in college football than Jim Tressel, but I am conceding…
  • December 8, 2009
    The Prince of Peace---rather a seditious title in our age of Homeland Security and endless war, eh? "Love thy neighbor" and…