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//A few days ago, Hillary Clinton decided that economists are wrong about the potential effect of a gas tax rebate. Her exact words: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists … We’ve got to get out of this mindset where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things […]

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//About a week ago, I wrote about how humanity seems to be disturbingly close to the mass die-off that Thomas Malthus predicted 200 years ago. In that last week, I’ve come across a huge amount of additional evidence suggesting that this theoretical catastrophe might soon become a reality:

Food riots have been taking place around […]

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//This is the second guest post by Kola. He will be a more regular writer in the future, so we won’t need to use the term “guest post” anymore for him.
What is this magical word that conjures up feelings of resentment in the American people? It didn’t sound connotatively negative until the media […]

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//Anybody who has seen futuristic movies such as Minority Report has wondered if - or, rather, when - we will actually start to see those personal identification systems. We always get ideas about a time when every person’s identity will be known by a global computer system, so that the authorities can know when […]

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//Everybody involved with American politics has been hearing a lot recently about Jeremiah Wright, the radical leftist pastor at Barack Obama’s church. What I ask is this… why is it that these sorts of statements are a major issue, but we don’t care about the fact that John McCain (among others) vies for the […]

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//This is the first post by Kola, our newest writer. Please join me in welcoming him to Globally Rational; hopefully, we will be seeing more great content in the future.
Hello class.
When it comes to the issue of international minimums on human rights, I usually take positions that mobs of good people would stone me […]

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//I recently read (in The Economist) about a study showing that over the course of the last 30 years, conservatives have consistently claimed to be “very happy” more often than liberals. Many people try to use this data to say that conservatism directly causes happiness… but before arriving at a conclusion like that, we […]

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