Originally Posted by danielpalos Originally Posted by Neodoxy How would this allow them to pass the United States in terms of industrial output? We may not have beat them to the moon since central planning is what was required to get us to the moon.
Originally Posted by WhatNow!? Originally Posted by CyberCynic Nobody wants to return to slavery. At worst, we want social Darwinism to be allowed to run its course. Black people have been given ample opportunity to prove their worth and contributions to humanity. Because of the global communications network the whole world is able to observe the progress of societies - the United States remains the envy of the world, because of our robust economy. Black people are far more visible, than before, and it is very difficult to convince people that black people ...
Originally Posted by CyberCynic Originally Posted by Swensson It's not a problem as long as you keep track of your definitions. When two definitions could both be applicable, one has to specify which one is in use. Most of the time, this is done explicitly or by context. I called it normal faith in lack of a better word or rather, a better distinction. Trying to fix it will have this sort of problem. I think the standards proliferation problem is false - it is probably based on the antiquated theory that it is impossible to gather and correctly categorize the ...
Originally Posted by bill hill Fascinating actually! "Comparison of Arab and Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Arab/Islamic Nobel Prize Winners From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people) Literature 1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace 1978 - Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yasser Arafat * 2003 - Shirin Ebadi Chemistry 1999 - Ahmed Zewail ...
Originally Posted by CyberCynic In the recent past there have been some publications and demonstrations of discontent with the United States government. And no matter who is in power, corruption persists, not only in the government, but our society and schoolchildren, have come to expect that smart people only prove their smarts by knowing how to cheat "the system." It should not be that difficult for people who were taught that the United States was founded by unjust slave owners, to realize that a just ...
Originally Posted by Professor Peabody IRS issued billions in improper refunds, report says Posted by Josh Hicks on April 24, 2013 at 6:00 am The Internal Revenue Service issued more than $11 billion in improper payments through its Earned Income Tax Credit program last year, according to an inspector general’s report released this week. Treasury Department deputy inspector general Michael McKenney found that the IRS has failed to comply for two consecutive years with the Improper Payments ...
Originally Posted by TedintheShed In the original post, you may notice that I state "but its (libertarianism) coagulation was attributed by Rothbard to St. Thomas Aquinas." This infers that libertarianism has a strong foundation in some religious principles. The inference would not be accurate. While Aquinas stated ""that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act.", he still was a strong proponent in Aristotelian principals of philosophy ...
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