I don’t know, so I’m an atheist libertarian

Penn Jillette on CNN (click for the complete text)

“I don’t know” is not an apology. There’s no shame. It’s a simple statement of fact. When Richard Feynman didn’t know, he often worked harder than anyone else to find out,

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Le chapitre 11 de l’ALENA

Texte écrit dans le cadre du cours POL-1010 Introduction aux relations internationales de la Télé-Université (TÉLUQ) à l’automne 2007.

Les faits

« En janvier 1994, le Canada, les États-Unis et le Mexique ont lancé l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALENA) et formé …

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what if their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? This is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age, the one …

Draw Mohammed, Ban Facebook

How do you make a popular social networking site utterly useless for a whole country and its 45 millions users? Let a religous court find a lame excuse to do it!

A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the

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The real threat is not the one reported

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows

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The feeling of power

by Isaac Asimov

Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened …

The Unknown War

The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don’t we talk about it more?

The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its

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What It Feels Like To Be A Libertarian

By John Hasnas,

Political analysts frequently consider what it means to be a libertarian. In fact, in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled “What It Means to Be a Libertarian” that does an excellent job of presenting the

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The Paranoid Center

How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent by Jesse Walker on Reason.com

On June 10, 2009, an elderly man entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, raised a rifle, and opened fire, killing a

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AÉTÉLUQ – Rencontre du 15 mars

Suite à une demande du conseil d’administration de l’AÉTÉLUQ je me vois dans l’obligation de retirer mes billets à propos de l’association. Jusqu’à nouvel ordre, je ne pourrai plus blogguer à propos de mon expérience d’administrateur au sein de cette …