By Jeff Minick “Language matters. Let’s start with some quotes from one of the masters of the English language: George Orwell. “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity …
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Dietary carbohydrate restriction as the first approach in diabetes management: Critical review and evidence base – ScienceDirect
“The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long term and conjectural rather than data driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss …
Watch “John Stossel – Influence of Milton Friedman” on YouTube
Milton Friedman’s core message was that personal freedom and economic freedom go hand in hand. Pursuing life, liberty & happiness must be accomplished by individuals, and can’t be granted to us by bureaucrats or gov’t programs. Milton Friedman understood this …
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Bernie Sanders Gets a Lesson in What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean – Reason.com
“…it’s telling to see how Sanders’ campaign responded to the allegation that the Vermont socialist is not putting his money where his mouth is. In a statement, Shakir stressed that Sanders’ campaign “offers wages and benefits competitive with other campaigns, …
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All Young Cannabis Users Face Psychosis Risk
RI-CLPMs use a multilevel approach to test for within-person differences that inform on the extent to which an individual’s increase in cannabis use precedes an increase in that individual’s psychosis symptoms, and vice versa. The approach provides the most rigorous …
Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education by Jason Brennan, Phillip Magness.
“This book is titled Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education. We think higher education suffers from serious moral flaws. From a business ethics standpoint, the average university makes Enron look pretty good. Universities’ problems are …
