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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 28: Evaluating and Funding a New Kind of Grant (Clubfoot Treatment)
Clubfoot, a congenital condition where children are born with one or both feet twisted inward, affects roughly one in 800 newborns globally. Most of those cases are in low- and middle-income countries, where only about 20% of children with clubfoot receive treatment. While most donations to GiveWell are directed to programs that reduce child mortality,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “But once you start looking at real-world cases where politics influences prices” Again, the fact that political action distorts the informational benefits of the price system isn’t an objection to the theo…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on JROTC Out of West Orange by Roderick T. Long
Naming the program after Kitty Hawk seems like a needless insult to the Wright Brothers. Over the course of their career they completed about 1000 non-powered flights, and several hundred powered flights. Number of people bombed or shot during their f…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Maybe he’s there on a court order
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dennis the Menace, 4/16/26 OK, since I complained about yesterday’s “exciting” tax panel from Pluggers, I have to…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – If there is a buildup
New comic!Today’s News: You can still late pledge in our 2026 Kickstarter. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2wjw2bw6You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix. It’ll update Monday to Friday! :)Subscribe to the Spice Rack newsletter h…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Police Tailgating as Entrapment: A Comment and Query by THOMAS WILLI
i work 2nd shift in nj and get out of work around 1 am ..i just had a nj state trooper tail gate me about 6 miles.. with no other traffic on the road at that time ..my only thoughts were he was trying to make me speed ..but i did not speed.. if a…
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(QC RSS) Friends To Rivals
Two coffee makers AND a trap door
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on We’re Going to Need a Bigger Anti-War Movement by JROTC Out of West Orange | Policy of Truth
[…] argued at PoT that the anti-war movement needs to get people out onto the streets. But if you’re averse to marching and chanting in the streets, feel free to join the anti-war […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) JROTC Out of West Orange
I’ve mentioned a few times that I split my time between Princeton and West Orange, New Jersey, which is why some of my activism focuses on the one place, and some on the other. West Orange High School has a JROTC Air Force program which it never tires of advertising. The High School recently advertised…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I can grant much of what you’re saying but still see a problem for the Hayekian thesis. One problem is that there is an unresolved ambiguity there. On the one hand, Hayek wants to say that pricing is a “discove…
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