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(Policy of Truth) Vic Kaplan Comment
Just an FYI for any interested readers that Vic Kaplan, the Libertarian candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has a comment in an earlier post about the New Jersey gubernatorial campaign. I’d asked the Kaplan campaign to comment, so I’m grateful for the response. I will likely vote for Benvanides, but the marginalization of both…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Vic Kaplan. Thanks for responding. I’ll mention your comment on the main feed. I’m not a libertarian myself, but the blog does have libertarian readers. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Robert Massie at Princeton
“Divestment and the Boundaries of Conscience”As regular readers of this blog know, I’ve been involved since 2024 in the campaign to induce Princeton University to divest its holdings, not just from Israel, but from arms manufacture and military affairs as such. It was about a year ago that I got it into my head to…
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(QC RSS) Questionable Methodology
Glug glug glug
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(The GiveWell Blog) September 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(Policy of Truth) Navy Copter Down
Mikie Sherrill’s defenders are now doubling down on her Naval Academy issue. It isn’t enough for them to say that what she did was wrong, but a long time ago, which might be sufficient. They need to double down because they perceive, correctly, that something larger is at stake. They’re right, but not in the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Can’t I enjoy my glass of wine and [squints] potato undisturbed
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! Crock, 9/29/25 The point of this joke is of course that it’s annoying when a telemarketer (perhaps one…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Lose: The NJ Governors’ Debate by Vic Kaplan
Thank You for writing the article and analyzing the candidate responses. My positions differ from other candidates is that I don’t view the federal government as having jurisdiction over immigration under Article I, Section VIII of the US Constit…
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(Our World in Data) Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Albert Aghazarian, a Postscript by Roderick T. Long
The second most famous Dr. Kevorkian! LikeLike
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