Were she paid for the act, yes. That's not the case. She instead "needs" 3 condoms a day (what the $3000 comes out to) for her entire time in school. Consider it a personal exercising program. Methinks it would be easier (and safer for her) to be on a bike than to be the town bike.

A good article. The short form would read: "Why do I rob banks? Because that's where the money is."

Just once I'd like to see the EPA and other groups try to estimate the number of deaths that increases in power costs will bring about. Don't worry about the details about how the costs increase by 10%, 25%, 50%, and 100% for electricity, natural gas, gasoline, propane, and heating oil; just tell us how many people the higher costs would kill. Don't forget to factor in the increased costs of providing fresh produce to places covered in snow. The EPA should stop looking at individual trees, but God help us if they insist on "managing" the forest.

It can also be an advance form of vetting. If a candidate makes it through the primary season then there should be little chance of an October surprise. It can also be a means of spreading facts that will not be covered by "friendly" media outlets who, in their impartiality, want their guy to win so won't cover anything that could hurt them. In this case, the opposing candidate's supporters would play the part of the media, reporting the aspects of the story that wouldn't otherwise see the light of day.

There are different levels of greed, just as there are different levels of self-worth. Dr. Williams is talking about being confident enough in yourself to go out and achieve, and you respond by saying narcissism is a bad thing. Too much of anything is bad, but greed (to the level of "I want more for myself and my family") is the basis of the competitive marketplace. If you want to sell more, sell cheaper. Toyota didn't get to its current size by giving away products but by selling products that people wanted at prices Toyota's competitors couldn't beat (for the same level of quality).

To paraphrase my favorite Canadian blog: when the Nazi's show up to protest the Communists you don't pick sides, you pray for an asteroid.

Because boys and girls are not the same, and society needs to hold some rules higher than "he who is strongest rules all".

2 things: it's Oil sands, not Tar sands (different lengths of molecules in oil than in tar, the bitumen produced is medium to short chain hydrocarbons); the net CO2 production will increase if Keystone XL is stopped because more tanker traffic will need to ply the ocean to deliver crude to the refineries (tankers that would normally go to China from the middle east will now make the trip to the US while tankers will be needed to haul from the coast of British Columbia, Canada over to China where it would otherwise have flowed through a pipeline).

IMHO the difference between liberals and conservatives is the relative rankings of theory and experience. This explains why people tend to become more conservative over time, as they experience more and have more direct experience to draw upon. These gentlemen appear to be theoreticians who cannot show a practical knowledge of the greater field in which they work. If a cattle rancher talked genetics but never put the bull in with the cows or had anyone don the whole-arm-gloves, it doesn't matter what he knows about genes because the business will fail and, in the real world, he wouldn't be able to get another job in the field. There areeconomic problems now, and these gentlemen react like deer in the headlights to real world questions.

Just what I was thinking, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are unlikely to be dancers the way these fellows were. I was also hoping for a question along the lines of "do have any practical advice, or can you discuss where your ideas have been tried in the past, and what happened?"