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The challenges of the 21st century

Ed Hudgins and William R Thomas vlog on the prominent challenges of the 21st century, including nationalism and religious fanaticism.

Oct 6, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
2 mins
Global Warming and Reckless Precaution

The soon-to-be released Fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will admit that computer predictions for

Sep 20, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
September 11 and the Need for Enlightenment

Twelve years after the attacks on America by Islamist mass murderers, mass murder proceeds apace in the Muslim Middle East. Unfortunately,

Sep 10, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Egypt Revolts Against Islamists and Obama

The military coup in Egypt is a blow to Islamist totalitarians and a slap at their facilitator, Barack Obama. After massive demonstrations

Jul 4, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Margaret Thatcher's Compassion

A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend

Apr 9, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
2 mins
Francis I: Pope of the Poor

Francis I, the newly installed Pope, has called on Catholics to protect all humanity, “especially the poorest, the weakest, the least import

Mar 21, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Hugo Chavez: Dead Demagogue

The world is thankfully rid of Hugo Chávez, the president and strongman demagogue of Venezuela. But it is not rid of the problems he...

Mar 8, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Rand Paul: Reagan Was No Isolationist

Just a few years ago, if someone would have told me that a member of Ron Paul’s family would have been invited to speak to an audience of

Feb 7, 2013
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3 Mins
Brits Escalate Global War on Producers

British Prime Minister David Cameron is urging the leaders of the major industrialized countries to engage in a concerted global war to...

Jan 8, 2013
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Romney and Cheating China

Mitt Romney is running several TV ads that call China a cheater when it comes to trade. But the GOP presidential candidate is cheating his

Oct 4, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
France Needs Victims

The war between expropriators and producers has taken a wholly expected turn in France. The recently-elected socialist government announced

Aug 9, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The War in Iraq: All Over But the Doubting

At the Baghdad International Airport today United States military forces lowered the American flag, and, in a ceremony with a long tradition

Dec 21, 2011
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
Stranger Than Fiction: Atlas Shrugged in Cuba

Summer 2010 issue -- A GOOD SIGN FOR THE FUTURE of liberty is that interest in the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand and her magnum opus...

Aug 1, 2011
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Michael C. Monson
6 Mins
Eastern Europe 20 Years Later

The December of 1989 marked the end of one of the most extraordinary six months of the century....

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Berlin Wall Then and Now

I first visited West Berlin in June 1981. I took the closed American military train through the 112-mile-long corridor through....

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Savage and Inhuman

March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Obama's War-is-Peace Prize

October 19, 2009 -- Ask the Norwegians who pick the Nobel Peace Prize recipient this question: “Which part of Europe are you from? The part

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Why Does the War on (Some) Drugs Continue?

March 26, 2009 -- The Drug War has been in the news again this week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed off to Mexico on Wednesday...

Jun 1, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
The Freedom Olympics

Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward—backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic.

Apr 10, 2011
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10 Mins
Ragnar Shrugged

Norway recently lost its wealthiest citizen. No, he didn't die. Rather, he left or, to be more accurate, was driven out of the country for..

Apr 5, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins

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