Without any notice or due process, I woke up one morning to find a second penis growing out of my navel. This quickly became a matter of grave concern to me. Oh, how much havoc a few extra inches of meat can wreak upon a man’s mind! Two hours later, I was in The Doctor’s […]
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As NATO is set to expand to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, many wise commentators are asking: why? The most obvious justification proffered by NATO enthusiasts is that these countries must be helped. One wonders then why the West, so eager to help, is not yet in a hurry to admit these countries to […]
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Recently I asked one of my friends: “How much is freedom of speech worth to you?” He wondered what I meant. “How much would they have to pay you to give it up?” After some haggling, he (a cash-starved law student like myself) conceded that a lump-sum payment of $50,000 would suffice for him to […]
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The Russian parliamentary elections of December 1995 have dealt a crushing blow to Yeltsin’s Government. Two die-hard opponents of economic reform, Communists led by Zyuganov and an extreme nationalist party of Zhirinovsky, have emerged as the top vote-getters with 22% and 11 % of the popular vote, respectively. The weak showing of reformist parties – […]
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