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Having considered the Coase Thereom a bit more, I think I can phrase the principle being described better than even Coase did. I’ll call this the Vandivier-Coase Thereom: When transaction costs are sufficiently small relative to total surplus, an efficient and invariant outcome will prevail, and as transaction costs approach zero the result will become … Read more
This article will discuss a philosophy article I just crossed and note that it independently verifies an old idea of mine. Philosophy, the “unknown knowns”, and the public use of reason is the name of an article I recently encountered from an author by the name of Slavoj Žižek. The article was apparently published in 2006 but … Read more
The Kalam Cosmological Argument is a well known argument for God. There’s a big problem with it, however, in that the definition of God is highly disputed. This article takes the Kalam from a proof for God and turns it into a definition of God. The Kalam Cosmological Argument: 1) Everything which begins to exist … Read more
[John: Want proof that Obamacare is a train wreck? See the article below which talks about the Obamacare Call Center itself deciding not to offer healthcare, which was different from the original intention, due to a “comedy of errors.”] Source – National Review – 7/26/13 – Eliana Johnson In order to ensure … Read more
This article is the fifth in a series of 6 on an interview I conducted with Ted Shoebat on the Taliban peace talks. This link will take you to the Table of Contents and Condensed Interview. At 8:50 I bring the discussion away from the abstract discussion of Islam and get into the current news item of the … Read more
This article is the fourth in a series of 6 on an interview I conducted with Ted Shoebat on the Taliban peace talks. This link will take you to the Table of Contents and Condensed Interview. Just after the 3:10 mark Ted noted that jihadists, usually meaning militant Muslims, often see Americans as Christian crusaders and therefore enemies … Read more
This article is the third in a series of 6 on an interview I conducted with Ted Shoebat on the Taliban peace talks. This link will take you to the Table of Contents and Condensed Interview. In the video my first order of business was to sum up Ted’s credentials. As I say both in … Read more
Ted Shoebat on Taliban Peace Talks is a 6-piece article series. This article is the Table of Contents of the series and also contains the condensed interview video which is referenced throughout the article series. Article series: Video Trailer and Introduction to Article Series on Taliban Peace Talks with Ted Shoebat Table of Contents and … Read more
I recently conducted an exciting and insightful interview with Ted Shoebat on the upcoming Taliban-US peace talks. Ted is an author of multiple books and countless articles. Many of the articles are available at shoebat.com. He is an expert on Christian heresy and also a political pundit, with an emphasis on Islam. Find the interview trailer below: If that caught … Read more
This article was deemed far too lengthy and consequently broken down into an article series! See the trailer video and article series introduction here, or skip to the actual interview and the table of contents for the article series here! Thank you for your time and interest in this important discussion.