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There are many of parents who are good at running activity programs for youth but there aren’t many parents who are good at running a youth leadership training program. The article…

As a scoutmaster you have probably noticed the problems go much deeper: 1) The BSA national organization sized itself in the 1970s based on the idea that membership would continue …

Bots use sites like this to validate lists of stolen cards with low dollar donations to validate the cards before using them on the target site. Without some one of protection site…

Maybe if moral virtues can be purchased they were never moral virtues to begin with? Many moral vices naturally decline with age as physical senses and hormones dull and life loses…

People have different preferences, some people are going to be more productive at home and some less. Some people simply can’t work from home. I think the challenge is that leaders…

If all the drug cartels in the world were limited to pawning copper scrap it would make me very happy indeed. I am also sure that it would benefit a large number of people who live…

I wouldn’t want to live in a world where the equivalent of the life’s work of its average citizen are traded causally like chips on a poker table and the only option to opt-out is …

All of the other items you mentioned are things that society attempts to regulate against as well. And while there are an infinite number of ways to exchange value it stays between…

Money is a call option on the labor of its citizens. When money accumulates to people who operate against the best interests of its citizens more and more of a countries labor and …

There have been proposals to inject sulfur into airline engines at high altitudes so this approach has been well studied. The first challenge is that even if it addresses the probl…

I’m not arguing for or against the merits of the recent strikes. I am disputing the notion that Iran’s anti-US stance is purely rhetoric for domestic consumption. One of the argume…

Iran sponsored insurgents in Iraq and provided the training and means to build explosively formed penetrators that killed 196 US troops: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec…

North Korea had enough conventional artillery to level Seoul with an estimated 1M casualties. That was why Clinton decided against attacking North Korea as they moved towards build…

This paper from 1999 provides some context about the US and Israel relationship in the context of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The third temple's holy of holies : Israel's n…

Housing prices have historically been highly correlated with income and interest rates. That correlation seems to have broken down. There are areas where it still is sane but much …

Housing prices relative to income have gone up pretty much nationwide: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-re...

Much of the US housing stock includes homes built before 1990 (30 years ago). If most of the median home price increase was due to build quality there would be a bimodal distributi…

Spanish scholars have speculated that Columbus was a crypto-Jew. The DNA analysis could have potentially ruled out that theory. https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columb…

Business expenses must be ordinary and necessary to be deductible. A roofer would have a hard time justifying deducting a boat under the rule but a commercial fisherman wouldn’t ha…

Others have tried and the IRS has even provided a helpful guide on if your endeavor is a hobby or a business ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-23.pdf ).

Monsanto engineered several crops to create their own insecticides with genes from bacillus thuringiensis (BT). BT corn was approved by regulators for corn not intended for human c…