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2oo6 (Inconvenient Truth)
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5, 2006 Missing Wenches
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2006 UAE and the Ports; Guantanamo
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2006 Scientific American and me
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Liberalism and Truth;
Technology and war;
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5, 2006 Danish Cartoons cause riots.
Education and Algebra
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(SOT pdf available) Saving the world in
spite of Pournelle's Iron Law
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(Bremer's Diary; The Education Disaster)
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Macaulay and Churchill, and Horatius at the Bridge
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