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Uncommon Knowledge interview with Thomas Sowell about his latest book, “Dismantling America.” Topics include: Decline and Fall, Marriage, Dismantling Self-Government and Foreign Policy.

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Web page performance is critical to keeping customers and visitors moving along on your site. Slow responses typically result in frustrated users, unhappy customers and worse, abandoned orders. It is important to reduce the number of requests generated by a web page in order to increase its actual and perceived performance.

One critical way is to reduce the number of external files loaded by a page. Another one is to reduce their size through compression. This post aims to take this concept a step further by automating this tedious process using open-source libraries.

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NY Times: Justices “Extend” Firearm Rights

The ruling returns constitutional rights to the people. It does not “extend” or “create” new ones. After all the 2nd amendment has existed since the constitution was ratified in 1789.

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Got to Love Wozniak

Steve Wozniak and David Flynn sit down with Neil Cavuto to talk about iPad sales, Fusion-IO, Apple’s business practices and Steve’s billions.

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The Banana Republic of the United States

David Asman talks about crony capitalists, like Warren Buffett, who are lobbying to have their businesses avoid new regulations being introduced by the politicians they helped elect.

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Cats Love the iPad

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The Suicide Bomber

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Hydrogen Barackside, Right on the Marx

Messianic Pharmaceuticals Hydrogen Barackside — For the general destruction of wealth.

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ExtJS ComboBox Hidden Field Issues

As you might already know, despite looking like a typical select box, Ext.form.ComboBox doesn’t behave exactly as you would expect since it submits the display text instead of the option value. The documentation states: A ComboBox works in a similar manner to a traditional HTML <select> field. The difference is that to submit the valueField, [...]

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Liberty Threatened

Bill Gates is the world’s richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want him to attend? Can he deny you the right to braid hair in your home for a living? It turns out that a local politician, who might deny us the right to earn a living and dictates which school our kid attends, has far greater power over our lives than any rich person.

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