Burton Kent

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all
ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the [...]

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Our government keeps getting bigger, more oppressive and costly. The late Harry Browne said it best on when he ran as the Libertarian Party nominee in 2000…
RUSSERT (addressing the wasted vote question): “Mr. Browne, would it make a difference to a libertarian if either George Bush or Al Gore was president?”
BROWNE: “No. You know, [...]

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When I was 16 I read an article in the Chicago Tribune about a poker club in Oakbrook.  This was before the riverboats and all the gambling - at the time, the only place to play poker was in Vegas.  For some reason, I wanted to check it out.  So I drove out to the [...]

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Once you’ve got all the basics, I recommend getting NY Salsa intermediate video with Juan Calderon. More than half the stuff I do can be found on that video. You can also go to YouTube - I recommend videos by Addicted2Salsa (Anthony Persaud), also available on his website. The guy puts together [...]

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I used to be in a small performing group, and did a solo with a girl. She drove me nuts because her face kept looking EXACTLY I was stepping on her toes. Whenever she wasn’t sure of what to do next, “oooh”. It was so frigging distracting!
Then I tried something and the [...]

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I used to think the government should be like Robin Hood. Take from the rich to give to the poor.
But now I think differently. What have the “rich” ever done to the “poor”? They’re already taxed proportionately to their income. Redistributing wealth is pretty much extortion by the government.
However, there is [...]

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Just saw the film Peaceful Warrior based on the book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
Wow.
What I’ve noticed is that every spiritual tradition (not every religious tradition) talks about living in the now.  Being fully present.  Do what you are doing.  Practice perfectly.  Pay attention.
Most of the time we’re planning for the future or living in [...]

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I don’t really read the newspaper, and since my TV is only hooked up for movies, I’m pretty out of touch with the news. I like it that way - I’ve been slightly ignorant since before Bush invaded Iraq. Knowing what our government is doing just pisses me off.
And here we go again. I noticed [...]

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I was just reading Ron Paul’s weekly articles archive over at http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_tst.htm I couldn’t find a single thing to disagree with. What really hit me was this:
“…by digging our economy into a deeper hole, they would create a lot more demand for the social programs they propose.
Tax and spend [...]

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James Brausch is having an open question time for search engine rankings. As far as I can tell, most SEO “experts” use SWAGs (Scientific Wild-Assed Guesses). James actually used his background in reverse-engineering to discover how search engines really determine ranking.
My question is, have you found any evidence that sites that link to [...]

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