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News of the Week: October 24-30, 2010

Recapping interesting things in the news and on the net in the past week.

The Bank of England is on the verge of a revolution where traditional fractional reserve banking may become banned. Read more from Robert Peston about how banking could be reinvented in England.

I’m a big fan of the Lifehacker blog, and in this article you can read about why we “hack” things.

Bonnie Kristian at the YAL blog shares a great vid of Jay Leno doing some jay-walking with election questions.

Government: the killer of small businesses.

I discovered this interesting bit in the Britannica.com blog about the origins of drug prohibition in the USA. Turns out that racism was part of it…

I love Netflix, here’s how the won the battle of movie rentals.

People who spend time in deep conversations on a regular basis are happier than those who don’t.

Join the Lew Rockwell Empire… or is it the Rockwell-Rebel Alliance?

Funny: All of Star Wars: A New Hope in one Facebook thread.

Okay fine, more science fiction silliness… Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is now a legal precedent.

Best comic of the week. (I’m loose in my definition of “comic”.)

Share your interesting news in the comments!

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Dr. Norman Horn

Norman is the founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Lipscomb University. He has been widely published in multiple fields and has written for the Washington Post, Relevant Magazine, Young American Revolution, the Journal of Research of NIST, and UV Solutions Magazine.
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