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  • Promoted to Primary Headline on 11/28/08: Florida Gay Adoption Ban Ruled 'Not Rational' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Florida Gay Adoption Ban Ruled \'Not Rational\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: On Tuesday, a Miami-Dade County judge granted adoption of two children to Martin Gill, a gay man who has fostered them for four years, along with his partner.

    Florida Gay Adoption Ban Ruled 'Not Rational' 2008

  • IBM also announced IBM Rational Power Appliance, a family of software appliances comprised of Power Express servers that are pre-loaded and pre-configured with IBM Rational® software for AIX development.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • IBM also announced IBM Rational Power Appliance, a family of software appliances comprised of Power Express servers that are pre-loaded and pre-configured with IBM Rational® software for AIX development.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • 'Due Confonnity to the Original and Ftmda - mental Law of the Rational Nature * The Great Law of Univerfal Benevolence towards all Rational*: To reftore them to their Pofts, and Interefts in the Great Society of. all Pure

    The Reasonableness of a Toleration: Enquir'd Into, Purely on Church ... 1705

  • And remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing and freedom from negligence; and that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of the things which are assigned to thee by the common nature; and that Magnanimity is the elevation of the intelligent part above the pleasurable or painful sensations of the flesh, and above that poor thing called fame, and death, and all such things.

    The Meditations 2004

  • And remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing and freedom from negligence; and that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of the things which are assigned to thee by the common nature; and that Magnanimity is the elevation of the intelligent part above the pleasurable or painful sensations of the flesh, and above that poor thing called fame, and death, and all such things.

    X 1909

  • And remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing, and freedom from negligence; and that

    Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

  • And remember that the term Rational was intended to signify a discriminating attention to every several thing, and freedom from negligence; and that

    Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

  • I take Rodrik to task for this in "Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure" (Public Choice 107 (3/4), June 2001, pp. 311-331):

    Rodrik and Economic Policy Reform, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Caplan discusses the difference between rational ignorance and irrationality in Rational Ignorance vs Rational Irrationality.

    MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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