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Tuesday
June 30, 2009
Commentary
On Passing Judgment: Politics versus Etiquette
by Ted Keer
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From Ayn Rand's break with the Brandens to the current fiasco over James Valliant's banning at Wikipedia, Objectivists have taken sides and demanded that sides be taken. Is this the best policy in all cases? (Read more...)
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Sightings:
Ayn Rand & Economic Collapse
Posted by Ted Keer on 7/02, 5:41pm
A WBUR Boston radio interview with Jennifer Burns, professor of history at University of Virginia, and author of the upcoming “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.” Here is a direct link in case it the main one is altered.(Read more...)
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Quote:

Know what the hell is going on and what you are doing - that should be a big goal for Objectivists in general anyway.
Kurt Eichert
Hope versus Reality

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(Added by Ted Keer on 7/02, 5:25pm)
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News/Link:
Obama scripts town-hall meeting on health care. What would Bush say?
Posted by Ed Thompson on 7/02, 10:11am
To see the danger, play the first minute of the video provided along with the linked article  ... (Read more...)
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Information Flow and Democracy
Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 7/01, 1:51pm
I add this note to News because it is about news media in a democracy. The Social Epistemology of Blogging Alvin I. Goldman In this paper, Professor Goldman focuses on a “factor important to democracy, a factor that is emphasized by so-called epistemic approaches to democracy. According to epistemic d...(Read more...)
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And any scum-sucking scoundrel who points out that "doing nothing" already includes spending billions on renewable energies and living under thousands of regulations is, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman shrewdly noted, a traitor to humankind.
David Harsanyi
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/01/lets_do_something_--_anything_97252.html

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President Obama Aligns with Marxist Dictators on Honduras
Posted by Ed Thompson on 6/30, 7:22pm
Caveat: I haven't personally verified this yet ...(Read more...)
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Joke:

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The joke is on us.
The joke is on us.

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(Added by Ted Keer on 6/30, 1:56pm)

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My...Hero?
Posted by Ted Keer on 6/30, 7:16am
Obama Pleads With Gays, Vows to Be 'Champion' President tells gay leaders at White House: "I will not only be your friend, I will continue to be an ally and a champion and a president who fights with you and for you." (Read more...)
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Videos:

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Obama supports a wannabe dictator, but not the rule of law
Obama supports a wannabe dictator, but not the rule of law

Krauthammer et al from Fox News commenting on Obama's foreign policy position of supporting leftist dictator wannabes. (See the video)

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White firefighters win Supreme Court appeal
Posted by Joseph Rowlands on 6/29, 2:13pm
"Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer's reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions." (Read more...)
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Book:
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The Promise of Liberty, A Non-Utopian Vision (Lexington Books, 2009)
The Promise of Liberty, A Non-Utopian Vision (Lexington Books, 2009) by Tibor R. Machan

This is my latest a work with the focus on the non-Utopian nature of the free society.

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Article:

Saturday
June 27, 2009
Commentary
Hope versus Reality
by Tibor R. Machan
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One main reason that bureaucracies are generally sluggish and unenthusiastic
about serving the public--as distinct from private vendors--is this
element of constant competition, combined with the fact that bureaucrats
gain their income from taxes which can often be raised with impunity by
those who hire them. (Read more...)

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Ayn Rand on Donahue 1979 - the full hour-long show
Posted by Ted Keer on 6/26, 6:34pm
The full one-hour show is now available at YouTube. (Read more...)
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Farrah's Brainy Side
Posted by Bob Palin on 6/26, 6:07pm
"A recent email exchange with the late Farrah Fawcett reveals the unlikely friendship between the Charlie's Angels star and the novelist Ayn Rand, who helped the actress understand her place in culture—and longed to cast her in a TV version of Atlas Shrugged." (Read more...)
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Obama, the African Colonial
Posted by Ted Keer on 6/26, 1:00pm
L. E. Ikenga identifies Obama's true mindset: "Had Americans [paid more attention to his cultural identity than his skin color], maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies [with his Marxist] father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa...(Read more...)
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Joke:

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How Do You Keep a Fool in Suspense?
How Do You Keep a Fool in Suspense?

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Messages out of the last 50

General Forum
Is Taxation an Initiation of Force?
(82) Jordan - 7/02, 12:10pm - Hi Phil, You won't get much argument from me per the ...
(83) Jordan - 7/02, 1:09pm - In other news. Phil, you compelled me to go back and review ...
(84) robert malcom - 7/02, 2:25pm - http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9969...
Was Ayn Rand an acquaintence/lover of Philip Rothschild?
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (9) Jordan Zimmerman - 7/01, 11:05pm - A F - I owe you an apology. I read your post again and I tot...
Article Discussions
Hope versus Reality
(10) Jay Abbott - 7/01, 8:35pm - So... you are saying that given the opportunity... industry ...
(11) Steve Wolfer - 7/01, 9:11pm - Jay, You said, "If such practices ['good' regulations...
(12) Jay Abbott - 7/02, 6:49am - Steve, I simply think that the best we can achieve, s...
(13) Jay Abbott - 7/02, 7:34am - Steve, I did want to comment on the analogy that real...
(14) Steve Wolfer - 7/02, 3:56pm - Jay, You said, "[I] hope I haven't irritated you on t...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (15) Kurt Eichert - 7/02, 5:03pm - Phil, I really can't say I agree with you and your argument ...
On Passing Judgment: Politics versus Etiquette
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (6) William Dwyer - 7/01, 9:01pm - Ted, you wrote, Suppose one person is guilty of murder, and ...
(7) Ted Keer - 7/01, 9:57pm - Not at all, Bill. I make a distinction which Objectivism do...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (8) William Dwyer - 7/02, 10:44am - Not at all, Bill. I make a distinction which Objectivism doe...
(9) Ted Keer - 7/02, 12:36pm - Do let me make clear that by etiquette I don't just mean con...
(10) Jordan - 7/02, 2:35pm - I think Ted's 3 ethics categories is fine, except I ...
(11) Ted Keer - 7/02, 2:57pm - Jordan, matters like love and religious vows per se are not ...
(12) Jordan - 7/02, 3:23pm - Hi Ted, Ok. If they consented, then there was no frau...
(13) Ted Keer - 7/02, 5:21pm - Thanks, Jordan. I need to repeat that I am not taking...
News Discussions
Information Flow and Democracy
(3) Fred Bartlett - 7/02, 8:36am - Nothing has contributed more to the concept of 'the egalitar...
(4) Ted Keer - 7/02, 8:47am - Well, isn't one of the worst problems of the internet that p...
Obama scripts town-hall meeting on health care. What would B...
(0) Ed Thompson - 7/02, 10:14am - This could be titled "Information Flow and Democracy -- Part...
Quotes
Know what the hell is going on and what you are doing - that...
(0) Ted Keer - 7/02, 5:27pm - In other words, "Most people--Objectivists--do not understan...
Dissent
Who is John Galt?
(11) Jay Abbott - 7/01, 8:58pm - I don't know that Rand based Galt per se on Tesla, but certa...
(12) Joe Maurone - 7/01, 9:05pm - Hey now, I didn't say Galt was hearing signals from outer s...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (13) Ted Keer - 7/01, 9:08pm - That's not very helpful, Jay. The specifics Joe mentions ar...
(14) robert malcom - 7/01, 9:24pm - Am in a way surprise this comes up - he was the first person...
(15) Joe Maurone - 7/01, 9:29pm - Thanks for the pic, Ted. I saw it in a book the other day, ...
(16) Ted Keer - 7/01, 10:00pm - Tesla died in NYC in 1943. He would have been very much "in...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (17) Jay Abbott - 7/02, 5:56am - Ted, You make a good point. I stand corrected in this...
(18) robert malcom - 7/02, 6:21am - http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/index.html
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (19) Bridget Armozel - 7/02, 10:41am - Lets not forget the novel the Driver, in which there was a s...
(20) Ted Keer - 7/02, 12:46pm - Wonderful find, Brede. Here is the page on the author...
(21) Joe Maurone - 7/02, 1:05pm - There was an article in Liberty magazine about this somewhat...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (22) Peter Reidy - 7/02, 2:24pm - This thread is going way beyond the evidence. Garret'...
(23) robert malcom - 7/02, 2:28pm - Edison's feud with Tesla had to do with direct current vs. a...
(24) Peter Reidy - 7/02, 2:31pm - Thanks for the info.  Presumably you mean Tesla was promotin...
(25) Ted Keer - 7/02, 3:12pm - Well Tesla was a Serb, and I don't see what that has to do w...
(26) Peter Reidy - 7/02, 4:07pm - If no one is making these claims any more, then I feel flatt...
(27) Ted Keer - 7/02, 4:49pm - Come on, Peter. You said: "Tesla liked three-way divisions....
Jokes
The joke is on us.
(3) Luke Morris - 7/02, 6:59am - I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
(4) Ted Keer - 7/02, 7:44am - Easy, just vomit.
Videos
Obama supports a wannabe dictator, but not the rule of law
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (8) Ted Keer - 7/01, 10:21pm - "Nothing So Shocking About This Coup" Glenn Garvin, Miami He...
3 Sanctions3 Sanctions3 Sanctions (9) Steve Wolfer - 7/02, 1:44am - I suspect that the Army officers of Honduras swear an oath t...
(10) robert malcom - 7/02, 3:40am - Now THAT would make for a good book...


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Monday
April 22, 2002
CommentaryThe Free Radical
Violence, Virtue and Vice
by Larry Sechrest
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In and of itself, violence is, and can only be, morally neutral. What imbues violent acts with the glory of morality or the taint of immorality is the motive of the acting person in the given situation. (Read more...)
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