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Friday
March 19, 2010
War for Men's Minds
The Parable of the Octopus Man
by Richard Gleaves
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It wasn't anything serious, just a head cold-- a minor bit of sniffles. Every reputable doctor he visited told him to go home and drink fluids and sleep and he'd feel better within a few days. But, because Quincy was a hypochondriac, he continued searching until he found someone who told him what he wanted to hear. (Read more...)
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There are no rules; we make them as we go along
There are no rules; we make them as we go along

Key House Democrat, Rep. Alcee Hastings, for the House Rules Committee on the Reconciliation Bill: "When the deal goes down, all of this talk about rules -- we make 'em up as we go along." To paraphrase an old and venerable maxim, Power corrupts, and arbitrary power corrupts arbitrarily. (See the video)

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Deem is Dead
Posted by Teresa Summerlee Isanhart on 3/20, 12:10pm
Dems claim they have the votes to pass HCR bill.(Read more...)
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Health Care “Deeming” as Political Adultery
Posted by Ed Hudgins on 3/19, 2:09pm
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Peggy Noonan on "Demon Pass"
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/19, 9:53am
I'm speaking of [Obama} on FNC's "Special Report With Bret Baier." Fox is owned by News Corp., which also owns this paper, so one should probably take pains to demonstrate that one is attempting to speak with disinterest and impartiality, in pursuit of which let me note that Glenn Beck has long appeared to be insane.(Read more...)
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The entire CSPAN library since its 1987 inception is now web archived and available for streaming
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/19, 9:32am
The Archives records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Every program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems. (Read more...)
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Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 3/19, 3:42am
When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s response was different. “Go on then — kill me,” he said.(Read more...)
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Howard Stern discovers the FCC is run by Communists
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/18, 8:40pm
"Ill' never vote for a Democrat again, I don't give a f^ck who they are." "The fact that these democrats are the FCC are communists - they're for communism. They don't want to see companies -- this is gangsterism." (Read more...)
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Coburn warns Democrats that the Republicans may actually go so far as to enforce the law
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/18, 7:58pm
"If...you lose your election, and you think (your nomination) to a federal position isn't going to be held in the Senate, I've got news for you... "We will look at every appropriations bill at every level, at every instance, and we will outline by district, and we will associate that with the buying of your vote...(Read more...)
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Nancy Pelosi wants the House to say the Senate bill is 'deemed passed,' so they can pass the bill without voting on it. Can the American people then say that Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and Reid are 'deemed impeached'?
Ron Chandler
from TIA Daily quoted in Pamela Gellar's Atlas Shrugs blog

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The Shrugging Begins: Regional Walgreens says 'No New Medicaid Customers'
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/17, 9:18pm
Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across Washington state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement. (Read more...)
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Idaho to Sue Feds Over Health Care Mandate
Posted by Ted Keer on 3/17, 9:12pm
Gov. Otter becomes the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance — and similar legislation is now pending in 37 other states.(Read more...)
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Do for-profit universities spell the end of public education?
Posted by Luke Setzer on 3/16, 10:32am
This old news still bears relevance today. I have seen DeVry University get mixed reviews. Nevertheless, it tickles me that their invasion of Canada raised the hackles of the public university establishment. These passages tell quite a bit: "The DeVry thing comes on the coattails of a 20-year trajectory," say...(Read more...)
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There is a perfect likeness between Christian and anarchist: their object, their instinct, points only toward destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche and the Nazis

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Cash for Crackhouses
Cash for Crackhouses

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Hudgins Interviewed on "Going Galt" on PJTV!
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Sunday
March 14, 2010
Commentary
The Anatomy of Coercion
by William Scott Dwyer
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In this article, I reply to arguments by John Hospers in which he questions the clarity and legitimacy of the non-initiation-of-force principle. I defend the principle and explain what is wrong with his philosophical objections to it. (Read more...)
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Objectivism Q&A
Word as capstone of concept
(34) Doug Fischer - 3/19, 7:26pm - Ted, You belittle all when your comment is presumably...
(35) Ted Keer - 3/19, 10:53pm - Asking you to provide an example of what you are talking abo...
(36) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 12:16am - Ted, Looking over my own posts, I realized your chall...
(37) Ed Thompson - 3/20, 8:57am - Bill, You've conveniently sidestepped my argument. I ...
(38) Ed Thompson - 3/20, 9:09am - Steve, We agree that a criminal who initiated violenc...
(39) Steve Wolfer - 3/20, 9:39am - Ed, You've done a good job of showing that you unders...
(40) Ted Keer - 3/20, 10:01am - Doug, rather than complain that I didn't use the exact same ...
(41) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 11:59am - 1) Because it is unnecessary.  I've already reached the unde...
(42) Ted Keer - 3/20, 12:52pm - Let me see if I understand what you just said. You ...
(43) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 5:11pm - You failed to understand me on multiple levels.  A hint, Ted...
(44) Ed Thompson - 3/20, 6:46pm - Steve, Our issues are still not joined. You said: ...
(45) Steve Wolfer - 3/20, 7:15pm - Ed, You said, "...a just punishment doesn't violate r...
(46) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 7:32pm - Ed, First, thanks for your answer way back from post ...
(47) Ted Keer - 3/20, 8:24pm - You have failed to make yourself clear on any level, Doug. ...
how would Objectivism address the following scenario?
(0) Kate Gladstone - 3/20, 4:59am - How would Objectivism object the following scenario? (which ...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (1) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 3/20, 7:13am - First, it's hard to imagine what kind of monstrous cultural ...
(2) Kate Gladstone - 3/20, 9:56am - Thanks, Teresa. As it happens, I have seen and heard peop...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (3) Ted Keer - 3/20, 10:10am - Yes, and children have even been conceived in rape. But who...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (4) robert malcom - 3/20, 10:12am - In general, that was the way of it, this 'duty' of it, thru ...
(5) Kate Gladstone - 3/20, 11:21am - Re: If by existence you mean only that the chain of c...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (6) Ted Keer - 3/20, 1:12pm - To call having a child out of a sense of duty "conscious pre...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (7) Steve Wolfer - 3/20, 4:59pm - Kate said, "if my very existence was and is against [my pare...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (8) William Dwyer - 3/20, 5:15pm - Some good replies to Kate, to which I'll add the following: ...
Article Discussions
The Anatomy of Coercion
(39) Steve Wolfer - 3/19, 4:27pm - Ted, You asked, "Does the fact that it is constitutio...
(40) Ted Keer - 3/19, 6:42pm - Best price can still be at a loss.  I don't support that.  I...
(41) robert malcom - 3/19, 7:01pm - Define loss - seems you are having your subjective valui...
(42) Ted Keer - 3/19, 7:26pm - You are right to ask the question, Robert. Obviously there'...
(43) Steve Wolfer - 3/19, 9:32pm - The government owns more land in some states than the total ...
(44) William Dwyer - 3/19, 11:13pm - Ted wrote, As for the public ownership of land, the only way...
(45) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 12:16am - A custodian is an employee, of an owner. A government...
(46) William Dwyer - 3/20, 8:40am - Doug, A property owner can deny others the right to a...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (47) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 6:43pm - Thanks for the response, Bill.  It seems there is no way to ...
(48) William Dwyer - 3/20, 7:29pm - Doug, Thanks for compliments on my article. You wrot...
(49) Doug Fischer - 3/20, 7:55pm - Ok.  I think I'm ready to agree with you if this can solve o...
(50) William Dwyer - 3/20, 11:12pm - Doug, you asked, If I fly a ship of my own to Mars, is it pr...
The Parable of the Octopus Man
(0) Ed Thompson - 3/20, 8:38am - Beautifully done, Richard! Ed
(1) robert malcom - 3/20, 10:20am - Good thing those were kept elsewhere...;-)
News Discussions
Do for-profit universities spell the end of public education...
(0) Michael E. Marotta - 3/20, 11:33pm - The main link did not work and when I tried Google on key wo...
(1) Michael E. Marotta - 3/21, 12:48am - Just as the plural of "anecdote" is not "data" allow me to a...
Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (1) Jeff Landauer - 3/19, 4:08pm - I wonder if the guru will claim victory if the Skeptic dies ...
(2) Phil Osborn - 3/20, 12:34pm - As in, "If you touch me, you will die." Or, "If  'B,'...
(3) William Dwyer - 3/20, 5:30pm - Oh, my God! Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?...
Peggy Noonan on "Demon Pass"
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (3) William Dwyer - 3/20, 12:14am - Bret Baier: So you'll go deem-and-pass and you don't know ex...
(4) robert malcom - 3/20, 4:58am - It's the ol' "pea in the shell" routine...
2 Sanctions2 Sanctions (5) Ted Keer - 3/20, 9:23am - Bill, that's like asking whether a murder-suicide who is dri...
Quotes
There is a perfect likeness between Christian and anarchist:...
(1) Scott Gwynn - 3/20, 1:07pm - I very much enjoyed the film and Hick's perspective. I didn...
(2) Ted Keer - 3/20, 1:31pm - Gimmick is too strong a word. Pretext also has a bad connot...
Videos
There are no rules; we make them as we go along
(0) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 3/20, 7:54pm - Amazing.  I spent a deal of the day watching this process on...
(1) William Dwyer - 3/20, 11:25pm - i hear ya, Teresa! If this thing passes, and it may very we...
Blogs
Thanks, But I Plan to Stay Poor for Now
(8) Teresa Summerlee Isanhart - 3/20, 8:44pm - The woman who started the buying group I talked about called...


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What is the goal here: to live your life to its fullest? Or to try scoring something on the order of non-death? Let Joe Rowlands help you decide... (Read more...)
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