 "Under God": Why is TOC Pandering to Bigots?
by Adam Reed
For readers from countries other than United States of America, I shall start with a bit of our local anthropology. When an American child reaches the age of 4 or 5 or 6 - depending on where that child lives - his parents are compelled to send him to school. If the parents fail to do so, an armed officer of the law will show up at their doorstep and take their child, at gunpoint, to his assigned government school. (Read more...)
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 How Immigration Restrictions Violate the Rights of Citizens
by Adam Reed
It is the natural human right of each individual citizen to deal with all other people, including non-citizens of his choice, as he will, provided only that these dealings respect the individual rights of all persons. It is not possible for governments to restrict the immigration of non-criminal persons without, in the process of doing so, carrying out obscene violations of the rights of their own citizens. (Read more...)
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After the Iraq War
by Adam Reed
Enough time has elapsed from the recent US-British-Polish war on Saddam's Iraq to consider post-war evidence and current US policy. (Read more...)
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Look Who's Filming "Atlas Shrugged"
by Adam Reed
Ayn Rand saw human civilization perishing in an orgy of self-sacrifice, and wrote Atlas Shrugged to stop it - by taking morality away from the Christians, whose mythology was the source of the universal orgy of self-sacrifice that Rand meant to stop. (Read more...)
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A First Political Victory
by Adam Reed
The first significant exception -- and the first electoral victory for a political party that campaigned simultaneously against the socialist welfare state and against religious coercion, for freedom of science and freedom of production and trade -- took place in the February election in Israel. (Read more...)
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