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9 Avalon Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 May 5, 2004   The Editor The Santa Fe New Mexican Dear Sir/Madame: John Betchik (letter May 2) appears to agree with Richard Barr who wrote in his "The Conscious Investor" column of March 16: "America will never be secure until everyone's basic needs are met. The lack of food, shelter, c... (See the whole report)

Ladies and Gentlemen (yes, Ladies, too), you are about to receive the greatest infringement possible upon your freedoms, one that would cause any other intrusions of the Welfare State into your lives to pale by comparison. For, you see, this planned intervention could quite easily kill you. The twin bills S 89, sponsored by Senator Fritz Ho... (See the whole report)

This is a request for discussion, and I really want to get perspectives other than my own, so I will try not to prejudge the issues. Any help you can give me, the better. If one submits an Op-Ed to a newspaper or to an op-ed distributor such as TOC, the distributor or publication always prefers, and usually insists, on making its own editor... (See the whole report)

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On behalf of SIU Students for a Libertarian Society, I would like to invite Soloists living in St. Louis, Memphis, Springfield, or Chicago to a dinner and speech event featuring Michael Badnarik on October, 9th at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in the Old Main Room of the student center. There will be a steak dinner at 5:00pm and a spee... (See the whole report)

After my letter advocating Objectivism was printed in the Herald, it was almost inevitable that a reader would write in to compare Rand to Hitler. I wrote this reply this morning, & will be persuing the matter with the Herald if they don't print it after printing Mr Pardons smear: Dear Sir, After taking a few calming breaths, I must expr... (See the whole report)

I heard about this one when I went to Andrew Bernstein's lecture at Northwestern University.....  Northwestern has a campus objectivism club and they held a bake sale as a fund/consciousness raiser.  They got into all kinds of trouble and were almost shut down for their bake sale.  They priced their items according to the race of the customer just ... (See the whole report)

I've written & sent a submission on the Arms Amendment Bill No. 3, a noxious piece of proposed legislation by which the New Zealand Government plans to introduce gun registration, prohibit the purchase & use of body armour by civilians (!), and continue a de-facto prohibition on armed self defense by citizens. You can read the submission in ... (See the whole report)

I added a link to the Ron Merrill archive - recently re-hosted - in the "Articles and Essays" section of the "Objectivism Web Directory" in the left-hand column of the Rebirth of Reason home page. (See the whole report)