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ARI Essays Back Online
Posted by Michael Marotta on 7/05, 8:32am
Apparently an upgrade broke the link to the Essay Contests. They have been restored. From the homepage, choose Students, then select the blue square Essay Contests. You can scroll down again to Past Winners "(Read the Winning Essay" to enjoy the selected best essays from 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. You can also click A...(Read more...)
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Political Junkies
Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 10/20, 10:10am
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NASA Report Details How Agency Significantly Benefits US Economy
Posted by Luke Setzer on 9/25, 5:53am
I see reports like this one and question them.  The link goes to a summary page which in turn links to the actual study spanning 2,670 pages.  Ouch.  Outside the root moral issue of expropriating personal wealth via taxes to spend on goals chosen by political rather than market forces, where would a person begin to exa...(Read more...)
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Video: Should libertarians vote for Biden, Jorgensen, or Trump in the next presidential election?
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 8/04, 4:29pm
That was the topic of an online Soho Forum debate held on Wednesday, July 22, 2020. It featured George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin; Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County; and Francis Menton, a retired attorney who blogs at Manhattan Contrarian. The debate was moderated b...(Read more...)
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Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 7/30, 3:29pm
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Is RoR on line again?
Posted by Sam Erica on 6/12, 8:05am
Testing, testing, testing. Am I the first to notice that RoR is on line again after a long hiatus? ...(Read more...)
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After a devastating gas pipeline explosion, Massachusetts ends licensing exemption.
Posted by Luke Setzer on 3/18, 11:27am
Following the disaster, the National Transportation Safety Board investigated the incident and consulted with NSPE. The Society and NTSB staff spent several weeks discussing the engineering licensing process, its standards, and NSPE’s opposition to licensing law exemptions. NSPE shared several documents, includin...(Read more...)
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Asteroid Success
Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 9/28, 3:02am
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Professor’s contract with students: ‘Drop the class immediately if you are triggered by free speech’
Posted by Luke Setzer on 8/23, 1:09pm
A professor has taken a novel approach when it comes to dealing with the increasing number of students railing against and even shutting down academic ideas they don’t agree with: a contract.(Read more...)
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Intelligence Squared US Debate: THE MORE WE EVOLVE, THE LESS WE NEED GOD
Posted by Jeff Landauer on 4/12, 1:13pm
Some mighty powerful subjectivism on the opposing side, the likes of which I don't know if I've ever really heard aside from an Ayn Rand villain. ...(Read more...)
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