Elan Journo of the Ayn Rand Institute wrote an interesting piece yesterday for Front Page Magazine. The article is called 'Bring Them War, Not Elections' and it mocks the way America and George Bush see democracy as a political cure-all for Muslim countries. (Read more...)
A great man: rebel, scholar, social satirist, Unitarian atheist, and profound individualist. He's up there with cantankerous geniuses like Douglas Adams, Arthur C. Clarke, Woody Allen, R. Crumb, Sam Kinison, and Howard Stern. From his first major novel, The Sirens of Titan (1959), Vonnegut was truly great. ----...(Read more...)
Per the Ayn Rand Institute Campus Events page: University of California, Los Angeles Thursday, April 12, 2007 Panel Discussion: "Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West" Dr. Yaron Brook, Dr. Daniel Pipes, and Dr. Wafa Sultan Moore 100 7:00pm http://www.clublogic.org/ Club Contact: Arthur Lec...(Read more...)
"It wasn't a lot of money. A few million (dollars) isn't much," he said. "We had to prove our loved ones were worth something." If this money was anything other than the fulfillment of some previously agreed contact, I find this story pretty sick and disappointing.(Read more...)