This is excellent news - it looks like the Palestinian leadership is willing to halt attacks on Israel in an attempt to restart peace talks:The president ordered the Palestinian police, preventative security and the intelligence units to spread inside the cities and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip to maintain order and...(Read more...)
Reminder! SOLO Youth Is Coming! Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 1/20, 4:03pm
Spread the word, folks, from sea to shining sea, from ocean to ocean, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Here's Phil Howison's original message: "Coming in February, SOLO's newest subsite, designed for Objectivist teenagers. We need everyone to get behind this exciting development! Urgently needed: *Articles a...(Read more...)
You've gotta love this. He campaigns against an armed citizenry, and hires armed bodyguards who are too stupid to understand firearms legislation. FFS! NEW YORK — Filmmaker Michael Moore's (search) bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night. Police too...(Read more...)
This story from the campus newspaper of University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando exemplifies the small but influential fervent religious minority in the United States.
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The so-called International Society for Individual Liberty sponsors, albeit by a somewhat circuitous route, a news service called Freedom News Daily. Before ISIL took it over, it was a fine source of information as to what was going on all over the world that was relevant to the issue of individual liberty. Much of the...(Read more...)
Ed Hudgins just wrote a brilliant review of "The Aviator." Now I've been spared the job of writing my own review, as I had for The Incredibles, because this time Hudgins wrote everything I myself would have written. If only the man had a backbone as well as a brain... Anyway, not enough reason to work with TOC again, ...(Read more...)
The House of Lords has determined that the continued detention of 11 men without trial under Britain's antiterrorism laws is in fact illegal. The Government has done nothing about it, although it has promised to 'review' the relevant laws. In protest, two of the Government's special defense lawyers have resigned.A la...(Read more...)
After reading Kelley's article on why generosity is in our self-interest, it is refreshing to read Mark Steyn's realistic assessment of the West's orgy of generosity toward the tsunami victims. Steyn is as Objectivist as it can get in his final punch line: "Why do we hate us?"
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