Lindsay at TOC Summer Seminar '04 Posted by sciabarra on 7/06/2004, 2:25pm
I've received two phone calls from Lindsay Perigo, who reports that he's having a grand time at The Objectivist Center Summer Seminar at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Lindsay presented his talk, "The Elixir of Youth," and participated in a panel discussion, "Objectivism and Libertarianism: A Reass...(Read more...)
I thunderously applaud what Bill Cosby said to the black community on Thursday, July 1st at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference in Chicago, and I am again disgusted by the cowardly, malignant attitude that the Revered Jesse Jackson displayed with his comments at that event... ...(Read more...)
Hilary Clinton (D-NY) has just revealed herself for the looter that she is at a Democratic Party fundraiser in San Francisco. Speaking to supporters rich enough to afford to pay $10,000 to attend this event, Senator Clinton said the following: "Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helpe...(Read more...)
Editorial Update! Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 6/27/2004, 3:22am
Boys & girls - later this week I shall be leaving for The Objectivist Center's Summer Seminar in Vancouver. There I shall be presenting a revised version of my SOLOC 2 presentation, The Elixir of Youth, & participating in a panel discussion on libertarianism. Editor's duties during my absence will revert to Joe & Jeff....(Read more...)
By all means, let's all lie down and accept this fate. After all, we wouldn't want to be "uncompassionate" toward these "misunderstood, culturally diverse people". Some of you won't take this seriously, until it's you begging for your life, in front of a video camera. Of course, I'm probably just being ...(Read more...)
“The privately funded rocket plane SpaceShipOne flew to outer space and into history books on Monday as the world's first commercial manned space flight.” SpaceShipOne was designed by Burt Rutan and funded, among others, by Microsoft entrepreneur Paul Allen. On February 4, 2003, following the Columbia A...(Read more...)
Solo Club galleries Posted by Joseph Rowlands
on 6/19/2004, 2:58am
Hello everyone. I added a new function to the site the other day, which some of you may have noticed. The SOLO mini-clubs now have the ability to have local news, polls, and even articles. The main thing is the news for now. If you have some local news event, you can now select your mini-club as the category type. ...(Read more...)
"In short, the commission repudiates the policy of leaving space travel firmly in the hands of the state. And about time, too. For if human beings are truly meant to slip the surly bonds of Earth, as the poem "High Flight" says -- if we are destined to live on the moon, walk on Mars, explore the solar system -- we will...(Read more...)
The results for the latest elections to the Euroepan Parliament, which has representatives from all member-nations of the European Union, show stunning gains for parties opposed to further integration of the EU (usually unflatteringly referred to as "eurosceptics"). The most sensational result was here in the UK, where...(Read more...)
