The Kuwaiti progressive scholar Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a political science lecturer at Kuwait University, recently published several articles in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, denouncing religious thought and praising secularism.(Read more...)
Robert Kilroy-Silk, one of the leading British "eurosceptics" (i.e. oppenents of European federalisation) in the European Parliament, has had slurry tipped over him while on the way to take part in a live BBC radio broadcast. The assailant reportedly shouted that he was "doing this in the name of Islam".
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It is with the great American pride and joy in unabashed, unshameful love of Big Huge Things that Hardee's has introduced this gloriously oversized, fat-ridden burger and let it dangle right in front of the pinched faces of health nazis and "public interest" groups. I hope it gets fat and grease all over their Gap shir...(Read more...)
Cato Scholar Outlines Chile's Individual Account Success Posted by James Kilbourne on 12/04/2004, 10:56am
In today's New York Times, José Piñera, co-chairman of Cato's Project on Social Security Choice, outlines the benefits of Chile's personal retirement account system, a program he designed as Chile's secretary of labor and social security. "Since the system started on May 1, 1981, the average real return on the perso...(Read more...)
This is the first-hand story of an ordinary, non-Objectivist woman who become an Objectivist hero when she was forced to defend her life.(Read more...)
First they came for the titilators. The networks paid fines up to $3.5 million for "indecency." Then... The CBS and NBC television networks are refusing to run a 30-second television ad from the United Church of Christ because its all-inclusive welcome has been deemed "too controversial." What country a...(Read more...)
What good news, now I can go ahead and buy me a HUMVEE!!!! Posted by James Kilbourne on 12/01/2004, 4:01pm
The end of the age of oil? November 26, 2004 By Chris Bennett WorldNetDaily.com According the Washington Post (June 6, 2004), the world is on the verge of oil famine. BBC News declares "as certain as death and taxes, we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil." CBS, NBC and AB...(Read more...)
Libertarian legal theorist and Boston University Law Professor Randy Barnett is due before the US Supreme Court today, arguing in the Ashcroft v Raich medical marijuana case that the federal government does not have the power to regulate the use of medical marijuana. See also the Volokh Conspiracy law blog, where Profe...(Read more...)
