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Individualism
"That one word—individualism—is to be the theme song, the goal, the only aim of all my writing. If I have any real mission in life—this is it."
—Ayn Rand
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8/27/10 Intended Catholic Dictatorship
The ultimate intention of Catholicism is the restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. That has always been the ambition, at least covertly, but now it is being promoted overtly and openly.
The purpose of this article is only to make that intention clear. It is not a criticism of Catholics or Catholicism (unless you happen to think a Catholic dictatorship is not a good thing). |
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8/6/10 Fear of Wikileaks
Spec. Bradley Manning has been charged with providing the website WikiLeaks.org with a video of a US helicopter shooting unarmed civilians in Iraq and releasing thousands of secret US documents exposing corruption and incompetence in the Afghan War, and the US government is now
at war with Wikileaks, and its founder and editor Julian Assange. |
Abelard and Universals
7/2/10 | During a recent exchange of comments to one of my columns, I was reminded of a point I've intended to document for a long time. That point has to do with the concept of universals and a much neglected twelfth century philosopher,
Peter Abelard. Peter Abelard demolished the concept of Aristotelian, "forms," but rescued the nature of concepts from what would become in, lesser minds, "nominalism," of which most commentators falsely accuse Abelard. |
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6/28/10 Cops and Robbers: No Difference
Used to be, cops were the good guys, and the robbers were the bad guys; now the cops and robbers are the same people. They both steal people's property--when a crook does it, it's still called robbery; when the cops do it, it's called
asset forfeiture. |
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6/24/10 You Asked For It
The violation of principles is like poison. You cannot violate a principle a little bit, and you cannot take a little bit of poison. |
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6/18/10 It's Not Science That's Needed, It's Freedom
Dennis Avery's good article,
Making Good Science Decisions is a good expose of the media-fed paranoia that has terrified the public into fearing anything that comes from science or technology. There is one paragraph in that article, however, which is not true. |
Ask Regi - 2
6/14/10 Ayn Rand and Children
This question actually comes from a response to one of my articles. I'm using it because it is an example of a common misunderstanding about Rand. Here is the question: |
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6/11/10 Environmentalists and Government Destroy Gulf
Like a petulant child, Obama commands, "Plug the damn hole." It's his solution to the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill. He's given the order, why hasn't it happened? |
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6/3/10 No, It's Not Normal
"Barack Obama, President of the United States of America," has committed the most despicable of abominations. As official U.S. policy, the month of June has been designated a month to "celebrate" lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental ailments as something to be proud of. I suspect the next proclamation will be the designation of a month to celebrate pica, self-cutting, BIID, and bulimia as things to be proud of. |
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5/31/10 Obama Is After Your Children
President Obama wants the U.S. to ratify the
U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which will essentially give the government total control of our children, not only during school hours, but 24 hours a day in our homes. |
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5/24/10 Insanity--May Be Why Your Police State Is Not Working
First some good news...ah...well not so bad news, unless you consider what it means about that state of what is called science these days, and the fact that such nonsense can be published with a "straight face," so to speak. |
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5/18/10 Death by Alphabet--Why Tea Parties Won't Work
I am certainly not opposed to the so-called Tea-Party Movement, and if wishes would work, I would wish them success. Unfortunately, wishes do not work, and neither will the Tea-Pary Movement. There is one real danger in the Tea Parties, which I'm afraid are giving too many people a false hope of changing things in American politics, and of course giving those participating a false sense of "doing something." |
Patent Absurdity and Tyranny of the Mind
5/14/10 | My intention here is not convince anyone or convert them to my views, but, for those who get worked up over my views, and feel they just have show me the errors of my way, I wish to save them some trouble, by showing there is hardly an argument for the pseudo-concept "intellectual property," I have not already encountered, considered, and addressed. For those who have their own suspicions about the validity of the intellectual property concept, but have not been able to put those doubts into a concrete form, these notes may help them do that. |
What is an Arab?
5/11/10 
In one sense, the questions of ethnicity can probably never be answered with any technical precision. It is like asking, what is a Moor? What is a Jew? Who knows? The Sephardic Jews may very well be Spanish, and the Ashkenazi Jews Slavic, (at least mixtures), although they go to a lot of trouble to demonstrate they are "genetically" Jewish. |
Muslim Does Not Mean Arab
5/13/10 
Most people assume there is little distinction between Arabs and Muslims. It is the reason educators, politicians, media news people and commentators all repeat ignorant expressions like "Arab Terrorism." |
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5/10/10 Please Shut Up!
Will someone please tell these lying leftists to please SHUT UP!!! Nobody believes them anymore, and everyone knows the entire environmental movement is about nothing but power, and money. |
Education and Children
5/11/10 | This is a follow up to the first "Ask Regi" article. That question was essentially about the availability of homeschooling curricula and material other than that which is mostly Christian or Biblically oriented. |
Our Prussian ``Public`` Schools
5/29/10 | In my article, "Education and Children," I wrote: "Unfortunately, to some extent, almost everyone has bought the ideas of the Prussian model of education, and even homeschoolers frequently implement many of those same wrong principles in their efforts to educate their children." |
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5/6/10 Causes: of Invasions, and Everything Else
When there is a problem of any kind, the problem must first be identified, the cause of the problem discovered, and a solution applied which eliminates that cause. Too often a problem is identified, and assumed to be it's own cause, and like a mouse in the pantry, the solution used is to blow it away with a 12 gauge short gun, never mind the damage it does to the pantry. The problem is gone, but so is all the food. Wrong solution. |
Ask Regi - 1
5/2/10 About Homeschooling
I have my first "Ask Regi" question, and it is a bit of a surprise. As the writer mentions, it is "non-philosophical,"--or is it? |
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A Free Market of Ideas
George Bernard Shaw said: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." It is true, most people are terrified of liberty, petrified they might have to be responsible for their own lives. "The Autonomist," is not for them.
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The Third American Revolution
Tom DeWeese—9/2/10  The revolution of 1776 was not just an exercise by armed men seeking to overthrow their current government - as had been done so many times throughout history. |
The Hardest Decision Of My Life
Chuck Baldwin—9/2/10  Last Sunday, August 29, 2010, was the hardest day of my life. Even when my father made me promise that I would preach his funeral (which I did--twice: once in Indiana where he lived, and again in Florida where I live and where he is buried), that was not as difficult and gut wrenching as what I had to do last Sunday. Last Sunday, I retired as the pastor of the church that my wife and I founded 35 years ago: the Crossroad Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida. |
A Commander-in-Chief Not Worthy Of His Troops
J. D. Longstreet—9/2/10  America did not win the war in Iraq. That's a fact. America did not win the first Iraq war. That, too, is a fact. Iraq is set up, as we write these few comments, for its next dictator -- with at least a couple of Iraqis preening themselves in the shadows just waiting for the moment, which will not be long in coming. |
A Plea For Intolorence
Burt Prelutsky—9/1/10  Lately, you have probably noticed that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken to lecturing the rest of us on tolerance. I call it presumptuous, as well as ill-timed. It's presumptuous because he believes that he, alone, is in a position to tell Americans how we should feel about a massive mosque being built next to Ground Zero, as if being wealthy and an elected official somehow provided him with a moral superiority that we mere mortals could never hope to match. |
Obama and FDR: They Really Are Alike!
Dennis T. Avery—9/1/10  We've spent $787 billion on a stimulus program that didn't stimulate. We've obligated at least $1 trillion to raise everyone's future health care costs. The Democrats have just scraped up $26 billion to bail out public employee unions no matter how lavish their contracts. The Federal deficit may well double, to more than $20 trillion, by 2020. |
You Wouldn't Take a Dog to that Clinic
Michael R. Shannon—9/1/10  Fetuses all across Virginia are smiling on their sonograms this week in the wake of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's opinion that concludes the Commonwealth can legally resume oversight over "clinics" that abort the unborn. |
Free Will Applies to a Person, not a Country
Amber Pawlik—8/31/10  President Obama announced that U.S. combat operations in Iraq will end on August 31. He said, "But the bottom line is this: the war is ending. Like any sovereign, independent nation, Iraq is free to chart its own course." |
We Need A Revolution, Not A Movement
Chuck Baldwin—8/31/10 | The elections of 2008 (and the early elections of 2010) produced two significant phenomena: the "Ron Paul Revolution," and the "Tea Party Movement." And, mark it down: both of them will have profound effects upon the upcoming November elections--and upon the 2012 elections as well. Call them what you want, however, America doesn't need another movement; it needs a genuine revolution. |
It Is A Fearful Thing To Fall Into The Hands Of The Living God
J. D. Longstreet—8/31/10 | I grew up at a time when a southern gentleman had a bible in one hand and a firearm in the other. We could pray or fight, at the drop of a hat, whatever the preference of our advisory might be. |
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Burt Prelutsky—8/30/10 | As I sit here, I have no idea how things will play out for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters, although I find it highly unlikely that either of them will end up in a congressional trial, no matter how much the defendants claim they wish to have the air cleared. When Nancy Pelosi insisted that under the Democrats, the swamp that is Capitol Hill would be drained, she should have kept in mind that after such a draining it's not treasure chests and fields of four-leaf clovers that are uncovered, but creepy, crawly things. |
Our Schools, Dumb and Dumber
Alan Caruba—8/30/10  As the nation's children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda. |
America On The Brink Of Nuclear Destruction?
J. D. Longstreet—8/30/10 | " ... intelligence reports from various sources say al Qaeda has already smuggled from 7 to 70 nuclear weapons into the country across the Mexican border. American intelligence experts believe the number to be closer to 7 than 70 but admit the threat is very real." |
Leaders in Name Only
Burt Prelutsky—8/27/10 | I suppose it's only natural that politicians who wind up on Capitol Hill forget that they are mere mortals. After all, when everyone is vying for your attention and all the Sunday talk shows are eager to have you stop by and spout off, and you have as many flunkies at your beck and call as Marie Antoinette, it must be awfully easy to believe you have achieved royal status. In fact, all that you've really done is beat out some other schnook in a popularity contest. |
How I Learned to Love the Bomb
Alan Caruba—8/27/10 | As a child in the 1950s, I learned how to "duck and cover" in order to protect myself from an atomic bomb explosion. Little did I know that the instruction should have been "Kiss your asterisk goodbye." |
Will The US Military Be Disenfranchised this November?
J. D. Longstreet—8/27/10 | There is concern that Obama's DOJ, under the leadership of Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, might not be enforcing the new Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act as vigorously as they should. |
John McCain's Attack On Liberty
Chuck Baldwin—8/26/10 | Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? |
End environmental experiments on Africans!
Fiona Kobusingye—8/26/10 | I wish I had a shilling for every time someone told me spraying homes with DDT to prevent malaria is like using Africans in evil experiments. I would be a rich woman.
That claim is a blatant falsehood. Even worse, it hides the many ways poor Africans really are being used in environmental experiments that cause increased poverty, disease and death. |
Has Mexico Become Somalia?
J. D. Longstreet—8/26/10 | If Republicans recapture the US Congress this November, one of the first orders of business should be to fence off our southern neighbor, Mexico. |
Dracula, Frankenstein, and a Lib Walk Into a Bar
Burt Prelutsky—8/25/10 | In all the old horror movies, the master villain always had an assistant. More often that not, his name was Igor. He tended to lurch and he was usually a hunchback. I always wondered how he got the job. I mean, how would you go about finding someone who'd round up a human brain at a moment's notice? Was it by referral? Did they hook up during Career Day at the Academy for the Criminally Insane? Did he answer an ad in the New York Times? |
''Extreme Weather?'' Not Yet!
Dennis T. Avery—8/25/10 | Churchville, VA-The death toll from recent "extreme weather events" has been sharply declining since the 1920s, as my valued colleague Indur Goklany has valorously pointed out. Air conditioning, flood control, earthquake proofing and better weather forecasting have all helped. Despite vast media coverage, extreme weather now causes only a half-percent of global deaths. A large part of the gains came through crop production increases using fossil-fueled industrial fertilizers and irrigation pumps. This meant the world had fossil-fueled food to share with countries suddenly caught by devastating (but short- term) drought or flood. |
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