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This Labor Day Celebrate Man’s Mind
On Labor Day, let us honor the true root of production and wealth: the human mind.
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Law >
Duke University Rape Case
Nothing should be surprising any more about the Duke University rape case. Still, it is a little staggering that, after all these months, District Attorney Mike Nifong has still not interviewed either the accuser or the accused. Rape is a felony with serious…
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Politics >
The Federal Death Agency (FDA)
The path to genetic cures and radical life extension begins with the abolition of that Servant of Death: the FDA.
Ammunition for Poverty Pimps
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, President Bush gave America’s poverty pimps and race hustlers new ammunition. The president said, “As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this…
Ostracism
Earlier this year, when the Ward Churchill essay became news, my initial reaction was that he should be charged with a crime such as ‘treason’ or ‘aiding and abetting the enemy’. But through discussion with friends, I realized my reaction was wrong, and that his…
The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire
Did J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie really make their fortunes as “Robber Barons” exploiting the common man? Was the Great Depression really caused by greedy businessmen and investors? Did the socialist Soviet Union actually surpass…
Rosa Parks: Pursuit of Profit vs. Racism
The death of Rosa Parks has reminded us of her place in history, as the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, in accordance with the Jim Crow laws of Alabama, became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and…
Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Chapter 2, Part 3 of 3)
Adapted from Chapter 2 of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It by Craig Biddle. According to Hume, if you see a man raping a woman, you cannot say that what you are witnessing is factually immoral; you cannot say that as a matter of…
World >
An Open Letter On Revolution in Iran
The Internet is a powerful tool for international understanding. This writer, through a chain of various links, found the web log of an anonymous Iranian girl. She had quoted the parts of President Bush’s State of the Union speech on Iran. “Different…
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Markets: Business & Economics >
Making a Financial Choice: More Capital or More Government Control
The Federal Reserve’s monetary and regulatory policies were major contributors to the 2007-2009 Great Recession.
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Science & Technology >
Reason vs Faith: Julian Simon vs Paul Ehrlich
In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul…
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