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Environmentalist ‘truthiness’ - Rachel Carson is a murderess…

Rachel Carson is effectively the “mother” of the environmentalist movement. Fortunately, she is dead. Unfortunately she is still causing damage. Not only her ideas but her tactics (lies, propaganda and panic) live on. “The crusade against DDT began with Carson’s antipesticide diatribe “Silent Spring,” published in 1962 at the height of the worldwide antimalaria campaign. The [...]

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The fundamental oppression of freedom in the name of others…

At this moment I am working on another project that is devoted to the essential importance of human choice. The core concept that a human has a moral right to exist on their own terms and pursue their own goals. Obviously there are limits to that, the initiation of violence being one of them. Now [...]

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Ayn Rand is still amazing to listen too…

Sadly there isn’t time right now to discuss allt he ways that AYn Rand was brilliantly insightful The links below will allow you to see some inteviews she did int he past that will be of interest. Specially amusing is how applicable her comments about the Middle East (at 04:45 into part 4 of the Donahue [...]

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The significance of the (reaction to the) Edwards story

Glenn Greenwald over at Unclaimed Territory has a post up titled “The significance of the Edwards story” and I want to take a look at not just that post, but the phenomena he discusses. Though a more thorough essay on the topic will have to wait for another time we can take a fast look [...]

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Ayn Rand - Mike Wallace Interview, 1959

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3   [tags]ayn rand, objectivism, interviews, brilliance[/tags] Popularity: 3% [?]

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Philosophy: Who Needs It…

  In response to recent events… go ahead and read this awesome speech by Ayn Rand to the Graduating Class of The United States Military Academy at West Point in 1974. Well worth it. Popularity: 3% [?]

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