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9-11: The Ultimate Philosophy Lesson

So much has been written about the 9-11 terrorist attacks that it is difficult to add much that is new or enlightening...

Jun 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
A Specter No Longer Haunts the Republican Party

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s sudden change from the Republican to the Democratic Party has left Republicans with mixed feelings: rag

Jun 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 mins
Al Franken is Responsible for Not Being Responsible

Entertainment celebrities with leftist political views are hardly anything new. What is unusual, however, is for one to reveal the deep

Jun 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
A Specter of Small Government?

May 1, 2009—Republicans can both boo and cheer Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party. It’s a heavy blow for them to lose their

Jun 8, 2011
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3 Mins
Porque é que a guerra contra (algumas) drogas continua?

26 de Março de 2009 -- A Guerra das Drogas voltou a aparecer nas notícias esta semana. A Secretária de Estado Hillary Clinton partiu para o México na quarta-feira.

1 de Junho, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
O Triunfo do Leviatã

October 1, 2003 -- Communism is dead; long live capitalism. Surely there is some truth to this claim, as even diehard advocates of communism

31 de Maio de 2011
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Herbert Londres
4 Mins
Porque não posso vender-te o meu rim?

Parem-me se já ouviram esta: três presidentes de câmara e cinco rabinos entram num bar-não, desculpem-me, estão atrás das grades. Na verdade, não é uma piada...

31 de Maio de 2011
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Bradley Doucet
4 Mins
Este é Bob Barr

Editor’s Note: Bob Barr’s wide-ranging career has spanned law and politics, and multiple roles, including CIA analyst (1971-1978)..

30 de Maio de 2011
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Lance Lamberton
10 Mins
Editor's Desk: The New Indulgences

Summer 2009 issue -- President Obama seems to have taken a page from Pastor Rick Warren’s playbook. POTUS is calling us

30 de Maio de 2011
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3 Mins
Um suspeito não é um criminoso

As the director of the Business Rights Center at the fiercely pro-capitalist Atlas Society, I shall not be accused, I think, of harboring

May 20, 2011
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3 Mins
Segurança e Liberdade

As the congress debates a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more critical time to recall the

May 10, 2011
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3 Mins
Medicare -- The Mammoth in the Living Room

October 2009 -- Is there an adult in the house? Are we all operating with one collective mind, or are there still those who possess reasonin

May 9, 2011
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Judy Kopulos
5 Mins
Over Bin Laden's Dead Body

In Homer’s Iliad Trojan prince Hector is slain in combat by the Greek champion Achilles. But blinded by anger, Achilles desecrates Hector’s

May 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
An Analysis of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. A

May 6, 2011
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8 Mins
Myth: Ayn Rand was Simply Pro-Wealthy and Pro-Business

Ayn Rand supported a laissez-faire capitalist economic system and defended the morality of making a profit through private business.

4 de Maio de 2011
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William Thomas
5 Mins
Freedom is a Crack

August 14, 2009 -- I am told that today's system of medical care in the United States lets too many people "fall through the cracks.".....

Apr 29, 2011
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Walter Donway
3 Mins
Free Minds and Free Militaries

March 31, 2003 -- Among the perennial themes in American political life, one of the most crucial is the contest between individualism and

Apr 29, 2011
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5 Mins
The Freedom Olympics

Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward—backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic.

Apr 10, 2011
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10 Mins
Ragnar Shrugged

Norway recently lost its wealthiest citizen. No, he didn't die. Rather, he left or, to be more accurate, was driven out of the country for..

5 de Abril, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
When Does Speech Become Treason?

Winter 2005 -- When Michael Moore’s twisted anti-Bush jeremiad, Fahrenheit 9/11, was released, many Republicans, conservatives, and

31 de Março, 2011
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Henry Mark Holzer
10 Mins

Promovemos el objetivismo abierto: la filosofía de la razón, el logro, el individualismo y la libertad.