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Reblogged: Assad’s “Moral Obscenity” Does Not Justify Obscenity 27 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
Secretary of State John Kerry is right that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s use of nerve gas against the Syrian population is a “moral obscenity”—but he is wrong that this moral obscenity justifies...
Reblogged: A DIM History of American Foreign Policy, Part 8: Ronald Re 27 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
Throughout this DIM narrative, my primary focus has been on the major foreign policy statements or “doctrines” of the presidents, which in my judgment are representative of their mode of foreign polic...
Reblogged: "Comprehensive" as Malleable 27 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
Mark Steyn makes several trenchant observations about ObamaCare as a law: ... "Comprehensive" today is a euphemism for interminably long, poorly drafted, and entirely unread - not just by the peoples...
Reblogged: Support for Honor Killings in Jordan 27 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am
This is horrifying… and fascinating: Third of teens in Amman, Jordan, condone honor killings, study says. Here’s the horrifying part: Almost half of boys and one in five girls in Jordan’s capital cit...
Teachers Demand Rand! 26 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
Ayn Rand's Novels Ordered in Record Numbers by High School Teachers - Rand's novella Anthem set for a Historic 75th Year IRVINE, Calif.—The Ayn RandInstitute announces that its “Books to Teachers” pr...
Formal proof of Capitalism's prosperity? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
In Ayn Rand's works it is de rigueur that Capitalism (here defined as a political system whose primary purpose the protection of individual rights) necessarily leads to two things. First, it will lead...
Reblogged: Alex Bogusky’s Self-Sacrificial “Buy American” Nonsen 26 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
Rebecca Cullers of Adweek claims that marketer and so-called “consumer advocate” Alex Bogusky has a “foolproof way of bringing back 1 million U.S. jobs.” Bogusky says in a YouTube video, “It’s as simp...
Reblogged: Totally Awesome! 26 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
I have received a series of really amazing responses to my most recent post about the possibility of a D-M mode from David Hayes and “Steve D,” which are contained in the comments to the previous post...
Reblogged: Eminent Domain vs. Banking 26 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
Government officials from several municipalities across the country are attempting to use their constitutional power of eminent domain to force banks to sell loans for less than they are worth. (It wa...
Conceptual lineage 26 Aug 2013 | 09:37 am
In ITOE Ayn Rand mentioned the "lineage", if you will, of concepts; how each concept is built from smaller concepts and smaller concepts in one massive hierarchy, all the way down to direct sensory-ex...
