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Obama Takes Refuge as a Scoundrel

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" said Samuel Johnson. Well, not always. But President Obama has placed himself squarely in

Oct 2, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
U.S. Economic Freedom: Retreat Becomes Rout

Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....

Sep 21, 2012
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Walter Donway
6 Mins
Canada's Stephen Harper: Radical?

In January, 1962, in the very first issue of The Objectivist Newsletter, Ayn Rand wrote, “Objectivists are...

Feb 6, 2012
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Bradley Doucet
7 Mins
Better to Give? The Virtue of Selfishness at Christmas

When I think of Christmas, I think about gathering with family, sharing bounteous feasts, warming up in front of a roaring fire after...

Dec 21, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
8 Mins
America's "Civil War" Debt Battle

The major German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the debt-ceiling battle in Washington had a “civil war atmosphere.” But the war...

Aug 4, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
When Atlas Shrugged

The world of Atlas Shrugged is one in which government regulation, taxation, and outright control of the means of production have eaten away

Jul 28, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
7 Mins
TNI's Interview with Diana West

How does your book differ from those of so many other conservative social critics out there? One can think of Mark Steyn, Roger Kimball...

Jul 15, 2011
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Jack Criss
9 Mins
Avatar's Savage Message

James Cameron’s new film Avatar is loaded with fresh, eye-popping special effects, all in a new, cutting-edge 3-D that sets the standard....

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Savage and Inhuman

March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Why Is Health Such a Low Priority?

September 23, 2009—Something only rarely addressed during the acrimonious debate on health care is why we take such poor care of our health

Jun 1, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
How Valid an Analogy?

Summer 2009 -- Analogies, like fire, are useful servants but dangerous masters. Is the analogy with entrepreneurs a useful guide to the

May 30, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Starbucks' Fat Cup of Trouble

June 2006 -- Starbucks, of all enterprises, is the latest victim of food fascists. It is ironic that the Center for Science in the Public

May 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 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
Is Miss Cleo a Criminal? She's Certainly a Fraud

March 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, in her Caribbean accent, she offers to tell her callers’ fortunes, to

May 6, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Does Islam Need a Reformation?

This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a similar movement within Islam would....

Apr 12, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
7 Mins
When Lying Is a Good Thing: You Can't Handle the Truth!

March 2005 -- "You can't handle the truth!" says Jack Nicholson in the climax of the 1992 movie A Few Good Men. This is a good theme for

Mar 31, 2011
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Fred Cookinham
10 Mins
Multiculturalism and its Discontents

July/August 2005 -- England's multicultural delusions were literally exploded this past summer when British citizens, children of Islamic...

Mar 30, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
The Indictment of the West

We in the West may argue over whether Islamist terrorists hate us for what we do or for what we are. But if we pay attention to what they...

Mar 29, 2011
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Bruce S. Thornton
10 Mins
Immigration, Liberty, and the American Character

Immigration has become the most politically and emotionally charged domestic issue in the United States—which is ironic, given that this

Mar 29, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
12 Mins
It's a Conspiracy!

Regrettably, these somber remembrances and thoughtful reflections were marred by the loud, incendiary claims of conspiracy theorists.

Mar 29, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
6 Mins

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