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This is the tenth entry in my Antistatism Series. Objectivism has nothing substantive to say about the private ownership of firearms, and nothing at all to say about the revolutionary and radical implications of the Second Amendment. Objectivists, in the aggregate, tend to follow Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff in thinking of the right to […]
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A recent comment on “It’s Ours To Lose†has inspired me to write up a brief progress report on my Antistatism Series. I’ve been considering posting a progress report for … years … now, but I’ve had other things on my mind. First, since this may not have been clear, the series is not complete. […]
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Turns out it’s serious business when someone is wrong on the internet … Two friends build a wind-powered car that travels directly downwind faster than the wind. It’s a neat case study in bias.
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For several years I was mildly curious about soccer. It seemed odd that the whole world but the U.S. followed the sport fanatically. I made it a point to catch a game or two on TV, to see if I was missing something. Years later, my curiosity had shifted. I no longer wondered why the […]
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Or, (E), you could have festooned the lampposts with the Statsi beforehand, and have been home in time for dinner. But it seems like I’m missing the point, doesn’t it?
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[Hayek] argues that markets generally do not reward “merit.†That is, the people who become wealthy in the marketplace do not do so, for the most part, because they are somehow “better†people than those who are not as wealthy. [Merit is] not what the market rewards. The market rewards the creation of value in […]
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Ruben Bolling attempts irony through hyperbole, fails.
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On the corruption of youth. But is it really the surest way?
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www.marriedtothesea.com This pleases me.
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From The Onion: What’s that? Now it’s making an appeal to reason? Never! Do you hear me, you eloquent, well-read behemoth? Never! We’ll die before we recognize what we secretly know to be true! The cognitive dissonance only makes our denial stronger! Via STR