What: A lecture by Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard and author of Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It Where: Medford Oregon, at the Rogue Valley Country Club, 2660 Hillcrest Rd. When: September 3, cocktails & hors d'oeuvres 5:00-7:00pm, lecture with Q&A 7:00-9:00pm…

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The online edition of the Summer issue has been posted to our website. The contents are: ARTICLES   ObamaCare v. the Constitution by Paul J. Beard II The Iranian and Saudi Regimes Must Go by Craig Biddle Interview with Reza Kahlili, an Ex-CIA Spy Embedded in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Interview…

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Dear WiR Reader, Due to my laptop crashing (and the ongoing recovery process), TOS’s Week in Review will not be published this Sunday. We apologize for the lapse and will resume next Sunday. Sincerely, Craig Biddle

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 24, 2011 The Syrian Rebels’ Efforts and America’s Self-Interest Will Libya be Obama’s Vietnam? Phantom Federal Budget “Cuts” Peter Schiff: S&P Late to The Party . . . Once Again The United Nations “Climate Refugee” Prediction . . . D’oh! 1. The Syrian Rebels’…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 17, 2011 1. Atlas Shrugged Opens in Theaters Across America A movie version of Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged opened in more than 300 theatres last Friday and is receiving a great deal of attention, positive and negative. Sales of…

Topic for 2011: Atlas Shrugged and Conflicts of Interest Among Rational Men In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand dramatizes the principle that "there are no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned . . . men who neither make sacrifices nor accept them." Elucidate and…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 10, 2011 1. The Budget Showdown The top story of the week is that Republicans in Congress—having been elected in large part on their promise to cut this year’s federal spending by $100 billion—and having then retreated to $61 billion—finally…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 3, 2011 1. Islamist Fantasies toward Future Atrocities FrontPage Magazine reports that the Iranian government has produced a “documentary” claiming that “Ayatollah Khamenei, President Ahmadinejad, and Hassan Nasrallah are talked about in Islamic prophecy as leaders who will wage war…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 27, 2011 1. Crappy Birthday, ObamaCare On the anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare, Pete Du Pont provides a summary of the political and economic havoc the law has wreaked and will wreak, and he calls for its repeal. Unfortunately,…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 20, 2011 Another Selfless War… The biggest news item of the past week is that the Obama administration has entered the United States into yet another selfless war, this one with Libya. The administration has done so not with the…

The print edition of the Spring issue is at press and will be mailed shortly; the online, e-book, and audio versions will be accessible to subscribers beginning March 20, 25, and 30 respectively; and the Kindle edition will be delivered to Kindle subscribers on March 30. For promotional purposes, we’ve…

What: A one-hour talk followed by a Q&A Who: Craig Biddle, editor of The Objective Standard Where: UCLA, Kinsey Pavillion 1240B When: Wednesday, January 26, 7:00pm Admission is FREE and open to the public. Description: America was founded on the principle of individual rights--the idea that each person has a…

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