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…

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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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The print edition of the Winter issue is at press and will be mailed shortly; the online version will be accessible to subscribers beginning December 20. Both the winning entry from the first annual TOS essay contest and my interview with Andrew Schiff are available on our website early and…

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Craig Biddle's scheduled appearance on the Frank Beckmann Show this morning (Mon, Nov 1) has been cancelled due to pressing election news. It will be rescheduled as soon as possible.

Craig Biddle will present “Epistemology is a Moral Matter” at the North Texas Objectivist Society (NTOS) on Friday, Oct 22, at 7:00 p.m. The next evening, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Mr. Biddle will participate in a Q&A period about his work and Objectivism. And following the Q&A, NTOS will…

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[The following is an excerpt of from Craig Biddle’s article “The Creed of Sacrifice vs. The Land of Liberty.” Citations have been omitted here but are available in the article, which is accessible for free.] The correlation between the morality of sacrifice and the violation of rights is no accident.…

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