Capturing the Spirit

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On everything Obama is 'unerring'...If you think he's changed his mind you're mistaken...As befits a man who's treated by the press as not presidential but papal he believes himself infallible. I wouldn't be surprised if in Berlin he holds not a rally, but a mass.

Charles Krauthammer
Special Report with Brit Hume, July 23, 2008

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

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9/11, Katrina, and PTSD

"... commonly held views of heroism and stress response
are both inter-related and misplaced." (Read the entire blog entry)

(Added by Michael E. Marotta on 7/23, 2:47pm)

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Zimbabwe introduces a new 100-billion-dollar bank note as the annual inflation rate hits 2.2 million percent.
Posted by Ted Keer on 7/23, 8:27am

From Wikipedia: In February 2007, the central bank of Zimbabwe declared inflation "illegal", outlawing any raise in prices on certain commodities between 1 March and 30 June 2007. Officials have arrested executives of some Zimbabwean companies for increasing prices on their products. Economists generally suspect...(Read more...)

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Ayn Rand interviewed by Mike Wallace on YouTube
Posted by William Dwyer on 7/22, 11:52pm

Fascinating three-part interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace in 1959. If you haven't seen it, this is definitely worth watching. And if you have, it is worth watching again! You get a real feel for Rand not only as a sharp, perceptive and original thinker, but also as one who responds in a measured, respectful tone to ...(Read more...)

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Ayn Rand interviewed by Mike Wallace on YouTube
Posted by William Dwyer on 7/22, 11:43pm

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Mass Murderer Radovan Karadzic Arrested after 12 Year Manhunt
Posted by Ted Keer on 7/22, 3:15am

Serbian poet-psychiatrist-psychopath Radovan Karadzic (rhymes with "garage-itch") has been arrested after a 12 year manhunt. (He is pictured here hiding under a badger.) European authorities expect to hold him until he commits suicide from sheer boredom, as did his fellow traveller, Slobodan Milosevic, (rhymes with "...(Read more...)

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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(Added by Ted Keer on 7/21, 10:33pm)

Polls:

Would you register for the Objectivist Party?

0) I'm an O'ist & I might

1) I'm an O'ist but I won't

2) I'm no O'ist but I might

3) I'm no O'ist & I won't

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Doomsday Called Off
Posted by Ted Keer on 7/19, 7:09pm

Challenging the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Global Warming.(Read more...)

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Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
Starring: Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom,..., Christopher Lee, Sean Astin, Sean Bean ...
Director: Peter Jackson

Good versus evil. ... (See the whole review)

(Added by Michael E. Marotta on 7/19, 6:48pm)

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Ayn Rand Society - Esthetic Value
Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 7/19, 7:44am

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Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas
Posted by Merlin Jetton on 7/19, 6:31am

What a gas! I wonder what a bull thinks, seeing such a bag on a female.(Read more...)

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Download 100,000's of Books Free
Posted by Ted Keer on 7/18, 8:00pm

The World EbookFair offershundreds of thousands of titlesfor free download. Most are of expired copyrigt. I have downloaded the titles below: warandpeace.pdf trask dictionary basque.pdf thucydides-historyofpeloponesianwars.pdf theghostsingersoll.pdf thefrogs.pdf talesfromthenorse.pdf supersti...(Read more...)

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've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Freed Lebanese prisoners vow to fight Israel
Posted by Laure Chipman on 7/17, 11:33am

Israel gives back 5 live soldiers in exchange for 2 dead ones. This is just incomprehensibly stupid to me. Are they just that sentimental about having the dead bodies back for some religious reason? The least they could have done was to shoot the 5 soldiers before exchanging them!(Read more...)

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Thursday
July 17, 2008

A Chance for Freedom? by Tibor R. Machan

Lugano, Switzerland: Over the last two and a half decades or so I have been attending conferences organized by the Business & Economics Society International that has its home at Assumption College in New Hampshire.
This summer I believe I have attended for the fifth or sixth time, often presenting papers and taking part in discussions about business ethics and political economy.
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