The NFL makes a big money pact with evil corporation of the moment Electronic Arts, granting to EA exclusive rights to licensed NFL console and PC games. An effort to defend the NFL's brand integrity from low-priced competitors, or the beginnings of a sinister plot by EA to dominate the sports gaming market? The mob ...(Read more...)
The U.S. Military is facing such a severe lack of staff that they're asking (they cannot yet compel) soldiers as old as seventy years of age to return to active duty and be sent to such retirement paradises as Afghanistan.Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, an Army spokesman, said the service has taken back some 350 soldiers who ...(Read more...)
The FreeRad Interview with Nathaniel Branden is now posted online in full, including some parts that had to be cut out of the print edition for spatial reasons, such as questions about competition and TOC. It's a great reference for the interview, and the link to it is: http://www.nathanielbranden.com/ess/int02....(Read more...)
"Before we get lost in the policy details, let's be clear about what this Social Security reform debate is really about. It's about the market. People who instinctively trust the markets support the Bush reform ideas, and people who are suspicious oppose them." (Read more...)
I just learned through the October 2004 issue of American Atheist Newsletter that South Carolina, of all places, now has "In Reason We Trust" license plates. We need to start a movement in other states for the same kinds of plates and use South Carolina as a precedent.(Read more...)
In central Florida, two parents have gone on public strike against their ungrateful children. The parents actually pitched a tent and sat in reclining lawn chairs in their front yard sipping drinks next to a large sign that read "PARENTS ON STRIKE" and told their kids to fend for themselves for a change. The strike e...(Read more...)
I shamefully admit to having this word in my vocabulary, and still employ it in certain social situations. This research and analysis seems to be a pretty accurate description of how the term is used and what it means. (Read more...)
You might've noticed a new product we just added. Michael Newberry has made available the speeches given at his Foundation's conference, including speeches by Stephen Hicks, David Kelley, Martine Vaugel, Dr. Jan Koenderink, and of course Michael himself.
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