In this eye opening article, the New York Post's Stanley Kurtz explains how ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) -- a law that allows groups like ACORN to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers -- are at the roots of today's econ...(Read more...)
SOLO and Stolyarov Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/02/2004, 2:06am
I have received an e-mail from Mr Stolyarov, offering to list SOLO’s merchandise on a new store he is setting up on his own site. All he asks in return is that he be permitted to announce the new store as a news item on SOLOHQ. Ordinarily I would agree unhesitatingly to such a proposal from a regular, not to mention pr...(Read more...)
Unsanctioning Unsanctioning! :-) Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/20/2004, 8:04pm
SOLOists We've taken on board the very legitimate gripes about how the unsanctioning system was being used vindictively in a couple of cases, & might be discouraging some folk from expressing their opinions with full candour. We acknowledge that it also enabled folk to bag someone's contribution & pull him down ...(Read more...)
Welcome to SOLO Music! Inspired by the recent revival of the SOLO food forum, headed by the unflappable Ciro D'Agostino, SOLO Music is going to be a little different than the standard forum. In "Why SOLO?" Lindsay Perigo asks: "Well, now that we're here, what the hell are we here for?" SOLO music is here for...(Read more...)
You have heard a lot about this lecture...including plenty of intemperate invective from people who denounced it before they even knew its content. But now Barbara Branden's 2006 TAS Summer Seminar presentation, "Objectivism and Rage," is posted online. Read it and judge it -- and its critics -- for yours...(Read more...)
Today, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged, philosopher David Kelley, founder of The Atlas Society, has published a tribute to Ayn Rand's masterwork titled "Capitalist Heroes" in today's Wall Street Journal. (Online access requires subscription.) This is the latest in a campaign of natio...(Read more...)
Chris tells me he's home, & feeling pretty rough after a harrowing procedure. Details at his Notablog: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/notablog/archives/000814.html You'll be fine, DDD. Ya can't keep a bad boy down! :-) Lotsaluv Linz(Read more...)
