Archive for the ‘heroes’ Category
Monday, September 10th, 2007
I posted the following on the health care blog at Bell Policy Center, a left-leaning think tank in Colorado. I look forward to their comments.
This week's 20/20 will be about health care in the United States. The story on the ABC News website reads:
Healthy in Cuba, Sick ...
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Last night on the way to a debate on gun prohibition (which I had intended to write about this evening) my friend Ralph and I were talking about effective ways to advance pro-freedom policies in a culture dominated by misguided and counter-productive government interventions into peoples lives. I expressed ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
This is a manual cross-post to my AllConsuming.net account, where I track my reading:
Peter McWilliams is certainly a hero of mine for his prolific writing and political activism for civil liberties. This book interested me as both a memoir and a profile of the psychology of cults and indoctrination. ...
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
A couple weeks ago at I had the pleasure of playing against, and pitching to, Eric Cornell (Nobel Prize, Physics 2001) in the Staff Council Softball League at the University of Colorado. After once again experiencing his down-to-Earth enthusiasm, his volunteering to be the umpire for the first inning ...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
I finished this book by Richard Feyman recently (for the second time) and recorded a comment on it at allconsuming.net, which I reproduce here:
Feynman's narrative about the Challenger investigation is a great illustration of bureaucracy and politics that goes on in Washington, D.C. A great passage is at the ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
Next week Patri Friedman will speak at the University of Colorado about seasteading that is, creating sovereign floating cities at sea. Such ventures have been tried before, and failed. Yet, Patri is well informed, and credentialed, in economics, history, business, and engineering, and seems to have thought ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
To observe the 100th Anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, Alex and I attended a lecture by John Stossel at the University of Denver. Stossel is a hero of mine that I have now met. And he signed a poster I helped design for a Campus Libertarians event a ...
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