Friday, December 25th, 2009
Some excerpts from Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute in US News and World Report: I'm an atheist, and I love Christmas. If you think that's a contradiction, think again. ... "The best aspect of Christmas," Ayn Rand once observed, is "that Christmas has been commercialized." The gift buying ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Would you like more students in Colorado to read Ayn Rand's novels? Then donate to the Ayn Rand Institute's Free Books to Teachers Program. Here's some information about the program in Colorado.
This coming Saturday (Nov. 7) Front Range Objectivism is hosting the program's annual fund-raising dinner in Arvada:
"Free Books to ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Last week my thoughts on third parties and mandatory voting were published in the Boulder Daily Camera:
No one likes to hold their nose and vote for a candidate they perceive as the "lesser of two evils." But voting for your favorite minor-party candidate can help elect the "greater of two ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
From the Wall Street Journal, a story that could come right out of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead:
...tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in Hurricane Katrina and are still living in federally owned trailers will be forced to find a new place to live. After nearly three years, ...
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
Some good news for today, as reported by the Free State Project and the Atlasphere.
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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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Thursday, January 16th, 2003
It happened again: I"m in the bathroom in the Engineering Center, and this guy sitting in the stall next to me is talking on his cell phone! As George Costanza has said: "We live in a society!" So I'm thinking "Is it rude to flush?". How ...
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Thursday, June 20th, 2002
I've been listening to a lot of The Flaming Lips lately. Good stuff, more produced that the other music I listen to, but it's worth it. One of the songs I heard first on 88.5 WXPN FM in Philadelphia, probably the best radio station I've ever heard. This was when ...
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