From today's Washington Post! -------------- 'Batman's' Laissez-Faire-Weather Fans By Ann Hornaday Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 3, 2005; N03 Holy smaller government and lower taxes, Batman! "Batman Begins," Christopher Nolan's brooding comic-book blockbuster that ha...(Read more...)
"Because he refuses to cloak the reality of the world’s suffering in a cloying fantasy of eternal life, the atheist feels in his bones just how precious life is -- and, indeed, how unfortunate it is that millions of human beings suffer the most harrowing abridgements of their happiness for no good reason at all. ... As...(Read more...)
When I first posted on Solo in earnest - finally announcing that I was an Objectivist, it was Robert Bidinotto who immediately posted to me with an extremely warm welcome. Now his efforts as the editor of The New Individualist have finally hit the street and I would like to extend the gesture back in a small manner. ...(Read more...)
A 10-year-old British girl saved 100 other tourists from the Asian tsunami, having warned them a giant mass of water was on its way, after learning about the phenomenon weeks earlier at school. Tilly recognised the danger signs. "I was on the beach and the water started to go funny," Tilly Smith told the Sun at the w...(Read more...)
Kenneth LeVey of Illinois Tool Works has reinvented the threaded fastener, in a way that makes it grip tight in materials where it used to come loose.(Read more...)
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE Posted by Barbara Branden
on 3/07, 6:06pm
ONE GERMAN WHO GETS IT Matthias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily newspaper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat. EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE ...(Read more...)
This article by Brian Doherty is everything that a libertarian review of Ayn Rand "can be and ought to be." Perhaps I cancelled my "Reason" subscription a bit hastily.(Read more...)
