Get Over Your Industrial Complex
From the monthly archives:
In one of my recent articles, “Objectivism Revisited”, I criticized the underlying philosophical justifications behind Ayn Rand’s epistemological theory and its support for unfettered free-market capitalism. My motivation for this piece came from the recent Congressional battles over support for the $700 billion economic bailout plan, which House Republicans strongly derided on the grounds [...]
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As Al Gore would begrudgingly remind you, there is only one way to the White House and it is through the Electoral College. That is unfortunate news for the McCain-Palin ticket, because recent polls in important battleground states are showing voters move in an Egyptian-style exodus towards the Promised Land of Obama-Biden. Short [...]
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John McCain he has proven he will do whatever it takes to win.
We has one final card in the deck: Declare war against the media.
The Couric interview of Palin is nothing short of amazing. It revealled the logic behind her selection for VP. The Republicans thoguht that since beautiful women sell everything to Americans; they [...]
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Several excerpts from Katie Couric’s interview with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, which will air in full tonight on CBS, have been released on the internet. During the interview, Palin appeared to consistently repeat talking points and express vague generalities without much evidence or justification for her claims. Palin’s flawed preparation was so obvious that [...]
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As many of you already know, John McCain has attempted to cancel/postpone both his first presidential debate with Barack Obama as well as Sarah “Putin Talks To Reporters More Than Me” Palin’s vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden. McCain’s justification for the move, issued during a brief press conference earlier today, was that the United States [...]
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I would like to respond to a recent comment by The Write Wing, posted underneath his article, “A Tale of Two Republicans”. I have decided to write this as a separate article, because I think that this comment, as well as the ideology that it touts, describe one of the most fundamental philosophical divisions of [...]
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Let’s imagine for a moment that John McCain, a 72 year old with a history of lethal skin cancer, wins the election and then dies while in office. Sarah Palin becomes president. We need to start asking the question: what would Palin do (WWPD)?
Due to her limited foreign policy experience, Palin doesn’t have many (if [...]
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While talking points in the media have focused on Sarah Palin’s numerous political gaffes and how Barack Obama is too polite and well spoken to win the presidency, perhaps the most experienced and politically saavy candidate for office has been largely ignored. I am speaking about Senator Joe Biden, who has continually impressed me with [...]
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Well, today we are in for a good one. In this third installment of The Issues at Hand, I would like to focus on something that has remained as unquestioned as hugging your mother – support for our current system of democracy. Perhaps culminating in academia with the article, The End of History, University of [...]
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There is something about gold that attracts people. It became the currency of choice for the Eastern and Western hemispheres before either one knew the other existed. Of course, its attractivness sciews judgement and creates hubris. Governments have always enjoyed hording the stuff.
In the beginning, Roman coinage was worth the amount of gold it had [...]
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“Free Sarah Palin!”
by Anthony Kanigliero on September 30, 2008
in Commentary
With the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin only days away, many Republican pundits have adopted a new theory for the reason Palin has floundered in recent interviews. It isn’t because she is not knowledgeable or ill-equipped to hold executive office, but that the McCain campaign has not let her “be herself” since [...]
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