On Sacrificing Selfishness
Two years ago in his blogpost "The Virtue of Selffulness" (http://www.solopassion.com/nod...), Lindsay Perigo advocated for Objectivists to abandon the fight to (re-)establish Ayn Rand's correct(ed)...
View ArticleIs The 'Right To Life' Right?
[Also posted at pc.blogspot.com]Prompted by and in response to looming developments in the US on the abortion rights issue, in this article I attempt to expand on Ayn Rand's theory of rights as they...
View ArticlePutting Anarchists On The Spot
Anarchists who identify themselves as agreeing with Objectivism's fundamentals but not its politics mistakenly think that they have a rock-solid argument for why the state must necessarily aggress,...
View Article"Morally Perfect" vs "Perfectly Moral"
In the last few weeks I've been twice asked whether I consider myself to be "morally perfect" or the like because I have expressed moral judgment concerning others and their behavior here on SOLO. In...
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Thwarting The Islamo-fascistic Thuggernaut
The US can't name Islam as being her enemy because if she did it would trigger WWIII. With the UN firmly not on her side in the battle, the strategy being employed by the US at present to deal to those...
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Why The "slam" Cannot Be Removed From "Islam"
Christendom once upon a time exhibited barbarous totalitarian tendencies of its own, so why can't Islam have its own Enlightenment and become depoliticized, tempered and made compatible with...
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Islamofascism And The Age Of Treason
"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or...
View Article"Submission Complete" At Harvard: Quranic Teachings Promoted As Epitome Of...
Earlier this year the US' pre-eminent school of law posted a verse of the Qur'an at the entrance of its law faculty.The verse reads:“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses To...
View ArticleProto-Objectivist Musings From The 2nd Century AD?
Having just finished reading Marcus Aurelius'Meditations, I wanted to share some quotes. Of course, not everything he wrote cut the mustard (he was a Stoic, after all), but these gems certainly do:If...
View ArticleWhy IS *is* an IS
Have a listen again to what Barack Obama had to say on Wednesday in his address that outlined his strategy to deal with the threat that was originally "The Organization of Monotheism and Jihad", which...
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Lindsay's Eloquent Elocution Lessons...Ra Ra Ra Ra...
The title of this post is something Lindsay Perigo would have me repeat. Many times.For the past couple of months I have been taking weekly elocution lessons with Lindsay via Skype. I cannot speak...
View ArticleIt's Proper-ty To Socialists, Propert-y To Capitalists
In this article I shall attempt to highlight what I see as a perversion concerning the historical meaning and morphology of the word property as published by etymological dictionaries, and to...
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The Night Beethoven Made Me Cry
I am not one to profit from the misfortunes of others. Saturday night I made an exception, filling the seat for PC at pianist Freddy Kempf's last NZ performance because he most regrettably could not...
View ArticleA Correct Reading of Original Sin
The original text of the Bible was written without punctuation, without capitals, without a future tense. Biblical Hebrew required one to apply reason to the text in order to derive meanings that made...
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