Catching up today on everybody's posts I noticed we have had a few of the new folk post whole articles from other sites as posts onto our own site. This practice violates the content owner's copyright, even if you provide a link back to the site you got the content from.

They have posted the video from the talk I attended in DC on Oct 22nd.

So much for Obama's diplomacy.

From the WSJ

A proposal by more then 100 University administrators to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 has created a firestorm among all the usual suspects, notes SOLO spokesman William Green.

While I will be the first in line to purchase my legal handgun in Baltimore, the Heller case is no cause for cheering.

After a several-year self-imposed moratorium on the reading of Fiction, I took the advice of James Valliant and ordered 'The Bot Story' and 'The Seven Isles of Ameulas'.

I thought this was a parody at first. From TFA:

I'm at the Microsoft TechEd conference this week in Orlando.

Just a quick note (at Linz's insistence) to show off my new profile picture.

From the NYT - 'Michael Kinsley, writing in Time magazine last fall, predicted that voters with libertarian leanings are going to be “an increasingly powerful force in politics.”

In his Sixth podcast Dr. Peikoff answered a question regarding his opinion of "Objectivist clubs and advocacy groups on the Internet" (8:35 in) and if these sites are effective and rational ways of spreading Ayn Rand's ideas. His answer may surprise you.

What happened to principles and issues in Republican primary politics?

I have been to the surgeons and the mask has been taken off. Now for the post-op bionic face!

Much to my dismay ChatBox has been brought back. I think this is just to motivate me to get a real chat solution up. So check it out on the left bar below the FreeRad.

Barack Obama gave a speech in a church, asserting that through his campaign we can, "create God's kingdom on Earth." Is this the man to protect us from the coming theocracy?

From our friends at The Objective Standard: Exploit the Earth or die.

Spent the day touring London with Kenny. I'm exhausted so more details after a jet lag nap, but you can take a look at the photos until then.

Mr Green's London Photo Album

Today Americans live in a culture where to be insulted is roughly equivalent to being assaulted. Provocative or unpopular speech has always received moral condemnation from the Political Correctness Police (PCP) but since Imus there has been blood in the water and an increasingly disturbing trend has developed.

"France will not abandon the women who are condemned to the
burqa"

President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy's first speech to the French nation
concluded with a wonderful endorsement of human rights. (Video
here.)

From the Scotsman "AN EXPERT on primates is to tell a court that apes are people, in a groundbreaking case that will determine whether a chimp can have human rights.

"There have been no major problems [at May Day in Cuba] other than the continuing economic difficulties that of course Cuba faces because of the US embargo, the economic embargo." -- Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC

Perfection is rare in the performing arts. This is why an amateur musician like myself seeks out performers whose performances leave us speechless. Several weeks ago I attended a great performance by the Canadian Brass. The French Horn player was both talented and handsome with a musical and stylistic range that was truly inspiring.

Rather then try to write one large article (which I just don't have the time to do right now) I decided to break up my promised global warming thoughts in serial form. So here is the first, hopefully of many, posts on the most dangerous religious movement in modern times -- environmentalism and it's Gospel global warming.

“No Substitute for Victory”: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism

Who: Dr. John Lewis, historian at Ashland University

What: A talk on how we can and why we must defeat Totalitarian Islam—first and foremost by destroying the current regime in Iran

In case you think her blatant call for seizing legally generated and already taxed property was a mere slip of the tongue, she even repeats it in her campaign flier.

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been quoting a lot of Rand lately.

The stars finally aligned and I was able to listen to Linz's radio program the last two days.

Pelosi's Minimum Wage Flip-Flop is a great opportunity to point out the true consequences of minimum wage laws. Even the representatives from American Samoa have voiced their concerns. "The governor of American Samoa, Togiola Tulafono, stated that increasing the minimum wage 'would kill the economy,' and the Samoan congressional delegate, Eni Faleomavaega, said that it would devastate the local tuna industry." But worry not, after the jobs leave for cheaper labor on nearby islands, the federal government will gladly add more Samoans to the welfare rolls.

From TownHall.com

NOW SIT, INGVAR

Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene -- avoiding the splash factor -- but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English magazine The Spectator, "more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women."