Please join us on Thursday, October 24th at 7:00pm (Pacific time) for:

"Rethinking Selfishness: Ayn Rand's New Conception of Egoism"

by Dr. Onkar Ghate

This lecture explores what makes Ayn Rand's idea of self-interest distinctive. Dr. Ghate explains why selfishness has served him as a source of unconventional but inspiring moral guidance.

Lindsay Perigo’s idea of replacing the concept of selfishness with selffulness, or something similar, is a bright light of forward thinking in a rather conformist Objectivist culture that often treats Ayn Rand as the living God.

Spoiler alert: One or two parts of this review give away parts of the plot.

http://www.rushmovie.com/

This is probably wasted at this site but I'll post anyway. Here are a bunch of links to excellent information on the subjects of race and IQ.

THIS Objectivist wants to take off his hat and salute the heroic actions of conservative Ted Cruz.

According to open immigration Objectivists such as Craig Biddle, Harry Binswanger and Diana Hsieh, a person should be free to emigrate from country A to country B as long as he doesn't have a criminal

I wonder if, watching the clamorous melodrama in the United States Congress over the budget and the debt, the American public and world could miss the sound track--the theme song--playing in the background? Both sides of the clash were loudly playing the same theme song, but singing different words. Don't try to decipher the words, listen to the music.

Who Owns You? You Or The Government?

October 11 -2013 -- "In the United States, the people are supposed to be in charge of the government. What do you think is happening today?" This recent national poll question yielded some surprising results. Listen in as Will and Ed discuss some of the ramifications and join the conversation by leaving a comment below.

“Elections have barely passed the stroke of midnight and already the Council machine has begun sending the baubles of office, by courier, out to new members of Auckland’s local boards,” reveals Afford

Affordable City Leader Stephen Berry today said, “I’m extraordinarily proud of the results the eleven candidates of our nationwide local body political party have achieved.

Not sure where to post this as it's a television show rather than a film (although a "spin off" from the Marvel Avengers films).

NB - Spoilers coming...

Affordable Auckland Mayoral candidate Stephen Berry today thanked Auckland for the significant support he had enjoyed in the recent local body elections.

Here is an unassailable reminder of the objective superiority of Romantic Music ... and of Western Civilisation. Nothing more need be said:

Everywhere on the planet today health care is considered to be a "right".

There seem to be two main illegitimate ways of winning an argument.

Government Shutdown Lesson: Privatize National Monuments!

Since I recorded this some days ago, Obama’s Park Service has reinforced barriers at the World War II memorial to keep veterans and the public out.

http://www.peikoff.com/2013/10...

Franklin sees money increasing from the producer's cause whereas Maynard Keynes and his followers see wealth increasing from wasteful consumption, as if wealth can arise from waste.

Lest I be misunderstood let me start off by saying that I think gratuitous rudeness is obnoxious and wrong. Of course, this is a very uncontroversial sentiment even outside Objectivist circles.

1983 Wimbledon finalist and SOLO reader Chris Lewis is famous again. The California-based coach's comments on what has led to America's loss of tennis dominance—top-heavy bureaucracy and an ethos of conformism and anti-individualism—have gone viral:

http://www.tennisconsult.com/d...

This guy really is a bush pig. Not bush as in Bush. Bush as in native, dirt-worshipping, fried chicken and nuggets flown into the White House. 100 million dollar holidays feral retard.

Let me call your attention to a novel by Vinay Kolhatkar, a young Objectivist novelist now living in Australia, who has written a first novel in the Romantic tradition.

Drilling Down Into The Fracking Debate
By Edward Hudgins And William R Thomas

The Objective Standard was once something of the house organ of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Yes, Sen. Harkin, It’s a Civil War!
By Edward Hudgins

September 27, 2013 – Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, in a speech about raising the debt ceiling, said, “We are at one of the most dangerous points in our history right now. Every bit as dangerous as the break-up of the Union before the Civil War.”

On this point, he is absolutely right! But it is Harkin and his ilk, led by President Obama, who are tearing apart the Republic.

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 enlightened western notions of rights and justice just the same?

http://www.interfax-religion.c...

I say no.

Even if Assad did use chemical weapons, how is that any different to killing people with a gun a bomb or a flamethrower?