A new poem...

X-Rated

XX, OO, and then you're gone,
As ever on the run; but I
Am like that ever-earnest John--
Incomprehensibly alive,
Entrenched where dead and quick now lie--

Global Warming and Reckless Precaution
By Edward Hudgins

The soon-to-be released Fifth United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report will admit that computer predictions for global warming and the effects of carbon emissions contained in previous reports were much too high.

http://www.financialsense.com/...

This is the first poem in my first book of poetry, "Touched By Its Rays."

To Ethan

It is my role, surely, ever has been,
To dry the tears, to say the pain will pass:

The US can't name Islam as being her enemy because if she did it would trigger WWIII.

From Romantic Revolution Books, this evening...

My New York After 9/11

Busy in my own small city,
My happy fraction of this place
Improbable and real, I pause

Individual pleasure, flourishing, greatness, and happiness seems to depend upon comprehending and utilizing: 1) abstract and general philosophy; 2) practical and personal philosophy; 3) social and per

Complications

Come praise Apollo bright,
Who prickled a thick brow,
Briefly as lambent light:

Sufficient though to cause
A remorseless shuffling
Across dry plains to pause;

Well, this site is for "Sense of Life Objectivists," so let me share my sense of life, with the poem that is the prelude to my first poetry book, "Touched By Its Rays." You need a little context.

RFK Jr.’s Racial Honesty—and Betrayal
By Edward Hudgins

September 13, 2013—The New York Post has obtained a copy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal diary and published excerpts, much to the chagrin of this scion of the country’s most storied liberal Democrat family.

for you to read at your leisure...

Complications

Come praise Apollo bright,
Who prickled a thick brow,
Briefly as lambent light:

Sufficient though to cause
A remorseless shuffling

Weiner’s Insatiable Lust: For Power!
By Edward Hudgins

September 12, 2013 — To no one’s surprise Anthony Weiner lost in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary. But just before his defeat he was a guest on liberal Lawrence O’Donnell’s TV talk show and the interview—a cage match, really—was as revealing about Weiner’s lusts as were the sexting pictures he sent to random bimbos.

Well, maybe not everyone.

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.

I do not intend to be any kind of conduit for the opinions of others--and will not.

A friend of mine, born in Iran but brought up in the United States, attending a U.S.

A few hours ago, Pres. Obama said: "America is not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe, and it is beyond our means to right every wrong.

I feel at risk of over-posting, but if I don't post this, now, it must wait a year.

September 11 and the Need for Enlightenment
By Edward Hudgins

September 10, 2013 — Twelve years after the attacks on America by Islamist mass murderers, mass murder proceeds apace in the Muslim Middle East. Unfortunately, the real nature of the bloodshed still eludes many American policymakers and the public as well.

Truth through jest.

NEXT WEEK IS THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JAMES JEROME HILL, the great Nineteenth-Century entrepreneur and exemplar of laissez faire capitalism.

For any who might be interested, I am posting the link to the free video on my presentation this summer at Atlas Summit 2013.

There is an interesting new book by Kenneth M. Pollack, a former CIA analyst and Brookings scholar, entitled, "Unthinkable."

I converted to Objectivism when I was about 18 1/4. Took me less than a day.

NZer Gareth Morgan has come out in praise of life in North Korea, having toured parts of it on motorcycle by special permission of the DPRK.

From Romantic Revolution Books, this evening...

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Internationally Known Philosopher Leaves Legacy of Scholarship on Aristotle and Ayn Rand

IRVINE, Calif.—It is with great sorrow that the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship and the Ayn Rand Institute announce the death of American philosopher Allan Stanley Gotthelf, in Philadelphia, on August 30, 2013, after an extended battle with cancer. He was 70 years old.

There was a thread, sadly no longer with us, at http://www.solopassion.com/node/9773 which may return or may stay gone.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....

Our ever-reliable ally, Israel, is urging President Obama to attack Syria. Or so says this article in the Huff post. It makes sense; Israel and the American-Israeli lobby want all our foreign policy to be in the national self-interest--of Israel.