I have been a subscriber and contributor to JARS since the beginning and now regret to report that I have just read the worst article ever to appear in that journal.

This post is more like a little note that I thought some of you Soloists would find interesting. Note 131 on p. 356 deals with a sentence in the Declaration of Independence.

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In that secretly recorded video of Mitt Romney at his fund-raiser, he stated:

In this post I want to challenge Peikoff’s identification of Plato as Misintegrator and Aristotle as Integrator. I want to suggest that Plato is the Integrator and Aristotle the Disintegrator!

Last weekend I visited Clandon Park.

This post will concern itself with the section in Peikoff’s new book concerning Kant, pp. 32-39. All quotations are from these pages unless otherwise indicated.

DIMwit Part I

I heard this yesterday on BBC radio.

Death to Islam. What a false and evil philosophy. Today is a day of remembrance when it ought to be a day of vengeance. Let the Muslims never forget the mistake they made eleven years ago.

Cross post from Life Behind The IRon Drape.

Only my best posts going up on SOLO.

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A few weeks ago, the Associate Minister of Health issued a press release.

"A familiar cry goes up - 'yes we want more housing, but no to every development - and not in my backyard'.

The BBC broadcast a comedy on Monday, Citizen Khan, the first ever Asian sitcom they've done.

On the weekend I visited the Landscape Gardens of Stowe House in Buckinghamshire.

By chance I happened across "the Temple of British Worthies" built in 1734.

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I once had some free, unsolicited and well-intentioned advice for the Prime Minister published in the Timaru Herald. My advice was to fuck off.

Thank God, eventually she did.

Hi all. Linz will be speaking at the conference below. For bookings and more information see here:
http://www.libertarianz.org.nz/conference-2012/

Liberty Conference 2012 – Towards a True Liberal Bloc in Parliament

‘Not your usual Libertarianz conference’

This is the beginning of THE COMPROMISED HOSTILITIES,a drama about Jay Gould.

Most of you know what iambic pentameter is. If you have comments, make them.

"Judges, like politicians, are happiest when they can avoid confronting the real issues and this judgement is no exception to the rule.

Ayn Rand was a brilliant philosophical innovator. People of low quality who oppose her tend to rather pathetically say that her ideas are both old and false. But this is self-refuting.

Cigarette manufacturers in Australia have just lost a legal appeal to stop their products being sold in plain packaging.

The ultra-rich, who control the majority of our planet's wealth, spend their time at cocktail parties and salons while millions of decent hard-working people starve.

Lie No. 1: Obama has repeatedly claimed his white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, "fought in Patton's army," when he was a clerk with no combat in WWII.

Tip of the hat to the people of London and Great Britain for the wonderful job they seem to have done at the 30th Olympiad. I thought the Games were well-organized and well-run.

I believe that X.

Is my belief that X rational?

A black and white issue!

Romney Up 22 Points Among Whites

The CSIRO has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.