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Friday
June 11, 2004
HeroesThe Free Radical
The Reagan Legacy
by Alan Greenspan
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The Reagan presidency was a remarkable one for Americans. In the words of the nation's fortieth President, "We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed the world." (Read more...)
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Sunday
June 6, 2004
Heroes
A Salute to Ronald Reagan
by Lindsay Perigo
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Farewell, Mr. President - hero, legend. And thank you. You ushered in a new morning for America. You destroyed the "evil empire." You showed us the best of times, bewitching us with your fabulous sense of life. You gave us grace & style, courage & dignity, wit & wisdom. You restored the shine to that city on the hill. As you remarked yourself on leaving office, "Not bad. Not bad at all." (Read more...)
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Saturday
June 5, 2004
Heroes
RIP, President Reagan
by Tibor R. Machan
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It is sad that we probably will not see a principled guy in - or even near - the White House like Ronald Reagan. Whatever his imperfections, he was the greatest political friend of liberty of our time. (Read more...)
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Monday
May 10, 2004
HeroesThe Free Radical
Magnificent Machan
by Lindsay Perigo
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"The Passion for Liberty" is at once a commendable starting point for novice freedom-fighters and a battery-recharger for veterans. Machan lays out the theoretical groundwork — an unabashedly Aristotelian/Randian one — for a free society in language that is accessible and with logic that is irresistible. (Read more...)
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Friday
March 12, 2004
Heroes
In Praise of Mel Gibson
by Reginald Firehammer
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 Mel Gibson is a hero. I do not mean he is my hero, or a hero to any particular group, but symbolically, he is an American hero. There is another symbolic American hero named Howard Roark, who, though a fictional character, is the same kind of hero as Mel Gibson. (Read more...)
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Monday
January 26, 2004
Heroes
Johann Strauss - Honorary SOLOist!
by Lindsay Perigo
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"An evocative bow at almost a fairy-tale Vienna, a Vienna of young hussars & beautiful ladies, a Vienna of sentimentality & charm. A pretty-pretty & never-never Vienna of dance & romance." (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 31, 2003
Heroes
AR--Ayn Rand: Audacious Revolutionary!
by Lindsay Perigo
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Since I'm still in seasonally nostalgic mode, let me reminisce about the day Ayn Rand died, twenty-one years ago. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
July 22, 2003
Heroes
Martha Stewart
by Ashley Frazier
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Martha Stewart is one of the great American success stories. (Read more...)
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Monday
July 21, 2003
Heroes
Nelson Mandela: The world celebrates an African Hero
by Betty Kayton
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As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 85th birthday, I am struck by the many faces of this political icon and champion of the African people. Elizabeth Kanabe (Read more...)
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Thursday
June 26, 2003
Heroes
Good Night David Brinkley
by Tibor R. Machan
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Many moons ago, when he was still with NBC-TV, I wrote to David Brinkley and we got into a brief correspondence about journalistic objectivity. He was against it. Well, actually, he just didn't think it could be achieved, however hard anyone might try. (Read more...)
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Thursday
August 1, 2002
HeroesThe Free Radical
"The Don" is gone
by Robert Winefield
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More than just a batsman, he was something like a tide
More than just one man, he was the whole damn side
They always came for Bradman because fortune used to hide
In the palm of his hand
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Friday
July 19, 2002
HeroesThe Free Radical
Hero: Walt Disney
by Craig Ceely
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Walt Disney had been drawing and selling cartoons since he was seven years old. (Read more...)
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Monday
July 8, 2002
HeroesThe Free Radical
Heroes: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
by Craig Ceely
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Two lawyers - both future Presidents - argued for American independence from Britain well before many of their contemporaries did. (Read more...)
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Thursday
June 27, 2002
HeroesThe Free Radical
All On Fire
by Jeff Landauer
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William Lloyd Garrison was a radical abolitionist. He was radical because of his stance that the words in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal," apply to everyone, and he was radical because of the way he defended that stance -- upon moral grounds without regard to the vested interests or sensibilities of others. (Read more...)
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Monday
April 22, 2002
HeroesThe Free Radical
Lux Ex Nihilo
by David C. Adams
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Frederick Hart championed what is so viciously scorned today: form, meaning, and an exalted view of man — and offered it to a public starved for such values. His is now the most popular contemporary sculpture in the country, as thousands are moved by what a man pulled to life from stone. Fighting against a tyranny of ugliness and destruction, Frederick Hart created beauty, and won. (Read more...)
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