George W. Bush is a radical Posted by Barbara Branden on 10/30/2004, 3:47am
In the Mideast, Bush dared to be different by Daniel Pipes Philadelphia Inquirer October 24, 2004 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2160 http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/9997464.htm The Middle East has so defined the presidency of George W. Bush that historians will, I expect, judge him p...(Read more...)
A blind patient can again see and read and compose e-mail thanks to a fetal tissue transplant. The "problems" - immune rejection and fetus shortage - can be solved by using a fetus cloned from the patient. Bush's ban on cloning research is the only *actual* obstacle to widespread application of this technology. (Read more...)
Rewriting history Posted by Barbara Branden on 10/28/2004, 10:22pm
THE AYN RAND READER is a compilation of excerpts from Rand's fiction and nonfiction writing; it is edited by Leonard Peikoff and Gary Hull. In his Preface, Gary Hull states: "I have, of course, made no changes in AR's own words." Oh? The excerpt "Attila and the Witch Doctor," originally p...(Read more...)
Volume 6, Number 1 of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies has just been published. This issue is the first of two symposia celebrating the Ayn Rand Centenary (which is marked, officially, on 2 February 2005). It is entitled "Ayn Rand: Literary and Cultural Impact," and it features articles from such contributors as Eri...(Read more...)
David Mayer, a frequent contributor to the Objectivist Center, weighs in on the side of voting for Bush. He argues --- at quite length! --- on the grounds of the war on terror and on political incrementalism. (Read more...)
Bush "invoked the names of Democrats Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy by way of accusing Kerry of "taking a narrow, defensive view of the war on terror," then summoned memories of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey to accuse his rival of shortchanging public education."(Read more...)
