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Consequences: Korea
Posted by Adam Reed on 9/03/2004, 11:49am

George W. Bush's steel tariffs of 2000 did not merely destroy hundreds of steel-using enterprises in the United States and lose hundreds of thousands of American jobs. Bush's steel tariff also destroyed many jobs and enterprises in South Korea, the major supplier of inexpensive high-quality steel to American industry....(Read more...)

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French headscarf ban faces hard test
Posted by Sam Erica on 9/02/2004, 10:01am

Paris — School doors opened for 12 million French children Thursday, but there is far more at stake this year than back-to-school jitters. ...(Read more...)

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Republican Platform: Kiss the Constitution Goodbye
Posted by Adam Reed on 8/31/2004, 3:50pm

The US Republican Party consists of both unprincipled power-seekers, and principled people whose principles come from the imagined whims of their imaginary friend in the sky. Since the former have no principles, the Party Platform, the official statement of the principles by which the party will govern if it wins in No...(Read more...)

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Giuliani Wins for Bush
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/30/2004, 8:34pm

If I'm not mistaken, Rudi Giuliani just won the election for George W. Bush, in his speech to the Republican convention. Blow after blow in favour of going on the offensive against terrorist scum, against European cowardice, against appeasement & accommodation, against Kerry's vacillations & flip-flops, in favour of to...(Read more...)

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Building for Democracy - Frank Lloyd Wright may yet 'build' Baghdad
Posted by Peter Cresswell on 8/29/2004, 7:43pm

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Objectivism in Academia
Posted by Irfan Khawaja on 8/29/2004, 3:42pm

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Calling All Good Men & Women ...
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/27/2004, 5:20pm

... to come to the aid of the party. Or at least to the aid of the editor of The Free Radical, i.e. moi. I'm starting work on Issue 64. I need Horror File items, &, in keeping with FreeRad's increasingly cosmopolitan tone, I need them from all over the world. Just two or three sentences of a nauseating news item, date ...(Read more...)

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British Cleaner Thought Art Was Garbage
Posted by Peter Cresswell on 8/26/2004, 10:00pm

... and she was right. Sadly, a Tate Gallery Spokesman disagreed. (Read more...)

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SOLO Delivers Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/26/2004, 3:38pm

Further to our announcement of new clubs two days ago, here are some more. Just scroll down & look leftward for: 1) SOLO Think Tank. Leonard Peikoff said of philosophies in general that their fundamental principles are immutable, but "new implications, applications, integrations can always be discovered....(Read more...)

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SOLO Delivers More Quickly Than Fedex!!
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/25/2004, 2:59am

SOLOists - I draw your attention to the three new interest groups now listed here (below, left) as per Joe's article about the "to-do" list he & I drew up when he was here in NZ, & follow-up suggestions. Namely: SOLO Food (naturally encompassing wine as well) - hosted by the delectable Jennifer Iannolo. ...(Read more...)

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