“The Fountainhead” courtroom Speech, Ayn Rand

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Again, I'm not Ayn Rand's biggest fan, but this speech by architect Howard Roark, on trial for having blown up a housing project he designed in New York when another architect changed his design,...

Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History

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This is only an opinion. There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one. But there is enough circumstantial evidence to...

Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can be Granted

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"Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted is a defense to a legal claim." It means that the claimant has failed to present sufficient facts which, if taken as true,...

American Theology Simply Stated, The Transcendence of Liberty

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The Transcendence of Liberty I’ve told this story before, of the time in 1991 I attended a birthday party for a law professor at a university in USSR Ukraine. Around three tables pushed together, in...

L’Etat c’est Moi, the Rise of a Genuine Royal Class in America

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First Bill Clinton, then Obama and now another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics....all premised on that singular comment...

Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)

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  Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...