“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,...

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...

The Doctrine of Liberty, The Original Republican Brand, Who Owns It?

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I claim primacy for the GOP that is the older of the two, as well as the one that claims the greater chance of actually growing in size

The Death of Captain Waskow, by Ernie Pyle

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Probably Ernie Pyle's best known piece, I've included here a copy of Captain Waskow's last letter home. Two hankies, gentlemen.   At the Front Lines in Italy, January 10th, 1944 . . . In this war I have...

Can a Sane Society Elect a Demented Man for President?

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Thankfully, we only have to think about this sort of thing for three more days, for however the courts decide how it will end, our parts in it will be done; our minds made...

The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells

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  In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...