Rethinking Selfishness
Please join us on Thursday, October 24th at 7:00pm (Pacific time) for:"Rethinking Selfishness: Ayn Rand's New Conception of Egoism"by Dr. Onkar GhateThis lecture explores what makes Ayn Rand's idea of...
View ArticleBanning Legal Highs Not Core Council Business
“There have been intermittent calls for further government crackdowns on the legal high industry by those involved in local body politics, most recently from the Team Manurewa organisation, who believe...
View ArticleThomas Sowell Agrees with Doug Bandler about the coming Race War
Well he didn't mention me explicitly, but he does reference a race realist blogger by the name of "Paul Kersey" who runs the blog "Stuff Black People Don't LIke" or...
View ArticleThousand Wasted on Public Art
Affordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry today slammed the granting of $46,000 to Warkworth artist Ruby Watson to recreate steel constructions of native birds on poles to be displayed in the Rodney Local...
View ArticleColin Craig Promises Land Grab
“New Zealand’s political village idiot Colin Craig plans to surpass New Zealand First’s vote in the next election by putting forward even more extreme success-hating populist schemes than Winston...
View ArticleTotalitarianism: What If The Enemy Is The State? by Ian Wishart
Published on Oct 25, 2013The story of human history has always been one of power and control.From Alexander the Great through the massive Roman Empire, and even Adolf Hitler's global imperial plans,...
View ArticleExcellent paper on why humans have volition and why consciousness does not...
In my joust some time ago with a determinist (he eventually "chose" to leave this blog in a huff, by a delicious irony), I was reminded of what a tangle of contradictions people who think they are...
View ArticleWhat Motivates Obamacare Supporters?
What Motivates Obamacare Supporters? By Edward HudginsOctober 25, 2013 -- Public policy issues should be discussed first and foremost in terms of their merits. The problem with discussing Obamacare is...
View ArticleHomo Sapiens Progress
Current humans may have emerged physically around 195,000 years ago, but we seemingly emerged mentally only around 30,000 years ago. Evidence for this is seen in the cave paintings of southern Europe,...
View ArticleFarewell All - I must move on
Well my friends, the time has come to say goodbye. When posting some of my nutty racial ideas on some of the open threads I realized that I am not an Objectivist anymore. I don't know what I am. I have...
View ArticleBerry Receives Bill for Leather Satchels
Affordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry has received a response to the Official Information Request he made on October 15 regarding the cost of leather satchels issued to elected members of Auckland’s...
View ArticleStephen Berry Backing Movember
Affordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry announced today that he will be participating in the 2013 Movember fundraising campaign. “Movember is a fantastic cause promoting men’s health and I’m glad to have...
View ArticleBless Us And Keep Us on All Hallow's Eve
[I wrote a version of this short story yesterday evening, and posted it in time for a late Halloween reading. Next morning, I saw I had left my characters stranded, so I wrote a conclusion. Does this...
View ArticleFirst Come First Serve
I offer 15 free downloads of my drama, In Counteraction, Vanderbilt!Micah Goodding does a superior impersonation of Commodore Vanderbilt. His production of my drama is now available on Audible.com. The...
View ArticleUh, Duh ... and the Shocking Truth about Obamacare
Uh, Duh ... and the Shocking Truth about ObamaCareUh: Headline in The New York Times of Thursday, October 31, 2013: “Voters’ Anger Over Shutdown Is Inspiring Democrats to Run.”Duh: Headline in The New...
View ArticleCrackpot Corner! It's JFK Month—Here's One for Moeller! :-)
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View ArticleCato's HumanProgress.org Quantifies Good News
Cato's HumanProgress.org Quantifies Good News By Edward HudginsOctober 31, 2013 -- The Cato Institute has launched a new website, HumanProgress.org, which quantifies the good news that, overall, things...
View ArticleCuccinelli’s Loss and the Libertarian Solution
Cuccinelli’s Loss and the Libertarian Solution By Edward HudginsNovember 5, 2013 — The finger-pointing in the GOP over Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s narrow loss to Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the...
View ArticleThe Dictatorship of "Diversity"
I offer three instructive items of recent news, one from Europe, one from Obamarx's Amerika, the other from New Zealand, eloquent testimony to Western Civilisation's self-immolation at the altar of...
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