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Individualism
"That one word—individualism—is to be the theme song, the goal, the only aim of all my writing. If I have any real mission in life—this is it."
—Ayn Rand
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Regi Says
2/8/10 Neither Here Nor There
In 1945 and again in 1948, my adventurous parents made two long trips exploring the United States, each time starting from a very old city in New England named Peabody. It was originally named Danvers, and included what is now Salem, the one famous for witches. |
Objectivists' War on Christianity
2/8/10 | It is unfortunate that these days almost no one, and no organization, that has assumed the name Objectivist or Objectivism for themselves, either understands or properly represents that philosophy, which was named "Objectivism" by its author, Ayn Rand, whom they also largely misunderstand and misrepresent. |
Regi Says
2/6/10 | It Won't Happen—Regi Sticks His neck Out
Perhaps you've seen the latest dire doomsday predictions: Senators Warned of Terror Attack on U.S. by July, "And one by one, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, CIA Director Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert Mueller all agreed an attack was "certain." |
Permanent File Archive
2/4/10 | Most have probably given up waiting, but I am at long last seriously attacking the job of moving lost files to a permanent home on the Independent Individualist. |
Internet Privacy
1/29/10 | Resources and tools for protecting your privacy on the Internet |
The Invasion of Your Privacy: By Almost Everyone
1/29/10 | Who is watching you? The truth is, you don't know. Everything you do on the Internet, from browsing, to online shopping and banking, to sending and receiving email or participating in online chat is available to anyone with the resources to monitor or capture it. If you are being watched, and you probably are, it is very unlikely you will know it. |
Assaults on Reality and Knowledge
1/28/10 | There are two perennial assaults on human integrity that once again dominate those aspects of human society generally associated with intellectual pursuits, academia and literature. These assaults take many forms but are always directed against the two things necessary to human reason and sanity, reality and knowledge. |
Problems of the Evolutionary Hypothesis
Cass Hewitt—1/4/10 | I do not hold the concept of evolution--Darwinian or otherwise--to be a tenable speculation; this is viewing the debate from a slightly different perspective from those of others who question evolution. |
Terrorism
1/4/10 | It is not the president's or the government's job to keep anyone safe. The purpose of the American form of government was first and only to protect and preserve individual liberty. |
Islamic Maggots--Part 2
12/30/09 | The sudden appearance of maggots in perfectly healthy flesh would be extremely alarming, yet it is just such a phenomena that appears to be happening in Western civilized societies. At least that is the way it is portrayed. |
Islamic Maggots--Part I
12/30/09 | As disgusting as they are, maggots are seldom thought of as a threat the way other kinds of vermin are, such as destructive locusts or disease bearing mosquitoes. As far as I know, there has never been a plague of maggots, or a campaign to wipe out maggot infestations. |
Ayn Rand and Christianity
1/29/10 
While browsing some threads on a popular forum recently, I was introduced to an interesting critique of Ayn Rand's ethics, by John Piper. I already knew the critique was going to be from a Christian perspective, but was pleasantly surprised by it, nevertheless. This is what I wrote to the poster who provided the link to the article: |
About AGW: What No One Has the Courage to Say
1/29/10 Some are beginning to see what I and others have been saying for 25 years, that the entire AGW fraud is just that, a huge scam and a lie. (This scam began to develop in the 1970s.) It is not just global warming that is a lie, the entire environmentalist movement is a lie, and even some of those who understand that still repeat such meaningless bromides as, "I believe in being environmentally responsible," and, "we are stewards of the earth." If you believe any of those things, be a good steward of whatever portion of the earth you have earned the money to buy. You have no claim on or responsibility for any other part of it. |
Fall Of The Republic
Alex Jones—11/2/09 
The controversial nationally syndicated radio broadcaster, Alex Jones, has made his blockbuster video, Fall Of The Republic available free to the public. Regardless of what you think of Alex Jones, this is a "must see" video for everyone. |
Second American Revolution--Part 3
10/28/09 | While some are advocating some kind of armed resistance, and others think a second civil war may be inevitable, even necessary, (having forgotten, perhaps, the horrors of the first, from which the South has never totally recovered), a revolution of striking producers has advantages over force that may not be immediately apparent. |
Second American Revolution--Part 2
11/25/09 | I am not a pacifist, but there is a common view that if you do not agree with that class of people who always see as the first solution to any problem, killing people and destroying things, you are classified as a pacifist anyway. |
Second American Revolution
7/18/09 
Is there a second American Revolution brewing? Perhaps there should be. The following by Jim Robinson, founder and owner of Free Republic is an example of the growing mood and attitude of people in America. |
Pictures of Hate and Happiness
7/8/09 
In my Open Letter to Sarah Palin I tried to explain why so many people seem to hate her, and I think I did. But the extreme kind of hysterical malignity displayed by some toward Mrs. Palin is beyond explanation. |
Open Letter to Sarah Palin
7/5/09 | Please forgive my presumption in writing you, but since no one else seems willing or capable of saying these things, which I think sorely need saying, and since they concern you, and what this country is all about, namely: freedom, individuality, and character, I've taken this liberty and beg your indulgence. |
Houses and Birth Certificates For Sale: At a Little Red and Orange Corner Store
7/3/09 
Where would you go to buy a copy of Barack Hussein Obama's Kenyan birth certificate? |
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A Free Market of Ideas
George Bernard Shaw said: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." It is true, most people are terrified of liberty, petrified they might have to be responsible for their own lives. "The Autonomist," is not for them.
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Confessions of a Conservative
Burt Prelutsky—2/8/10  I have a confession to make. For the past year or so, I have belonged to a secret organization. It was a group of Hollywood-based conservatives. I have no doubt that you're aware of the higher-profile members, mainly actors. And while I can empathize with those lesser-known members, the behind-the-camera people who worry that their livelihoods could be jeopardized if their employers and potential employers got wind of the fact that they aren't left-wing dingbats, I finally decided to quit. |
``Big Daddy`` Obama and the American Police State
J. D. Longstreet—2/8/10  We're encased in what some are calling an electronic concentration camp. The government continues to amass data files on more and more Americans. Everywhere we go, we are watched: at the banks, at the grocery store, at the mall, crossing the street. |
I Prefer Local to Global
Alan Caruba—2/8/10  Perhaps it is just the product of the times in which I grew up and my experience with the events of the world. Or perhaps it is the spin that has been added to the word "global", endowing it with an almost spiritual quality. |
American First, Last, and Always!
J. D. Longstreet—2/8/10 | My allegiance is to America. I don't give a rat's behind what the remainder of the countries on this globe do. It is none of my concern--right up to the point they insist on making trouble for America. |
WMDS In Your BVDs
Burt Prelutsky—2/5/10 | Liberals like to lay the blame for Islamic terrorism on one of two causes; namely, the poverty in most Muslim nations or American foreign policy. Sometimes, just for variety, they'll mention both items. And, as usual, they're dead wrong on both counts. |
Crazy Nancy, Cunning Barack
Alan Caruba—2/5/10 | When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce "greenhouse gas emissions" in accordance with the failed UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference goals, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, issued yet another utterly crazed statement on January 29th. |
My Latest Suggested Reading List
Chuck Baldwin—2/5/10  I remember one of my college professors saying, "A man is the sum total of the people he associates with and the books he reads. Choose both wisely." That proverb has stayed with me all these years. So, on that note, here is my suggested reading list for 2010. |
Partisanship Is 100% American!
J. D. Longstreet—2/5/10 | I have come to believe there is now, and there has been for some time, a deliberate effort to keep you and the generations that follow completely ignorant as to your constitutional rights -- and even more important, how your government was designed, by the Founders of this country, to work. |
IQ: An Apostate`s View
Fred Reed—2/4/10  A few years ago I encountered on the web groups of people, usually very smart people, who called themselves Race Realists and IQists, and regarded IQ as a scientifically valid concept. Fine, I thought. Some people are clearly smarter than others, and so are some groups. You could measure height, so why not intelligence? |
It`s not over! It`s not over! It`s not over!
Tom DeWeese—2/4/10  The headline in today's Washington Times read: "Democrats shelve health care overhaul." Do not believe this from Pelosi and company. It is an effort to make you leave the battlefield. |
Should God Apologize To Sodom And Gomorrah?
J. D. Longstreet—2/4/10 | Homosexuality is simply incompatible with the principles of military services, which include a focus on the mission, service, discipline, bodily integrity, and control over one's impulses. Homosexuality does not appropriately reflect these principles. |
From Galileo to Gore
Burt Prelutsky—2/3/10 | It was almost 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei was denounced as a heretic for proclaiming that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around. These days, Al Gore tells giant fibs about the weather in order to line his pockets and inflate his ego and it's those who call him on it who are accused of heresy. In spite of which, there are people who insist on referring to this as an enlightened age. |
Chill Hits Wind Power
Dennis T. Avery—2/3/10  CHURCHVILLE, VA-As I write, a strong wind is blowing across the Alleghany Mountains onto my house. It's bringing an "Arctic Clipper" that will drop my temperatures this weekend to a frigid and unusual 6 degrees F. Why can't I get some good from this chill wind-with a wind turbine to harvest the "free" energy? |
Conservatives and Progressives. Huge Difference!
J. D. Longstreet—2/3/10 | The difference between Conservatives and Progressives, er liberals, er, socialists... (Whatever!)... is now more obvious than ever before -- especially now that Americans have seen the Progressives in action. |
Not So Famous Last Words
Michael R. Shannon—2/2/10  I've always wondered why Sorenson risks damaging its reputation by associating with a disreputable character such as myself, but after looking at the my day's agenda, I suspect I'm comic relief brought in to liven up the proceedings after a few hours of lectures on campaign finance and ethics. |
The Great Green Land Grab
Alan Caruba—2/2/10 | All across America, various environmental organizations have been engaged in schemes to deter development such as housing, new energy plants, or the horror of a manufacturing facility that might actually employ people. In some states, the attack has been on farms and ranches, finding ways to punish their owners for improving their land in any fashion such as digging a drainage ditch. |
Obama: ``I`m from the government, and I am here to help you!``
J. D. Longstreet—2/2/10 | The Obama Regime has set it sites on America's Middle Class. And it has scared the bejesus out of them! You can almost hear the cries emanating from the Middle Class... "Please, Mr. President, STOP helping us!!!" |
The Sorry State of the Union
Burt Prelutsky—2/1/10 | I watched the State of the Union address and all I could think of was how lucky I was that I had never been elected to Congress. I lost count of how many times during the interminable hour and a half, I would have been shouting out, "You lie," "Go back where you came from" and the rhetorical "Just how stupid do you think we are?" |
A Rudderless Ship Of State
Chuck Baldwin—2/1/10 | In Patrick Henry's immortal "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" speech, he said, "[I]t is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth." Never have Henry's words been truer than they are today. |
The Failed Presidency of B. H. Obama
J. D. Longstreet—2/1/10 | A conservative friend, early on in the presidential campaign of Obama, informed me that the man was an empty suit. There was no "THERE" there, my friend insisted. I was assured Obama was, and is, running a con game on the American people. |
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