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• Australia’s Planned Internet Filter is a bad Idea

  
  American Reality — Authority: 128
  The government of Australia has announced plans to install an Internet filter to block websites the government deems to be obscene or linked to crime. According to the government the filter will be used to protect children from child porn, bestiality, and a host of other things the government deems offensive. In ...
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• Doing Nothing Is An Option

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 111
  Remember when President Obama insisted that health care "reform" had to be done his way, and that doing nothing was " not an option "? Well, the American people disagree. In " Do Nothing, Majority Says " ( Wall Street Journal , December 10, 2009), James Taranto notes a recent Fox News poll showing: ...
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• Two New Audio Articles

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 111
  Audio versions of Paul Hsiehs article "How the Freedom to Contract Protects Insurability" and Richard M. Salsmans article "Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis" have been posted to our Audio page . These recordings are accessible for free and can be played directly on our website or downloaded to ...
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• Campus Media Response: Obama repeats Bush’s self-sacrificial sins in Afghanistan

  
  The Undercurrent — Authority: 106
  Is Obama making the same mistakes in war as Bush?The Daily CollegianUniversity of Massachusetts–AmherstDear Editors,Matthew Robare says that President Obama has not delivered “hope” or “change” in foreign policy, as he promised. Robare is correct: Obama has not distinguished himself from Bush on the ...
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• What Fresh Hell Is This? -- Killjoy Thermomaniac Watermelons vs. Babies

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 141
  "Hey, lets limit everyone to one child." Some Canadian watermelon has come up with the latest wild-eyed, power-mad assault on individual liberties in the name of "saving the planet." She actually says that the world needs to copy China . REALLY? OK, its one thing for watermelons to nag and lecture people to ...
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• Shocked?

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 138
  Seven out of every 10 American colleges and universities censor speech with rules that violate the U.S Constitution, according to a new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education...
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• The Intoxicating Effects of Privatization

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 571
  As I blogged about earlier this month over at the Objective Standard, states are beginning to understand the benefits of privatization. Unfortunately, few of them seem to understand the mechanism of why open markets actually financially benefit their state economy and even fewer legislators understand (or at least ...
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• The Winter Issue of TOS

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 111
  The print edition of the Winter issue is at press and will be mailed shortly; the online version will be accessible to subscribers beginning December 20. For promotional purposes, we are making Robert Mayhew’s review of Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right ...
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• If Joe Arpaio Says Your Guilty, That’s Good Enough For Us

  
  Coyote Blog — Authority: 633
  This is kind of scary — shoplifters denied trial by jury.  A judge seems to think its too much of a hassle to do follow that old Sixth Amendment thingie. We’ve gutted the rest of our constitutional protections, why not jury trial too? An Arizona appeals court is set to issue a ruling today about whether people ...
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• The Constitution and YOUR Individual Rights…

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  The Bill of Rights or the first Ten Amendments are the rights prescribed for the individual. With these rights in hand, any common person has the ability legally to defend themselves against anyone or anything up to and including the federal government.
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• Altered States: Reflecting on State Medical Marijuana Laws

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Lesson Plan | Considering issues related to the legalization of medical marijuana in some states.
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• 11 Ayn Rand Quotes

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 435
  More than 50 years ago Ayn Rand - rabid capitalist, best selling novelist and founder of the school of objectivism – said that America was on the verge of communist-style socialism:We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while ...
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• Sanctify This

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 513
  In the “call their bluff” department, a California man is trying to protect the sanctity of marriage — by banning divorce : Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, ...
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  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 490
  
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• The Second Amendment, Bill of Rights and duty to this country

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  stippling engraving of James Madison, Presiden...The Second Amendment is one of the most often debated “individual” right afforded by our founding fathers in the Constitution. Recently it has been under direct attack by those who believe the Constitution is a “fluid” set of “guidelines” and not the ...
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• Whatever Happened to Suzette Kelo?

  
  The Undercurrent — Authority: 106
  What do a wasteland full of weeds, Pfizer, and the Supreme Court have in common? The answer is the power of eminent domain. In the 2005 case of Kelo v. City of New London, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London was allowed to seize Suzette Kelo’s home and give the property [...]
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• Dennis Prager: If There Is No God, Part 13

  
  One Reality — Authority: 115
  (Note: This is Part 13 in the series started here . The previous installment is here . In each post, I comment on one of the fourteen points made by Dennis Prager in his article, “If There Is No God.”) Dennis Prager’s Point # 13: Without God, ...
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• When Schools Brainwash Students: Thought Police on University Campuses

  
  LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH — Authority: 476
  This video illustrates a year-long resident life orientation program at the University of Delaware to teach students that America is a racist, hellish place. This attempt to destroy the freedom of thought is growing at American colleges. Check out this video and then check out FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights ...
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• The Source and Nature of Rights, Part II

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 111
  Part two of Craig Biddle’s six-hour seminar, The Source and Nature of Rights , given at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in October, has been posted to UFM’s website and is accessible for free. In this section, Mr. Biddle begins presenting the principles of Ayn Rand’s ethics that give rise to her theory ...
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• Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System

  
  Principles in Practice — Authority: 111
  Craig Biddle’s talk Capitalism: The Only Moral Social System , given at Universidad Francisco Marroquín on October 28, has been posted to UFM’s website and is accessible for free. Enjoy!
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