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Yom Kippur, the Pope and My Reluctant Secularism
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Sometimes the easiest questions are the hardest ones to answer. Like: What religion are you? I had reason to think about this issue the other day during a routine doctor's appointment at a local London hospital. As we were winding up, the doctor turned to me and asked: "Oh, yes, and what religion are you? It could be relevant to your treatment." He was holding a clipboard and a pen, ready to tick the appropriate box on his chart. I paused, as if he'd asked me the solution to Fermat's Last Theorem. "Umm . . . well . . . I used to be Catholic." I heard myself say. "But my husband's ...
WikiLeaks Mastermind Julian Assange: Evil Genius or Visionary Hacker?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyAs they said about John Galt in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged:" Who is Julian Paul Assange? He is, of course, the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian master hacker at the white-hot center of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and, after revealing thousands of secret Afghan battlefield reports this week, the subject of investigation by U.S. authorities. By now we've heard quite a bit about the Assange mystique and his cutesy-named website. WikiLeaks devotes itself to obtaining and posting secret government documents and information from unidentified sources. With WikiLeaks' heightened ...
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead of Greenspan's Errors
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyThrough their views on the virtues of free markets and individualism, Ayn Rand and the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan will be forever linked as architects of the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression. ...
Atlas Embraced: Why Libertarianism is Back!
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyEver since Barack Obama started seizing companies -- and pushing his pseudo-fascist notion of "national service" -- I've noted some subtle changes bubbling up from deep within the conservative movement. The change is: Who is John Galt?... Perhaps you've noticed the trend, too? Your Facebook page may now list you as "Libertarian" or "classical liberal," instead of "very conservative." If that's the case, you know exactly what I mean. If not, read on... BACK IN THE 1990's -- before anyone knew the names George W. Bush or Barack Obama -- being a young conservative was a lot more fun. It was easy ...
Is President Obama a Socialist?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt is one of the most frequent refrains among critics of our new president. Scrawled in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and followed by a forest of exclamation points, the McCarthy-esque charge populating comment sections of blogs across the internets reads: Barack Obama is a Socialist!!!!!!!Well, the main stream media (such as it its) has not shied away from this debate either. Witness two recent examples. From the National Review, for whom "progressive" is itself a dirty word, comes a cover sure to send shivers down the backs of laissez-fare, Ayn Rand-reading capitalists everywhere. And in today's ...
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