 Persuasion II
by Ciro D'Agostino
The persuasion of others is used sometimes to achieve self-assurance. (Read more...)
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Persuasion
by Ciro D'Agostino
What are the reasons for such desire? (Read more...)
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Primacy of Consciousness Redux: A Review of Overman's A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization
by Roger E. Bissell
Dean Overman is the author of yet another attempt to argue that, without some ruling consciousness, there is no logic, no morality, no life, no universe, nothing at all. The antidote? A healthy dose of the metaphysics and logic based on the Primacy of Existence. (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 10, 2005 |
 They Worship Death
by Marcus Bachler
The sad fact is that fundamentalist religious zealots such as Osama bin Laden, while claiming to practice a religion of peace, will not rest until every last country in the world is an Ayatollah-run dictatorship composed of veiled submissive women, violent bearded men and dead infidels. However, the battle to preserve our “love of life” in the West can and must be won, as it was against Communism and Fascism, by not giving an inch to the anti-life ideology that is shrouded by the terrorists’ political demands. (Read more...)
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Fighting the Crab Bucket Mentality
by Matthew Graybosch
If the United States is plagued by the Crab Bucket Mentality, you can be damned sure that syndicated advice columnists are doing nothing to help. You can be just as sure that I am going to call them to account for their irresponsible advice. (Read more...)
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Ask The Question
by Duncan Bayne
How often do you start to discuss an issue with someone, and find yourself going around in circles, with the debate degenerating into an argument, and then into a fight, finally ending without anyone having learned anything? There’s an easy fix for this problem. As soon as you’ve identified the issue at hand and determined the other person’s position, ask The Question. (Read more...)
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Excuse Me For Being A Hypocrite
by William Anthony Bardel
Why are so many men of the mind wasting their time? Why are so many people settling for what the world is? Why do so many people say that we won’t see Atlantis in our lifetime?! (Read more...)
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Daily Linz 3 - Slime on SOLO
by Lindsay Perigo
We see pusballs gatecrashing on SOLOHQ. Their stock-in-trade is ambiguity, uncertainty, “well yes, but ...,” “not necessarily”—verbal clutter and entropy. They slither around in what Ayn Rand would call the “hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.” Under the guise of “critical thinking,” they commit to nothing, and try to cast doubt on everything. (Read more...)
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What is Liberalism?
by Luke J. Morris
Hint: It's not what Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore say it is. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 29, 2005 |
Dewey's Pragmatism and the Decline of Education
by Edward W. Younkins
Dewey and other members of the Progressive movement wanted a predictable method for providing a common culture and of instilling Americans with democratic values. As a result, by the end of the nineteenth century, a centrally controlled, monopolistic, comprehensive, and bureaucratic public education system was deemed to be essential for America’s future. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 27, 2005 |
What We're Up Against: Critique of a Contemporary College Text
by Ed Thompson
This essay serves the specific purpose of arming reasoners against the onslaught of contemporary academia. It highlights major positions taken by academia, and it offers major rebuttals to such positions. In a war for men's minds, one must come to battle with the proper armor. This essay provides it. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 13, 2005 |
Protecting Our Property Protects Our Lives
by Peter Cresswell
New Zealanders who once themselves understood the crucial importance of property rights now seem bemused by their absence, until perhaps they themselves find they can’t build on their own property, can’t cut down their own trees, can’t use their property in ways they always have, or find that control of their property has been passed to someone else ... and that someone carries a clipboard and must be called ‘Sir’ ... and we must pay that person for the privilege of asking them permission to do what we want to on our own land. It’s not right. (Read more...)
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What We Said About Islamo-Fascist Filth
by Lindsay Perigo
On the fourth anniversary of the strike by those who avowedly love death the way Westerners love life, we reprise reactions posted on SOLOHQ ... (Read more...)
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Saturday
September 10, 2005 |
The Big Apple Versus the Big Easy: A Tale of Two Cities
by Michael E. Marotta
The difference between New York City after 9/11 and New Orleans after Katrina is an undeniable contrast between a city that rose to the sky, because its people could not be held to the ground, and a city that wallowed in a swamp, as long as the red beans and rice were as cheap as music and bourbon. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 8, 2005 |
Why Vote Libertarianz?
by Andrew Bates
I gave this speech at the Gay Aucklanders' Business Association (aka Fruits in Suits) Election Special meeting last night. (I have taken a break from writing up my U.S. road tour to campaign for the Libertarianz until September 17th).
If you want your freedom defended, you need a party committed to the principle that you own your life and should be free to live it as you see fit. You need now to shun the voices of compromise and vote for the party prepared to work patiently to change the culture.You need to vote your conscience. You need to vote, and, of course, join, the Libertarianz. (Read more...)
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Legal Snouts
by Peter Cresswell
A polite letter to the New Zealand Law Society explaining why lawyers are held in such high esteem. (Read more...)
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The New Zealand Election - Statism or Selfhood?
by Lindsay Perigo
I’m going to cast my vote for freedom and against Nanny State. I’ll be giving my party vote to Libertarianz and my constituency vote to Libertarianz leader Bernard Darnton in Wellington Central. (Read more...)
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Struthio Camelus Syndrome
by Eric Scott
A frightening epistemological disease is spreading rapidly throughout the world, leaving mankind mentally crippled as a result. (Read more...)
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Please Don't Feed The Trolls
by Adam Reed
The troll's long-term goal is to make converts, but in the short term his goal is to get his marks to consider his crackpottery intellectually respectable. His "proof" of purported intellectual respectability is that rational people consider his crackpottery debatable. The only effective countermeasure is to refuse to be drawn into the troll's project. Please don't feed the trolls. (Read more...)
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Why Intelligent Design Should Be Taught in Schools
by Chris Phoenix
Intelligent design is not, as I thought, a theory that God was involved in the design of organisms. Rather, it is a convoluted and counter-logical attempt to confuse people—not about evolution, but about science and even about civics. (Read more...)
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Drooling Beast
by James Kilbourne
This article is my explanation of what is wrong at SOLO. I am not a medical doctor or a therapist, so I stress: this is just my opinion. It is up to Linz whether he will let it be published. It is my hope that it will at least help people better understand my departure. (Read more...)
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Moral Outrage in Tehran!
by Steven Thomas Druckenmiller
This should not just be titled under a war for men's minds, but an all-out WAR on Islamic filth. (Read more...)
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Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten
by George W. Cordero
In the years that lie ahead of us, the topic of nuclear proliferation by Islamic theocracies will increasingly dominate the news. Voices from all sides of the political spectrum will lend their expert advice on the issue. The loudest voice that you will hear is the ever-present voice of appeasement and pacifism: the voice of the guilt-ridden and self-hating Western nations. (Read more...)
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Rousseau's "General Will" and Well-Ordered Society
by Edward W. Younkins
The idea of the general will is at the heart of Rousseau’s philosophy. The general will is not the will of the majority. Rather, it is the will of the political organism that he sees as an entity with a life of its own. The general will is an additional will, somehow distinct from and other than any individual will or group of individual wills. The general will is, by some means, endowed with goodness and wisdom surpassing the beneficence and wisdom of any person or collection of persons. (Read more...)
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The True-Answer National Lottery: A Free Market Solution to Terror
by Ed Thompson
In the afternoon, the time for showing-off had faded out, and all eyes had turned upward, to the tower where there was found a digital display: 900 ... 901 ... 902 .... All at the field had become silent, in a motionless stare on that slowly-changing number, which represented the payout, in millions, for finding and incapacitating the target—Osama bin Laden. (Read more...)
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