Letters to the Editor

 

He's No Rand Disciple

Supporters of Smoking Bans Are Ignoring a Crucial Danger

Britain Should Start "Easing" Government Stranglehold on the Economy

No Copyright Exceptions

Government Found Guilty of Assaulting the Economy

Free Market Policies Needed to Solve the Crisis

Protect Citizens

Abolishing the Housing Welfare-regulatory Apparatus

Repeal the Endangered Species Act

Taking Trans Fats off the Menu

Let Mergers Take Place

The Right to Sell and Use "Medical" Marijuana

Taxpayers Shouldn't Be Forced to Subsidize Farmers

Minimum Wage Violates Rights

Looking for Allies

No Bailouts for Borrowers or Lenders

Colombia Doesn't Need a Free-trade Agreement to Get Rid of its Self-destructive Tariffs

Is It Fair to Charge More for Better Service?

McCain-Feingold Violates Right to Free Speech

Exxon vs. Chavez

Tax Credits for Education

Supreme Court Rejects Right to Life of the Terminally Ill

Concern for Whales Should Not Stop Navy from Using Sonar

DDT Foes Disregard Human Life

The Price of Labor

"Net Neutrality" Has No Place in a Free Market

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

Environmentalist Ideologues to Blame for Malaria Deaths

FCC Should Eliminate All Restrictions on Media Concentration

Rent Control Has No Place in a Free Society

No Right to Health Care at Other People's Expense

No Bailouts for Homeowners or Lenders

To Improve Students Education, Set Their Parents Free

Poverty Causes Terrorism?

HillaryCare 2.0: More of the Poison that Is Killing Our Healthcare System

Don't Violate Verizon's Right to Free Speech

Bush Gets Rights Wrong at UN Speech

Caps on Fossil Fuels Would Be Devastating

To Fix American Healthcare, Get the Government Out of It

Goal of Bailout Plans is Unjust, Not Admirable

Not Attacking Iran Would Be Catastrophic

The Foiled Terror Plots in Germany and Denmark

Do Not Ban TV Ads for Toys

Don't Forbid Fast Food

National Service Is a Recipe for Destroying the American Republic

Democracy Is Opposed to Freedom

Immoral Rules of Engagement

Socialized Medicine Kills

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Experimental Drugs

In Defense of Industrial Civilization

Government Should Not Interfere with Whole Foods' Acquisition of Wild Oats

The Right to Produce and Consume "Medical" Marijuana

Court Rejects Right to Life of the Terminally Ill

An Illegitimate Standard of "Legitimacy"

Attack on Iran Consistent with Ayn Rand's Philosophy

Taxpayers Have NO Obligation to Provide Health Coverage for Uninsured Children

Walter Reed Shows Danger of Government-Run Health Care

Building Restrictions Violate Property Rights

Terrorists are Motivated by their Religious Ideology

Attacking Iran Is Not an "Act of Madness"

"Borlaug's Revolution"

Islamists Are Motivated by Their Beliefs

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Ethical

Atlas Shrugged and the Pyramid of Ability

The Unjust Imprisonment of Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Reason Needs No Supplement

The Oil Price Trajectory

Sword of Damocles

Smoking Ban vs. Property Rights

Blame Environmentalism for Malaria Deaths

Bush Should Protect American Assets in Venezuela

End Rent Control

Radicals for Capitalism

Keep the Lights On

The True Nature and Purpose of Capitalism

Manufacturers Should Be Free to Set Their Pricing Policies

Government Has No Business Banning Plastic Bags

Lenders Are Damned If They Lend--and Damned If They Don't

Sanctions Against Iran Won't Work

Creeping Theocracy

FCC Has No Right to Block the Merger of Sirius and XM Satellite Radio

No Right to Health Care at the Expense of Others

Judge Atlas Shrugged for Yourself

No Right to Cheap Car Rentals

"Net Neutrality" Has No Place in a Free Market

"Racial Balance" Programs Are Racist

Wal-Mart Has a Right to Set Up Shop Anywhere in America

Legalize Trade in Human Organs

New York Has No Right to Ban Trans Fats

Allow Organ Sales

Airport Security Won't Give Us National Security

Our Carry-On Luggage Is Not the Real Problem

NO Restraint Against Islamic Totalitarians

Israel Should Escalate War Against Hezbollah

Oil Companies Should Not Apologize for Their Record Profits

World Leaders Should Support Israel's Offensive

Lebanon's Government Has No Legitimacy

Bush's Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research Is Anti-Life

There Is No Need for an Endless Global Conflict

Israel Should Wage a Real War

Israel Should Wage War on Palestinians

No Incentives for Iran

France vs. Apple's Rights

Israel Should Not Apologize for Targeting Terrorists

Minimum Wage Should Be Repealed

Yes to Drilling in ANWR

"Price Gouging" Can't Be Objectively Defined--and Should Not Be a Crime

Hussein Deserves No Regular Trial

How Oil Companies Use Their Profits Is Their Own Business

There Is No Such thing as Price Gouging by Private Oil Companies

U.S. Should Urge Israel to Eradicate the Threat from the Palestinians

Israel Must Commit to Victory Over the Palestinians

Exxon Chairman Deserves Huge Retirement Package

U.S. Is Right To Cut Aid To Palestinian Government

Oprah Is Right to Reject Unearned Guilt

South Park and the Muhammad Cartoons

Mob Rule Wins in France

Borders' Capitulation is a Victory for Islamic Totalitarians

France's Proposed New Labor Legislation Illustrates Why Appeasement Doesn't Work

UN Security Council Abets Iran's Nuclear Program

Scientists Shouldn't Waste Time on Medical Prayer Studies

Canada is Right to Suspend All Assistance to the Palestinian Authority

NYU Chooses Appeasement Over Rights

Bush's Pursuit of Democracy Can't Bring Freedom to Anyone

Vital Organs

Wal-Mart Should Not Be Barred from the Banking Business

The French Riots and Rights

Indecency Fines Against CBS Are an Ominous Attack on Free Speech

To the Producer of Friday's "FOX 11 Ten O'Clock News" and the Station Management:

In Defense of My Right to Free Speech

The Cartoon Riots

Western Nations Should Not Tolerate Calls for the Murder of Their Citizens

Muhammad Cartoons

Free Speech vs. Religious Dogma

Abramoff Scandal

Spreading Democracy in the Middle East Is Suicidal

State Department vs. Free Speech

End the Jihad Against Free Speech

Do Not Apologize for Cartoons of Mohammad

BB&T Right Not to Lend to Eminent Domain Developers

Smoking Ban on Private Property Violates Rights

Palestinians' Vote Will Not Bring Them Freedom

Eliminate the Iranian Threat

End the SEC's Destructive Campaign for Disclosure

US Should Not Count On UN To Stop Iran

Supreme Court Right to Uphold Assisted Suicide Law

Maryland Lawmakers vs. Wal-Mart

Stop the Negotiations with Iran and Start the Military Campaign

Ayn Rand's Ideas Are Priceless

Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Withdraw or Stay the Course in Iraq? Neither.

Ayn Rand Stood for Reason and a Government to Protect Individual Rights

Oil Companies Have a Right to Their Profits

The Right to Leave the Transplant List

Roche's Patent on Tamiflu Should be Respected

UN Should Not Control the Internet

Dissolve the United Nations

U.S. Should Eliminate All Barriers to Free Trade

War on Terrorism Has Yet to Be Waged

No Apologies for Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What Government Should Do to Bring Down Gas Prices

Repeal the Death Tax

U.S. Must Stop Iran from Developing Nuclear Weapons

G8 Aids Terrorism

From the Camel's Mouth

No Apology to Indians

Senators Were Right To Reject Limits on Carbon Dioxide Emissions

"Public" Use vs. Property Rights

Supreme Court Deals a New Blow to Property Rights

U.S. Should Welcome Cuban Escapees

Supreme Court vs. The Right to Grow and Consume Marijuana

Oriana Fallaci and Freedom of Speech

U.S. Should Support Taiwan's Independence

Drilling in ANWR

Kick the U.N. out of New York

A Secular Christmas

Moral Courage Needed to Win the War

The Danger of Religious Fundamentalism

Good Riddance Arafat!

Nothing Wrong with Selfishness

The Inventors Were Great, But They Weren't 'Selfless'

Veterans Day

Arafat Deserves Execution Not Natural Death

Privatize Space Exploration

What Government Can Do to Reduce Gasoline Prices

Whales vs. Humans

Laws Against Price Gouging Immoral

The Evil of Socialized Medicine

"Rathergate" Is a Failure of Journalistic Objectivity

Our Irrational Enemies and their Sympathizers

An Individual's Income Is 100% His Private Property

Do Not to Negotiate with Iran's Mullahs--Eliminate Them

Use of Force Against Iran Should Not Be Excluded

Failure to Prevent 9/11 Not a Lack of Imagination but of Cognition

9/11 Commission Right About Preemption

Iran Now Presents the Greater Danger

All Trade Is Fair

U.N.'s Moral Bankruptcy Is Exemplified by Sudan

FDA vs. Freedom

American Athletes Should Show Pride Not Humility

U.S. Should Get Out of the U.N.

The Apprentice Concretizes the American Dream

Draft Negates the Right to Life

Israel's Targeted Killing of Hamas Leader Justified

European Union's Assault on Microsoft Is Immoral

Israel's Targeted Killing of Sheikh Yassin Justified

The Urgent Need for Preemption

Israel's Enemies Are America's Enemies

Children Should Not Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Attacks On Outsourcing Have No Legitimate Basis

Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act Is Indecent

New Iraqi Constitution Must Separate State and Islam

Get Rid of the National Endowment for the Arts

Government Should Not Finance Art

Reparations for Slavery Should Be Rejected

Proposal to Expand the Space Program Is a Bad Idea

Afghan Constitution Should Include Separation of State and Religion

U.S. Should not Help Victims of Iran's Earthquake

Is Bush Financing Hatred Against America?

Greens vs. Humanity

Abetting Civilization's Enemies

Pledge of Allegiance Should Make no Reference to God

Democrats Couldn't Care Less About America's Security

Powell Recommends Appeasement Towards Terrorism

Kill--Don't Expel--Arafat

NYSE Chairman Should Keep His Money--And Be Proud of It

In Defense of Hollywood's Blacklist

Ayn Rand Still Influential

University of Michigan Hides Its Racist Policies

Palestinian Terrorists Are America's Enemies

The Environmentalist Take on the Blackout

More Regulations Will Not Prevent Future Blackouts

What Israel Should Do About Terrorism

What the Terrorist Attacks in Israel and Iraq Prove

Blackouts Are a Sign of Environmentalist Danger

U.S. Shouldn't Force Religious Freedom on Iraqis

Individualism Is the Real Cure for Racism

Bush's Misguided Criticism of Israel's Security Fence

Antitrust in Europe

The Difference Between ELF and Mainstream Environmentalists

What Palestinians Deserve

Bush Wrong on Release of Palestinian Terrorists

California's Deficit and Budget Crisis

Palestinian Culture Is a Culture of Death

Why Leftists Favor and Conservatives Meekly Oppose Going to Liberia

Leftist Study Attacking Conservatives Is an Intellectual Absurdity

U.S. Should Not Send Back Cuban Refugees

U.S. Has No Moral Obligation to Send Troops to Liberia

Self-Responsibility vs. Fat Lawsuits

Where Are the Peaceniks When We Need Them?

Support General Strike in Iran

Fears Over Harry Potter Unwarranted

Students Ignorant of American History

America's--and Iran's--Independence Day

Sodomy Laws Are Unconstitutional

Conservatives Are Not Defenders of Liberty

Nike Has a Right to Free Speech

What to Do with Hamas

If Necessary Use Force Against Iran

Supreme Court Wrong on Affirmative Action

America's Failed Education System

No Moral Equivalency Between Israelis and Palestinians

Palestinians' Reaction to Road Map

Road Map Is a Mistake

U.S. Should Not Spend Money to Fight AIDS Abroad

Bombing in Saudi Arabia

Sodomy Laws Are an Attack on Freedom

Iraqis Have No Right to a Dictatorship

No Human Rights in Cuba

Newt Gingrich's Justified Criticism of the State Department

War Is Sometimes the Only Answer

U.S. Has No Empire Ambitions

More Evidence that Environmentalism Is Anti-human

Let FedEx Do the Job

What Kind of Government for Iraq?

Faith-Based Initiative Immoral and Unconstitutional

Iraqi Oil Does Not Belong to the Iraqi People

No U.N. in post-war Iraq

Self-Defense Should Be the Purpose of the War

They Hate Us Too

Civilian Casualties Should Not Hinder War Effort

Peaceniks' Motivation

Palestinian State an Insane Idea

Unilateralism Morally Justified

A Close Look at the United Nations

False Accusations Against the U.S.

U.S. vs. U.N.

Cloning Should Not Be Banned

The Nature of the Peace Movement

The Columbia Tragedy

Faith-Based Initiatives Are an Assault on Secular Government

United We Stand

United States Should Withdraw from the United Nations

The Fundamental Difference Between the Israeli and the Palestinian Cultures

Ad Linking SUV Owners to Terrorism Is a Sham

Common Enemies

Are Media Networks Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?

Support Freedom in Hong Kong

Is Russia with Us or with the Terrorists?

Students Should Think for Themselves

A Show of Weakness

Embryos Are Not People

Freedom Fighters Against Terrorists

Israel's Enemies Are America's Enemies

Give Israel the Green Light to Eliminate Arafat

Reverence for the Primitive

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