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To Protect the Defenseless, We Must Abolish the Minimum Wage [Forbes.com]

We Should Be Embarrassed by the Sequester Debate [Politix.com]

'Give Back' Is One of the World's Most Impoverishing Commands [Forbes.com]

Capitalism in No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It [Forbes.com]

3 crucial lessons Ayn Rand can teach us today [FoxNews.com]

Abortion Rights Are Pro-life [Huffington Post]

How The Welfare State Stole Christmas [Forbes.com]

It's time to unplug Medicare's third rail [Daily Caller]

I'll Buy My Own Contraception, Thanks [Townhall.com]

Why The Glass-Steagall Myth Persists [Forbes.com]

A Liberal Ayn Rand? [Huffington Post]

President Obama Duels With Ayn Rand Over What Makes America Great [Forbes.com]

Time to Read Ayn Rand? [PJMedia.com]

Why Ayn Rand's Absence From Last Thursday's Debate Benefits Big Government [Forbes.com]

Our Self-crippled Policy Encouraged the Deadly Embassy Attacks [Foxnews.com]

Asking Don Watkins: Can Ayn Rand's Ideas Really End Big Government? [Washington Times - Communities]

An Interview with Don Watkins [Education News]

The Virtue of Employee Layoffs [Forbes.com]

Galt Goes Global [Foreignpolicy.com]

Why Paul Ryan Is No Ayn Rand on Social Security [The Christian Science Monitor]

Ayn Rand's Appeal [Foxnews.com]

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Paean to American Liberty [The Guardian, U.K.]

Ryan, Rand and Rights [The Daily Caller]

President Obama vs. My Grandfather [Forbes.com]

The Dog-Eat-Dog Welfare State Is Lose-Lose [Forbes.com]

Private Equity Firms Want Their Acquisitions To Profit, Not Fold [Investor's Business Daily]

Opposing view: Celebrate private equity [USA Today]

3 Things Everyone Needs to Know About the Apple Antitrust Case

The 'On Your Own' Economy [Forbes]

Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand--Why Are You Still So Misunderstood? [Fox News Opinion]

Why Rent Control is Immoral

America Before The Entitlement State [Forbes]

How Did Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Predict an America Spinning Out of Control? [Fox News Opinion]

What We Owe Steve Jobs [Forbes]

The Entitlement State Is Morally Bankrupt [Forbes]

How Important Is the Obamacare Litigation? [Daily Caller]

We're Running Out of Freedom, Not Oil [Daily Caller]

Nuclear Power Is Extremely Safe -- That's the Truth About What We Learned From Japan [Fox News Opinion]

What's Missing from the Budget Debate [Forbes]

Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus? [Fox News Opinion]

When It Comes to Wealth Creation, There Is No Pie [Forbes]

Four Dirty Secrets about Clean Energy [Fox News Opinion]

Vindicating Standard Oil, 100 Years Later [The Daily Caller]

It's Time to Kill the "Robin Hood" Myth [Forbes]

"Atlas Shrugged": With America on the Brink, Should You "Go Galt" and Strike? [Christian Science Monitor]

The Radicalness of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" [Fox News Opinion]

Greens vs. Energy [American Thinker]

Why "Atlas Shrugged" Changes Lives [Pajamas Media]

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Pre-existing Conditions (Part 3) [Forbes]

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved with Pre-existing Conditions (Part 2) [Forbes]

The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved with Pre-existing Conditions [Forbes]

Forget Groundhog Day--Why Businessmen Should Say Happy Birthday to Ayn Rand [Fox News Opinion]

The Tea Party Will Fail--Unless it Fully Embraces Individualism as a Moral Ideal

How About Tax Reparations for the Rich?

The 6 Myths About Oil

Can Arthur Brooks Beat Back Big Government?

The Irresponsible Individual Mandate

The Avastin Travesty

Let's Take Back Columbus Day

Apple Now Targeted for Success Like Microsoft Was in the 1990s

The Guilt Pledge

Our Moral Code Is Out of Date

How To Succeed In Business: Really Try

The Un-American Dream

Obama Follows Nixon on Oil Spills

The U.S. Anti-Business Epidemic

Atlas Shrugged's Timeless Moral: Profit-Making Is Virtue, Not Vice

Elena Kagan: Could She Defend the Constitution's Purpose?

Three Myths About Oil

6 Questions for Environmentalists On Earth Day

What About Private Health Emergencies?

What's Really Driving the Toyota Controversy?

Apple vs. GM: Ayn Rand Knew the Difference. Do You?

Were the Founding Fathers Media Socialists?

Get Real, Bernanke Didn't "Save" Our Economy

Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need

Person of the Year? How About Spinmeister of the Year?

Commercialism Only Adds to Joy of the Holidays

Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand way: Thank yourself

Obama's Flawed Prescription for Health Care

The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate

What Obama Should Say to Iran

Let's Take Back Columbus Day

Smash the Labor Monopolies!

Our Self-Crippled War

Why Are We Moving Toward Socialized Medicine?

Punishing Google for Its Success

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Misrepresenting "How We Arrived at This Moment"

Mob Rule Comes to Washington

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Is Rand Relevant?

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty

Obama Whitewashes Iran

The Green Energy Fantasy

Let Bankruptcy Courts Take the Wheel

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech

No "Footprint," No Life

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures

Nationalization Is Theft

The Maestro vs. the Market

Supreme Disappointments

The Meaning of the Right to Vote

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Let Them Fail

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters

Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization

In Defense of Speculators and Short-Sellers

Big Business: Home of Individualism

Let's Stop Making Disasters More Disastrous

California Children Still Considered State Property

Retire Social Security

The Government Did It

With or Without Nukes, Iran Is a Mortal Threat

Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day

From Flat World To Free World

Bush's War Policy: The Top Campaign Non-Issue?

An Open Letter to Borrowers and Lenders: Take Responsibility for Your Decisions

Investigate Big Congress, Not Big Oil

Set Yahoo! Free

How Government Makes Disasters More Disastrous

The Danger of Environmentalism

Life And Taxes

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Your Child Is Not State Property

The Price of Bush's Commitment to Palestinian Statehood

The Easter Masquerade

War On Free Political Speech

Too Big to Bail

An Open Letter to America's Students--Will "Atlas Shrugged" Change Your Life Forever?

Project Lifeline: Collaboration or Intimidation?

"Net Neutrality": Destroyer of Internet Freedom

To Stimulate The Economy, Liberate It

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

The Right Vision Of Health Care

The Meaning of New Year's Resolutions

The Pakistan Crisis

Is Washington With Us?

The Injustice of "Doing Something" about Subprime

Deep-Six the Law of the Sea

Don't Save Social Security

After Ten Years, States Still Resist Assisted Suicide

"Open Access" and the Tyranny of the FCC

Be Healthy or Else!

It Isn't Easy Being Green

Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged

Why Atlas Shrugged Changes Lives

The Influence of Atlas Shrugged

The Appeal of Ayn Rand

"Single-Payer" Health Care Is Anything but Free

Who Really Supports Our Troops?

Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good

The Real Disgrace: Washington's Battlefield "Ethics"

Celebrating Income Inequality

How to Stop Iran?

No Right to "Free" Health Care

The Right to Assisted Suicide

Rachel Carson's Genocide

Say "No Way!" to "Say on Pay"

Jamestown: Birthplace of America's Distinctive, Secular Ideal

The Radicalness of Atlas Shrugged

The Religious Right's Culture of Living Death

What to Do About Gasoline Prices

In Defense of Income Inequality

Who Is Gouging Whom?

Washington's Make-Believe Policy on Iran

How to Truly Support our Troops

Pay Is Company's Prerogative

"Racial Balance" Programs: The New Racism

What Real War Looks Like

The Anti-Life Movement

Thanksgiving: A Most Selfish Holiday

Reject Environmentalism, Not DDT

The Conservatives' War on Birth Control

The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam

Why We Are Losing Hearts and Minds

The Indispensable Condition of Peace

The U.S.-Israeli Suicide Pact

A Victory for Big Tobacco--and the Rule of Law

Keep Our "Addiction" to Oil, End Our Allergy to Self-Assertion

Diplomacy Only Encourages North Korea's Belligerence

Washington's Failed War in Afghanistan

Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

Catholic Leaders Need to Show a Little Respect for Freedom

Washington's Pro-Hamas Foreign Policy

Why Are CEOs Paid So Much?

Drop the "Windfall Profits" Smear

Freedom vs. Unlimited Majority Rule

The Myth of "Price-Gouging"

The Transformation of "Jihad Jack" and John Walker Lindh

The Fear to Speak Comes to America's Shores

Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech

The Twilight of Freedom of Speech

The Cartoon Jihad: Free Speech in the Balance

Who Will Defend Industry from Eco-Terrorism?

The Injustice of Saddam's Trial

"Intelligent Design" Is about Religion versus Reason

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

Death to "Diplomacy" with Iran

The Advent of Freedom?

The Foreign Policy of Guilt

The UN's "Virtue" Is Its Vice

"Muslim Opinion" Be Damned

The Perversity of U.S. Backing for the Gaza Retreat

Israel's Deadly Appeasement Process Continues

Presumed Guilty

The "Animal Rights" Movement's Cruelty to Humans

The Bait and Switch of "Intelligent Design"

The Need for an Active Supreme Court Justice

Lance Armstrong's Heroism Is a Moral Inspiration

Fight the Root of Terrorism With Bombs, Not Bread

The Faith-Based Attack on Rational Government

Animal "Rights" Versus Human Rights

Moral Values Without Religion

The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The "Sin" of Pride

Betraying the Real Freedom Fighters

A Culture of Living Death

The Ten Commandments vs. America

Supreme Court Should Uphold Rights, Not Majority Sentiment in Ten Commandments Cases

The Tyranny of Eminent Domain

Drug Safety vs. the FDA

Free Speech on Campus

Educators vs. Students

Bush's Betrayal of America: The Iraqi Elections

Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom

Rewarding the MVPs of the Business World

Social Security is Immoral

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Faith and Force

Environmentalism's Dangerous Campaign for "Safety"

Arafat's Undeserved Honor: The West's Shame

The Meaning of the Right to Vote

Columbus Day: The Cure for 9/11

Multiculturalism's War on Education

The Olympics Represent the Best of Western Civilization

To Outsource or to Stagnate?

The Injustice of Insider Trading Laws

World Opinion Be Damned

Bush's Faith-Based Initiative Is an Assault on the Wall Between Church and State

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Council on Bioethics Antagonistic to Man's Well-Being

American Appeasement in Iraq

Diverting the Blame for 9/11

A Passion Against Man

The Terror of "Animal Rights"

Cloning Is Moral

Exploiters vs. Victims in the Grocery Strike

Campaign Finance Reform Attacks Victims of Corruption

Immoral to Ban Human Cloning

Cloning Is Moral

Educators vs. Reading

The U.S. Must Stop Undermining Israel's War on Terrorism

Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Would Be a Blow to Women's Rights

The Mounting Threat of Homegrown Terrorism

The Timid War on Terrorism

The Cost of the "Ethical" Assault on Honest Businessmen

Don't Blame Our Intelligence Agencies--Blame Our Unprincipled Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy and Self-Interest

The Real Museum Looters

Why Rent Control Is Immoral

Thought Control

The Ideological Reconstruction of Iraq

Stop Apologizing for Civilian Casualties

They Hate Us, Too

Senate Should Allow Drilling in ANWR

Innocents in War?

In Defense of the Cowboy

The Racism of "Diversity"

Peacenik Warmongers

Capitalism Is the Cure for Africa's Problems

War and Morality

Let's Revive Philosophy

Paralyzing America's Producers

The Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Those Who Really Support Peace

Thinking It Alone

The Betrayal of the Bush Doctrine

Censorship on Campus?

America Is Not Winning the War

An Open Letter to CEOs: Defend the Profit Motive-or Perish

No Conflict Between Liberty and Security

What Is Killing the Stock Market? Government Regulation

Prescription Drug Benefits Violate the Rights of Drug Companies

The Threat of the Paternalistic State

Capitalists vs. Crooks

Walker Lindh: From Marin County to Mazar-I-Sharif

Bush's Vision for Peace: Prelude to War

Israel Has a Moral Right to Its Life

The Virtue of "Playing God"

Honoring Virtue

Forgotten Heroes of 9/11

Homegrown Terrorism

Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft

Israel's Suicide

Bush's Un-American and Immoral Call for "National Service"

Love and Selfishness

Unlimited Liability

"Peace" Process: Israel's Path to Suicide

Disband the Coalition

Allowing Israel to Destroy the PLO Helps Defend the U.S.

The Lure of Baseball

The Immorality of a "Compassionate War" on Terrorism

Terrorists vs. America

War, Nuclear Weapons and "Innocents"

An Open Letter to the International Olympic Committee Regarding China

The Conference for Human Extermination

The Morality of Genetic Engineering

Conservation vs. the American Dream

The Evil of Animal "Rights"

A Feeling Is Not an Argument

Liberalism vs. Individual Rights

Bush and Norton Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

Shame on Casey Martin

Deregulation--Or Reregulation?

The Joy of Football

Why Greens Are to Blame for Blackouts

Say No to the "Self-Esteem" Pushers

"Buy American" Is Un-American

Why Students Can't Add or Subtract

Animal "Rights" vs. Human Rights

Are The Reading Wars Over?

Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical

Whose Children Are They?

Feminism's War on Objectivity

The Tobacco Industry Surrender

A Supreme Court Overview

11th Circuit Court Rejects the Rights of Elian Gonzalez

The Moral Menace of Proposition 103

Reason vs. Faith

Compulsory Service for High School Students

Blacklists Are Not Censorship

Man vs. Nature

A Tale of Two Novels

The Christopher Columbus Controversy

The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains

Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism

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