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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]

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]

Will FDA choke off promising adult stem cell research? [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]

Why Rent Control is Immoral

America Before The Entitlement State [Forbes]

The Entitlement State Is Morally Bankrupt [Forbes]

How Important Is the Obamacare Litigation? [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]

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

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]

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

How About Tax Reparations for the Rich?

The Irresponsible Individual Mandate

The Avastin Travesty

The Un-American Dream

Obama Follows Nixon on Oil Spills

The U.S. Anti-Business Epidemic

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

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?

Obama's Flawed Prescription for Health Care

The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate

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

The Green Energy Fantasy

Let Bankruptcy Courts Take the Wheel

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech

No "Footprint," No Life

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures

Nationalization Is Theft

Supreme Disappointments

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters

In Defense of Speculators and Short-Sellers

Big Business: Home of Individualism

California Children Still Considered State Property

The Government Did It

From Flat World To Free World

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

Life And Taxes

Your Child Is Not State Property

War On Free Political Speech

Too Big to Bail

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 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!

"Single-Payer" Health Care Is Anything but Free

Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good

Celebrating Income Inequality

The Right to Assisted Suicide

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

The Religious Right's Culture of Living Death

What to Do About Gasoline Prices

Who Is Gouging Whom?

Pay Is Company's Prerogative

"Racial Balance" Programs: The New Racism

The Anti-Life Movement

The Conservatives' War on Birth Control

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

Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

The Myth of "Price-Gouging"

The Fear to Speak Comes to America's Shores

The Twilight of Freedom of Speech

The Cartoon Jihad: Free Speech in the Balance

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

The Advent of Freedom?

Presumed Guilty

The Need for an Active Supreme Court Justice

The Faith-Based Attack on Rational Government

The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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

Social Security is Immoral

Environmentalism's Dangerous Campaign for "Safety"

To Outsource or to Stagnate?

The Injustice of Insider Trading Laws

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

Council on Bioethics Antagonistic to Man's Well-Being

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

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

The Cost of the "Ethical" Assault on Honest Businessmen

Why Rent Control Is Immoral

Thought Control

Senate Should Allow Drilling in ANWR

Paralyzing America's Producers

Censorship on Campus?

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

The Virtue of "Playing God"

Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft

The Conference for Human Extermination

A Feeling Is Not an Argument

Liberalism vs. Individual Rights

Bush and Norton Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

Deregulation--Or Reregulation?

Why Greens Are to Blame for Blackouts

Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical

Whose Children Are They?

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

Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism

 

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