Art

My Novella, The Merchant of Mars

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My novella, The Merchant of Mars, is available on Amazon in paperback (list price of $10) and as a Kindle ebook ($3). Just click this cover: Here is what the story is about. The head of NASA convinces the President that space exploration should be done by private industry, and the United States government declares, […]

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Happy 111th birthday of Ayn Rand

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As is my custom, I celebrate the birthday of Ayn Rand by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Any passage is a great inspiration. Here is what I read today, from Atlas Shrugged, Part One / Chapter IX (thanks to Phil Oliver and his Objectivism Research CD-ROM for making it […]

Politics

It is the Submission that Causes the Violence

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In this article about Islam, about which libraries have been written, I will make or allude to these main points: – In the Koran, more fundamental than the pervasive call to violence against non-believers is the pervasive call for coercion; and more fundamental than the pervasive call for coercion is the pervasive call for submission […]

Politics

Why I Oppose Open Immigration, on Principle

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In 2013, regarding immigration, I wrote, Any non-criminal, non-disease-carrying individual should be free to enter the United States and work just like any American citizen. I was wrong. I failed to realize that an enemy can organize large numbers of people who have not yet committed a detectable crime, but who have committed—or are at […]

Politics

Democrats Are Muslims Now

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At the Democratic presidential debate on Saturday, Hillary Clinton said, And we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that Trump is sending around the world don’t fall on receptive ears. He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in […]

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The Saudi Threat to Cedar City and All of America

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125,000 Saudi students, financed by the Saudi king, are attending American universities. On November 18, five days after Islamists murdered 130 people in Paris, the Southern Utah University student newspaper SUU News published an article by SUU Provost Bradley J. Cook entitled “We must be an open-minded campus,” in which Provost Cook dismissed concerns about any […]

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Happy Atlas Shrugged Day 2015

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Each year on September 2, informally known as Atlas Shrugged Day, I celebrate by opening to a random page of the novel and reading. I consider this novel by Ayn Rand the greatest work of art and perhaps the greatest achievement in history. Every page is an unsurpassed inspiration. This is a passage I opened […]