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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Craig Biddle on Israel vs. Hamas

Why You and I and Everyone Should Support Israel Against the Barbarians

Posted by principled perspectives at 10:00 AM
Labels: Imperialist Islamic Totalitarianism, Religion, War, World Affairs

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  • Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.—Francisco d'Anconia
  • I love getting older...I get to grow up and learn things. Madalyn, 5 years old, Montesorri student, and my grand-daughter
  • The best thing one can do for the poor is to not become one of them. Author Unknown
  • Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Ronald Reagan
  • Thinking is hard work. If it weren't, more people would do it. Henry Ford
  • Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. Ayn Rand

Recommended Books

  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics
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  • Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis—and Why It Could Happen Again
  • In Defense of Selfishness
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  • State of Fear
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  • The Financial Crises and the Free Market Cure
  • The Forgotten Depression—1921: The Crash That Cured Itself
  • The Fountainhead
  • The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
  • The Ominous Parallels
  • The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
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