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An Analysis of President Bush’s Terrorism Speech
by Warren Ross Dear HOS Member, I thought there were many good aspects of President Bush’s speech on terrorism the other night. He took an uncompromising moral stand, refused to negotiate with the terrorist countries, and identified how we could win the war against terrorism. I think that for the most part he reassured the…
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Anatomy of a Smear: “Urban Sprawl”
by Warren Ross “Urban sprawl” is a smear for geographical expansiveness of a city. It includes an evaluation as well as a description. The word “sprawl” is the giveaway – it connotes ugly spreading out. This begs the question: Ugly to whom and by what standard? Most Objectivists will see this as a smear and…
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The Limits of Dependency: How the Democrats Were Foiled by the True Nature of Man
by Warren Ross By all their expectations, the Democrats did not have to even get to the current point of having to steal the Presidential election by subjective recounting. They had everything in the bag in Florida. They had planned and then executed the most massive voter registration campaign in history. They had armies of…
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In Defense of the Electoral College
by Warren Ross Of all the discussions surrounding the recent close presidential election, the one that should be of most concern to those who value freedom is the proposal to modify our form of government to directly elect the president by popular vote. Repeated appeals to the “will of the people” on the part of…
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Sports Commentators and a Rational Morality
by Warren Ross It has been frequently observed, both in the larger Objectivist community and by members of HOS, that sports represents an area in our culture still dominated by rational values – admiration for achievement, striving for excellence, discipline to achieve important goals. Less attention has been paid to the specific commentary that accompanies…
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El Niño and the Metaphysics of Chaos
by Warren Ross See if you can integrate the following seemingly disparate concretes: The movie Jurassic Park The latest death in the Kennedy clan The movie Forrest Gump El Niño If what unites them is not immediately obvious, let’s start by reviewing the essentials of each item. In the movie Jurassic Park, man’s attempts to…
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The Real Horatio Alger
by Warren Ross “Horatio Alger hero” is a common phrase in America, referring to the person who achieves success by his own effort in the face of great obstacles. Over 100 books with such heroes were written by Horatio Alger (1834-1899), whose stories of boys overcoming poverty were widely read in the 19th century. Yet…
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Justice for Wyatt Earp
One hundred and twenty years ago the American West was a vast, open area brimming with natural resources and opportunity. Cow towns and mining camps sprung up across the landscape. From around the world, millions of people flocked to the Western territories with the hope of making a better life for themselves. Many came to…
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Book Review: Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
by Warren Ross Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood Edited by Patricia LeChevalier Atlantean Press, 1993, 356 pages Are you looking for inspiration? Do you sometimes ask: “How can I refuel myself?” For those pursuing productive goals, there are few, if any, books written today that concretize the struggle for values and the virtues required to…
