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Walter Hoye, the American Hero You Never Heard Of

By Paul Oyler / May 6, 2009 /

Not that that’s surprising, given the media’s unwillingness to ever make a hero out of someone like Walter. Here’s his story.

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Repeat After Me: Animals Do Not Have "Rights"

By Paul Oyler / April 15, 2009 /

By definition, in fact, animals cannot have rights. Protections? Certainly. Rights? Impossible. This doesn’t stop the Nicholas Kristofs of the world from blathering on about such “rights”, and lauding the election of Comrade Obama as being another step forward in the accumulation of such “rights” for critters. One clue the article is suspect is that…

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Peter Singer, Atheists, and Free Market Homicide

By Paul Oyler / March 22, 2009 /

Dinesh D’Souza writes an interesting article on the ethical consistency of Peter Singer, who follows Nietzsche to places where most atheists–unwilling to be honest about the true implications of their belief system–fear to tread: Staring into the Abyss I find Peter Singer an animal–which, of course, is precisely what Mr. Singer would say of himself!…

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Not Above Her Pay Grade!

By Paul Oyler / February 25, 2009 /

Read Lia’s story here, and then watch the video: Interesting…the article says that “one teacher stepped down” from judging the competition. I’d say that Lia and the pro-choice teacher (by her unwillingness to even listen to a speech in opposition to her own beliefs) both taught important things that day, wouldn’t you?

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The Darwin/Racism/Eugenics Connection

By Paul Oyler / February 16, 2009 /

You know how books often have a “by-line”? Did you know that Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species had one? Nah, neither did I. Want to know what it was? Ready? Phil Ryken gives us the scoop: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life Now, though I’d never heard that by-line, it doesn’t…

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