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Post 60

Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 5:29amSanction this postReply
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Julia,

Glad to hear there's someone else on this list who likes traditional Irish music. I received the Best of Bothy Band album as a present on my 13th birthday and have been a fan ever since. I grew up with folk music, My mother and uncle play the 5-string banjo and my father wrote a book "How to Play Folk and Blues Harmonica" which is published by Mel Bay. I also enjoy Beethoven, Vivaldi and Holst in classical music,  but I'm not much of an opera fan because I prefer minor keys and I enjoy playing around with music written in Mixolydian and Dorian mode.

Jim


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Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 6:06amSanction this postReply
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When do we get the results of these polls? As far as I can tell, the results of the past six polls haven't been posted yet.

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Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 6:55amSanction this postReply
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Andre,

Once you vote the poll results are displayed.  If you haven't voted you can get them easily by voting.  If you've voted and can't see the result you need to contact support.

Bill


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Post 63

Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 8:02amSanction this postReply
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Okay, I voted for Free Radical. Please send me my Free Subscription.  ;-)


Post 64

Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 9:45amSanction this postReply
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That's true, Kat - it did say 'free'......

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Post 65

Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 5:49pmSanction this postReply
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The New Individualist is a conservative magazine.

The TOC site has no mention of its magazine's recent issue and its future. But at bidinotto.journalspace.com (08/26/05) Bob has a status report.

I thought TOC spends almost all it money on a magazine to promote Objectivism and Objectivist intellectuals to the culture at large, but I'm wrong. 

The "new contributors" (NO SOLOs) are conservatives. Like Henry Mark Holzer, like Bork, is an "strict" conservative legal scholar who left objectivism, or Bruce S. Thornton is conservative scholar like Bob Bennet, etc.  Also "interviews and profiles of colorful social mavericks" and "debates between leading champions of opposing viewpoints."

It seems that TOC is collecting funds from Objectivists to support and promote conservative intellectuals, social mavericks, and people who oppose Objectivism...to objectivist. Since it is mainly an in house magazine, how will this help Objectivism? The few hundred non objectivists who see the magazine will not be influenced because they won't be seeing any Objectivism.

Have any of the Objectivist writers on this site been contacted by TOC?  



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Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 6:10pmSanction this postReply
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I voted for Liberty - a wide range of articles and topics from the silly to the über-serious, and there are no sacred cows in this publication.  I'd never heard of Free Radical until I joined SOLO a few days ago, so I will have to check it out - tho the subscription price is too rich for my blood.


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Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 8:06pmSanction this postReply
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Yes - is why have not subscribed myself... still a poor  artist [tho not starving... lol]...

Post 68

Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 8:09pmSanction this postReply
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"The New Individualist is a conservative magazine."

Glenn, why don't we try not to shoot people before they've fully left the starting gate?

Also, the fact that some conservatives who can write well, are polished and experienced may be a -good- thing. Assuming, of course that Objectivist content is not shunted aside. But, again, why don't we wait and see until enough issues "under new management" have taken place. I'm willing to cut them some slack. [Nothing could be as bad as the old verbose, rudderless, drifting, poorly written "navigator".]

Phil

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Sunday, September 18, 2005 - 10:47pmSanction this postReply
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Philip,

Now that "Why Cloning Really Matters" has been presented at SOLOC4 and published in The Free Radical, I'll admit that I first offered it to TOC and their magazine. I did it in part as an experiment: if they accepted it for the TOC conference and published it, it would show a vestige of backbone on their part; and if not, the manner in which they turned it down would tell me if they have any integrity left. Negative: they turned it down and gave me a transparently dishonest excuse. That is how I deduced that TOC is now in the business of selling the sanction of the victim to theocratic conservatives - and I expect their magazine to be a Kigmee paper.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 2:51amSanction this postReply
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Glenn: I was contacted by Bidinotto with a request for articles. I sincerely wish I had more time with which to write one, but at the moment that is not the case. But I'm sure if I ever did write one, and they rejected it, it would be because they are all a bunch of neo-theocratic Buckleyite Dobson-reptiles.

/sarcasm


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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 4:08amSanction this postReply
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A number of SOLOists, myself included, were contacted. I told Robert all my writing is for FreeRad/SOLO, but I wished him well in bringing some KASS to his enterprise, as I did when his appointment was first announced. Even Boring Old Fart of the Month Phil Coates managed to rouse himself to a semblance of emotional life with his observation that *anything* would be an improvement on the turgid Navigator. I haven't seen Bidinotto 1 so can't comment on these claims that The New Individualist is really The New Conservative. But I can confidently say that The Free Radical is still the biggest bang for Objecti-libertarian buck. To those Americans bitching about the price—remember that's the $NZ rate that's quoted. When converted to $US it's affordable even for impoverished artists.

Linz

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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 12:28pmSanction this postReply
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I, too, was one of those contacted. And calling Henry Holzer a conservative is pure drivel.

Post 73

Monday, September 19, 2005 - 8:22amSanction this postReply
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Philip,

Bob writes in his blog that the issue is out, I thought the people who got it would respond. The fact some conservatives can write well is nice, but how many Objectivist outlets are there. TOC raises funds to promote Objectivism, how does that work when the money is used to promote conservative intellectuals? How does this get Objectivism a hearing in the culture at large? If they're
sending the magazine to other think tanks gain recognition, shouldn't it be full of Objectivism by Objectivists? Using conservatives defeats their whole business plan.


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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 7:37pmSanction this postReply
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Pure drivel from Henry Mark Holzer's Web site:  www.henrymarkholzer.com


 --William H. Rehnquist, Rip--
"Thus, it was Griswold that provided a "living Constitution" rationale for the later decision in Roe. Accordingly, when Rehnquist dissented in Roe he was attacking Griswold, and by attacking Griswold he was repudiating the indefensible and pernicious notion of a "living Constitution." This is a crucially important aspect of his jurisprudence. Were there room on his headstone, there are those who would like to see this epitaph: "William H. Rehnquist: He read the Constitution, understood its meaning, and so ruled."


--Sodomy and Federalism--
"The Griswold decision led to the deaths of literally countless unborn children because it was that cases Douglas-created "right of privacy" that served as the precedent for the Supreme Courts legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade."

"Accordingly, two things ought to happen when the SC considers the constitutionality of the Texas Homosexual Conduct Law. The court should uphold the offensive Texas law, refusing to endorse, let alone invoke, the ersatz Griswold/Roe "right to privacy."
"Once the case is over in the SC, homosexuals and heterosexuals alike if they cannot obtain recourse through the Texas judicial system, under that State constitution should go into the Texas legislature and get its anti-sodomy law repealed."
[Now that's going to happen!]


--The Con of Another O'Connor--
"If President Bush intends to keep the promise he made to the people who elected him twice, he must live up to what he told them in his 2000 debate with Al Gore: that he would appoint judges "who will strictly interpret the Constitution and will not use the bench to write social policy."


Let see, homosexuals only have the right to have sex if the government says its ok, abortion is the murder of unborn children, strict interpretation of the Constitution, and Scalia is the ideal judge. Smells like a conservative, a legal positivist.





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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 8:52pmSanction this postReply
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Henry Holtzer helped start the animal rights movement. In 1981 he put on one of the first animal legal rights conference at Brooklyn School of Law. Later most of the lawyers formed Attorneys for Animal Rights, now Animal Legal Defense Fund. 

He was the founder and Editor of "Animal Rights Law Reporter," 1980-1983, a quarterly publication of Society For Animal Rights, Inc.

Wrote among other papers on animal rights:
"An open letter to those in the animal rights/welfare movement who have suddenly become alert to the danger of defamation lawsuits," International Society for Animal Rights report.


Maybe the reason he gave up Objectivism:

"Drafting of "An act amending the act of nov 25, 1970(no. 230), entitled 'an act codifying and compiling a part of the Law of the commonwealth (of PA), 'redefining the offense of cruelty to animals and providing additional remedies."

Drafting of Amendment of the charter of the city of NY, providing for the creation of NYC dept. of Animal affairs." (1973)

Professional Activities:
Special Counsel, Inter. Society for Animal Rights/ Dir. and Chairman, ISAR/ Trustee and Pres. Institute for Animal Rights Law/

AND this should have been in my other post, "Advisory Council, Free Congress Foundation." This is one of the most far right foundations in Washington DC, started by Paul Weyrich who also helped Jerry Fawell start the Moral Majority.


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Monday, September 19, 2005 - 9:55pmSanction this postReply
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"Even Boring Old Fart of the Month Phil Coates managed to rouse himself to a semblance of emotional life ..." [Linz]

I have my moments.

Post 77

Monday, September 19, 2005 - 10:46pmSanction this postReply
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Glenn,

Yes, HH is a conservative. But that just makes the kind of customer TOC has in mind.


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