MERCHANTS OF DESPAIR: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo- Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin
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Number 715, April 7, 2013
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MERCHANTS OF DESPAIR: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism by Robert Zubrin
Reviewed by L. Neil Smith
Few things pain a writer worse than having to inform his readers that what may easily turn out to be the most important book of the century -- isn't one of his. The example at hand is Merchants of Despair, by Robert Zubrin, a name you may recognize. Zubrin is a "big picture" engineer who has done more than any other single individual to get humanity properly established on Mars, having earlier written The Case For Mars, which includes his unique plan, called "Mars Direct" for sending explorers, colonists, and settlement supplies to the Red Planet at a fraction of the estimated cost of any such undertaking by any government anywhere. He is also the founder of the Mars Society meant to carry out his plan.
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Neale's Weekly Gun Rant, Volume 4
by Neale Osborn
It's nice to see a la-who za-her finally getting back into the limelight. Jim Carrey, the formerly funny man, has decided that somehow, his former fame grants his opinions on victim disarmament more relevance, and must therefore be aired without anyone saying anything derogatory about those opinions. What he has actually done, with a pathetic rant on "Funny or Die", is that in addition to showing he doesn't know what the Constitution is about, he proves he is no longer funny. Then, to make matters worse for himself, he attacked FOX news for pointing out his stupidity (and taking a pot shot at his former fame). The pathetic has-been, most recently seen on film as a Chris Angel/David Blaine magician (and doing a bad job of it, I might add) might just want to shut his mouth on politics, work on his flexibility, and try to get a role doing what he used to do best -- physical humor. Besides, Canadians have no say in American politics.
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Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common...and it's not guns
by Mike Adams
Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. thoroughly confused.
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The National Boycott
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My column today is a first sketch of a US national movement I am founding to withhold personal moral, political, and/or economic sanction from the US federal government (USG) until it ends a modest number of its most blatant and extreme acts of aggression -- all unconstitutional -- in three broad categories, to wit....
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The Logical Proof for Rightful Individual Liberty
by Michael Chavez
The primary law that naturally governs the behavior of all individuals in all societies is: do not harm another.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 221
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Number 221 of a weekly cartoon series.
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As noted above, Ken Valentine died recently. I only met him in the flesh once, but it was a wonderful meeting. He was a warm and generous person (although he would not suffer fools one bit). He was in process of moving to Colorado, and became one of our Publisher's best friends. We will all miss him. This link to F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack forum has a bit more information.

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