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	<title>San Diego Objectivist Study Group</title>
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	<description>Discussion of activities for the San Diego Objectivist Study Group</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The &#8216;Inexplicable Personal Alchemy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/08/14/the-inexplicable-personal-alchemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The conviction that ideas matter is such an exceedingly rare judgment among the people around us that I always feel joyous to encounter it. The effort going into creating this picture appeals to the &#8220;inexplicable personal alchemy&#8221; in all of us.

The story of this message is here. (HT: Instapundit)
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		<title>Big McDonald&#8217;s with a Moral Backbone</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/07/09/big-mcdonalds-with-a-moral-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/07/09/big-mcdonalds-with-a-moral-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I am glad to see that fast-food McDonald&#8217;s Corp. is standing up to the so-called consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Last month, CSPI charged that McDonald&#8217;s Happy Meals with their little toys represent deceptive marketing, which lure the children to eat unhealthful meals and which undermine parental authority. CSPI wanted the toys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whether Activism Matters</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/07/06/whether-activism-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/07/06/whether-activism-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["Activism matters." That is the conclusion from [a] Sunday reflection on the recent Supreme Court decision McDonald v. Chicago. I find the conclusion unconvincing. It's like saying action matters. The issue is really, what kind of activism that matters?]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Growth in Relation to Government Size</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/economic-growth-in-relation-to-government-size/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/economic-growth-in-relation-to-government-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel J. Mitchell at the Cato Institute has made another informative video on basic economics. The video asks a simple question: Since the government is a necessary institution in a free society, how big should the government be, in terms of government spending as a percentage of GDP, in order to maximize the growth of the society&#8217;s economy? Mr. Mitchell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlas Society&#8217;s New Web Site</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/the-atlas-societys-new-web-site/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/the-atlas-societys-new-web-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Objective News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having launched Phase 1 today, The Atlas Society&#8217;s new web site looks good. Here is the press release about what else needs to be done in the upcoming months to migrate contents from the old site.
Of special note, the main page now has a prominent tab for the purpose of spreading Objectivism to Asia. The mission states: &#8220;As Asia rises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psycho-Epistemology Going Mainstream</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/psycho-epistemology-going-mainstream/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/30/psycho-epistemology-going-mainstream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Tierney writes another good article in science—this time in psychology. More specifically, it is about psycho-epistemology, though the neuroscientists working on it don&#8217;t know that. Skipping past these psychologists&#8217; primitive theories about mind wandering (including daydreaming and zoning out) as being evolutionarily adaptive or as beneficial against boredom, we come to the real findings about human consciousness: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Cars On Sale</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/29/flying-cars-on-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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A new car that can fly is now available for anyone who wishes to preorder one. According to a news report, the model, called Transition, is being made by the company Terrafugia. It is a two-seater that can drive normally on land for 30 mpg and can fly as a &#8220;light aircraft&#8221; at 115 mph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/28/the-nature-of-rights-and-the-us-supreme-court/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/28/the-nature-of-rights-and-the-us-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in McDonald v. Chicago to re-affirm the 2nd Amendment that the right to bear arms is inherent in the individual, not in some collective, and that no federal, state, or municipal law shall be passed to infringe on this right. While this is the correct decision—correct with respect to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unscientific AGW</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/10/unscientific-agw/</link>
		<comments>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/10/unscientific-agw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is over. The case for anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming has been busted for systematically not following any scientific method. According to the Financial Post:
A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fails to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Altruism and Israel</title>
		<link>http://newintellectual.org/wordpress/2010/06/04/altruism-and-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ThomTG</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is happening in Israel today&#8211;with the many denunciations worldwide over its government&#8217;s blockade against &#8220;supply&#8221; boats to the Gaza Strip&#8211;is the result of postmodern collectivism.
To be clear, I don&#8217;t like Israel as a country, because it was founded, not on liberty, but on grounds of racism and religion, and because it has a nearly-socialist, [...]]]></description>
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