Women In Combat May Kill the Draft – Or Expand It

Senior Pentagon officials today leaked the news that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta plans to end the military’s long-standing ban on women serving in combat. This decision, which could potentially give women access to over 230,000 previously denied roles, comes on the heels of last year’s move that opened up over 14,000 combat positions to … Continued

Thursday Evening Links: “Real” Government Conspiracies?, Evolution’s Weirdest Hits, Further Adventures in Gun Control

Sometimes government conspiracies are real. Mental Floss has a list of eight and how they think they could be possible. “WTF, Evolution?” the new tumblr blog that celebrates weird-looking creatures. Obama still doesn’t care about the drug war. Pregnant women’s decisions are definitely the government’s business. It’s even worse if those pregnant women are already in prison. … Continued

A ‘Monstrous Absurdity’: Ayn Rand On Original Sin

This is an excerpt from John Galt’s lengthy speech at the end of Atlas Shrugged, and it deals with the notions of inherited guilt and ancestral sin, commonly known as “original sin”. Damnation is the start of your morality, destruction is its purpose, means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil, then … Continued