John Shepard (@john_r_shepard) 's Twitter Profile
John Shepard

@john_r_shepard

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calendar_today06-11-2012 14:47:32

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“I once received a letter from a lawyer who thought he disproved evolution. He said, ‘species can't mate with members of other species. At some point, there must have been a Homo erectus which gave birth to a Homo sapiens child and that one generation couldn't mate with the

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Was Ayn Rand right to condemn antitrust law as "penalizing ability for being ability"? The #GoogleAntitrust case judge conceded that Google succeeds because it is "the industry's highest quality search engine"--but still labeled it an "illegal monopolist."

Timothy Sandefur (@timothysandefur) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sanders’s work on the natural rights guarantees in state constitutions is enormously important. All con law people need to check it out:

Lila Rose (@lilagracerose) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two universities have asked me to come to their campuses this fall and debate a leading pro-abortion activist or politician. But so far, they have been unable to find anyone to agree to debate me. What are abortion supporters so afraid of?

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Zuckerberg now says he was pressured to remove FB content about Covid. If so, this older essay of mine applies. But if you’re worried about political pressure on companies, worry that he’s also being pressured by Congressional Republicans. newideal.aynrand.org/facebook-censo…

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“There have, of course, been real conspiracies for which evidence has emerged. But [this doesn’t] show today’s conspiracists are ‘right.’ . . . One man’s fantasy does not transform into another’s evidence-based theory.” open.substack.com/pub/newideal/p…

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'The U.S. immigration is designed to make life as difficult as possible for people who come to America to work hard and build a better life.' newideal.aynrand.org/?p=15353

Liz Cheney (@liz_cheney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

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How America’s 9/11 Response Enabled October 7. In this episode, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how the ethics of altruism subverted America’s response to 9/11, how ARI’s analysis foresaw the ensuing disasters, and how U.S. policy paved the road for Hamas’s savage attacks of

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Newly online: Gregory Salmieri's in-depth analysis of the philosophical foundations of the right to free speech and applications to numerous controversies. Originally published in Tara Smith's volume, The First Amendment, now available to all: newideal.aynrand.org/free-speech-as…

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Find out why some of those who demand that certain platforms feature views the platforms may find abhorrent amounts to the whine of an entity that wants to be a ward of the state demanding the services of a “common carrier.” agustina vergara cid with Gregory Salmieri

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Trump: Harris wants "to impose communist-inspired price controls which have never worked.” Trump 10 minutes later: "We’re going to put a temporary [10%] cap on credit card interest rates." 🔗: cato.org/commentary/tru…