August 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of August's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. John Lewis, What 'Right' to Health Care, Raleigh News and Observer and Real Clear Politics, Aug 3/09 2. John Lewis, Jewish Settlements and Israeli Law, CapMag and Objective Standard Blog, Jul 29/09 3. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "In health debate, left and right need to check premises", Grand Junction Free Press, Aug 3/09 4. John Lewis, "Health Care: Why Call it a 'Right'?", Huffington Post, Aug 13/09 5. John Lewis, "There is no 'Right' to Health Care", Durhan Herald-Sun, Aug 6/09 6. Ari Armstrong, "Rationing inherent in Obamacare", Colorado Springs Gazette, Aug 14/09 7. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "That government is best which protects individual rights", Grand Junction Free Press, Aug 17/09 8. Amit Ghate, “Misconstruing the Cause of Waste”, Pajamas Media, Aug 23/09 9. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Debunking health care reform myths", Grand Junction Free Press, Aug 31/09 10. Barbara Nelson, "Seek out real facts about health care", Daily Courier, Aug 19/09 Media Appearances 1. John Lewis, Doc Thompson Radio Show, Aug 4/09 2. John Lewis, BBC/NPR, World Have Your Say on Health Care Reform, Aug 14/09 3. John Lewis, The Brian Wilson Show, Health Care Reform, WPSD Toledo Aug 14/09 4. John Lewis, The Bill Lumaye Show, Health Care Reform, WPTF Raleigh, Aug 13/09 5. John Lewis, The Tara Servatius Show, Health Bill HR3200, WBT News Talk, Aug 20/09 6. John Lewis, The Bill Lumaye Show, Health Care Reform, WPTF Raleigh, Aug 27/09 7. John Lewis, KOGO radio, Why Obama has ignited nationwide protests, Aug 31/09 Citations or Links 1. John Lewis, "What the Health Care Bill HR3200 Says" on Rush Limbaugh, Aug 12/09 2. John Lewis, "What the Health Care Bill HR3200 Says" in "It’s a Health Care Overhaul, Not Health Care Reform" Melissa Clouthier, PajamasMedia, Aug 16/09 3. Paul Hsieh in the "Future of Obesity?" Proto Magazine, Summer 2009 Letters to the Editor 1. Amesh Adalja, "Not a Right", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Aug 6/09 2. Jessica Robbins, "Yes, we've lost our minds", Valley Breeze, Aug 13/09 3. Amesh Adalja, "Don't accept pastor's view", Butler Eagle, Aug 14/09 4. Tim Peck, Healthcare, Asheville Citizen Times, Aug 12/09 5. Anders Ingemarson, "Healthcare is not a Right", Denver Post, Aug 19/09 6. Michelle Minton, "Integrity not Legislated", USA Today, Aug 26/09 7. Paul Hsieh, "Health Care Statistics", Denver Post, Aug 29/09. Miscellaneous 1. John David Lewis, "History, Politics, and Claims of Man-Made Global Warming" CCNET Summer 2009 2. Ari Armstrong, talk entitled "How Republicans Can Win on Health Reform" for the Denver Metro Young Republicans, Aug 25/09 Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

July 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of July's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Joseph Kellard, A Russian Immigrant's Lesson in American Patriotism, Long Beach Herald, Jul 1/09 2. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Politicians Cause Mortgage Meltdown", Grand Junction Free Press, Jul 6/09 3. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "DeMints health handouts violate liberty", Grand Junction Free Press, Jul 20/09 4. Ari Armstrong, "Hope and Change in Harry Potter", Independence Institute, Jul 21/09 5. Ari Armstrong, "Don’t ban or force abortions", Boulder Weekly, Jul 23/09 6. Paul Hsieh, "The Federal Health Care Muggers", PajamasMedia, July 24/09 7. John Lewis, "Jewish Settlements and Israeli Law", CapMag & Objective Standard Blog, Jul 29/09 Speaking Engagements 1. Tim Peck, Asheville Tea Party, Jul 4/09 2. Ari Armstrong, Denver Health Rally, Jul 28/09 Letters to the Editor 1. Hannah Krening, Time to Fight for your Rights, Colorado Springs Gazette, Jul 3/09 2. Tom Da Silva, untitled, Cumberland Bulletin, Jul 13/09 3. Brendan Moore, "Capitalism not cause of health care woes", Daily Herald, July 16/09 4. Amesh Adalja, "Feature Rational Thought", Butler Eagle, Jul 16/09 5. Joseph Kellard, untitled, Wired Magazine Aug 2009 edition 6. Sylvia Bokor, untitled, Providence Journal, Jul 19/09 7. Amesh Adalja, untitled, The Pitt News, Jul 22/09 8. Rob Abiera, "Food for Thought", Oklahoma Gazette, Jul 22/09 9. Jay Robbins, "We are losing our freedom", Jay Robbins, Jul 21/09 10. Sylvia Bokor, untitled, Albuquerque Journal, Jul 31/09 Miscellaneous 1. Sylvia Bokor, "Tea Parties Visit Congressional Offices", ABQ Tea Party web site Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

June 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of June's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Are you a conservative of a liberal?", Grand Junction Free Press, Jun 8/09 2. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Reject political control of health care", Grand Junction Free Press, Jun 24/09 Newspaper Blogs 1. Sylvia Bokor, "America at a Crossroads", Times Herald (MI), Jun 9/09 2. Sylvia Bokor, "Tea Parties Versa Collectivism", Times Herald (MI), Jun 10/09 Letters to the Editor 1. Amesh Adalja, "View is recipe for tyranny", Butler Eagle, Jun 3/09 2. Amesh Adalja, "A Question of Rights", University Times, Jun 25/09 3. Tim Peck, "A universal health care plan will become a huge monopoly", Asheville Citizen-Times, Jun 29/09 4. Jennifer Casey, "Government caused disparity in insurance", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jun 30/09 5. Tim Peck, "Calling U.S. health care system ‘free market’ termed erroneous", Asheville Daily Planet, Jun 30/09 Media Appearances 1. Andy Clarkson on WBT-AM 1110/99.3 FM, Charlotte, Jun 19/09 2. Ari Armstrong on the Bob Glass show, Jun 23/09 Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

May 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of May's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Paul Hsieh, "Health Care Reform vs. Universal Health Care", PajamasMedia, May 05/09 2. Amit Ghate, "Questioning the Value of Regulation", Pajamas Media, May 6/09 3. Ari Armstrong, "Independent Ideas: Udall's credit controls punish the responsible", Colorado Daily, May 24/09 4. Linn and Ari Armstrong, ‘Invasion forces headed for Japan’, Grand Junction Free Press, May 25/09 Letters to the Editor 1. Rob Abiera, "Tea Parties and Selfishness", Oklahoma Gazette, May 6/09 2. Aquinas Heard, untitled, AJC, May 14/09 3. Amesh Adalja, Drug Opinion Correct, Butler Eagle, May 18/09. 4. Amesh Adalja, "Southern Hemisphere Influenza Vaccine in American Samoa?", Journal of Travel Medicine, May-June 2009 5. Henry Solomon, untitled, Barons, May 25/09 6. Amesh Adalja, Drug policy change needed, Butler Eagle, May 28/09 Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

April 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of April's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Amit Ghate, Ayn Rand as “Prophet”, Pajamas Media, Apr 13/09 2. Linn and Ari Armstrong, See you at the Grand Junction Tea Party, Grand Junction Free Press, Apr 13/09 3. Joseph Kellard, "Tea time", Long Beach Herald, Apr 22/09 4. Linn and Ari Armstrong, After tea, try long, cool drink of liberty, Grand Junction Free Press, Apr 27/09 Citations or Links 1. Rory Hodgson, "Citywire joins G20 protestors", Citywire, Apr 2/09 Letters to the Editor 1. Tim Peck, Untitled, Asheville Citizen Times, Apr 1, 2009 2. Amesh Adalja, "Carnegie Mellon Privileged to Call Acker Faculty", The Tartan, Mar 30, 09 3. Sylvia Bokor, "Attacks on Freedom", Las Vegas Review Journal, Apr 8/09 4. Justin Ketterer, "Typical Baseless Criticism", Covington News, Apr 10/09 5. Amesh Adalja, "Restrictions on compensation for donors should be lifted", The Tartan, Apr 6/09 6. Amesh Adalja, "Woman is Primary Patient", Butler Eagle, Apr 13/09 7. Rob Abiera, "The rational egotist", The Oklahoman, Apr 14/09 8. Brendan Moore, "Self-interest a principle for U.S.", Naperville Sun, Apr 16/09 9. Brendan Moore, "Free speech doesn't guarantee soapbox", Daily Herald, Apr 17/09 10. Doug Krening, Untitled, Denver Post, Apr 18/09 11. Brendan Moore, "Self-interest a principle for U.S." ", Daily Herald, Apr 18/09 12. Amesh Adalja, "Freedom From Religion", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Apr 22/09 13. Amesh Adalja, "We must apply rational solutions", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Apr 23/09 14. Amesh Adalja, "Support for embryonic stem cell research is necessary, but not because embryos are protected by the Constitution", The Tartan, Apr 20/09 15. Alan McKendree. "Questioning Earth Week", Daily Texan, Apr 22/09 16. Paul Hsieh, "Taking guns won't hike safety", Colorado Springs Gazette, Apr 24/09 17. Amesh Adalja, "Health Care isn't a right", Butler Eagle, Apr 28/09 18. Sylvia Bokor, "Big Government Brews Protest", Albuquerque Journal, Apr 9/09 Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

March 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of March's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Paul Hsieh, "Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Protests", PajamasMedia.com, Mar 02/09 2. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Political controls provoke producers to go on strike", Grand Junction Free Press, Mar 2/09 3. Joseph Kellard, "Celebrate Individualism, Not Ethnicity", Long Beach Herald, Mar 1/09 4. Paul Hsieh, "Health Insurance Industry Sells Its Soul to the Devil", PajamasMedia.com, Mar 22/09 5. Lucy Hugel, National service bill makes 'volunteerism' compulsory, Patriot News, Mar 30/09 6. Linn and Ari Armstrong,"Everyone is welcome at Hamburger Mary’s", Grand Junction Free Press, Mar 30/09 Citations or Links 1. Amit Ghate, OC Register, LTE cited in Generational logic, Mar 6/09 2. Ari Armstrong, Denver CBS 4, "Beer Smash protest", Mar 13/09. 3. Ari Armstrong cited in "Beer Bill Not Dead?", Denver Daily News, Mar 16/09 4. Rory Hodgson, cited in "Capitalists fight back at G20", Evening Standard, Mar 31/09 Letters to the Editor 1. Amesh Adalja, "Viewpoint is emotion driven", Butler Eagle, Mar 2/09 2. Amit Ghate, “Contract Complexities”, OC Register, Mar 3/09 3. Amesh Adalja, "End the drug war", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Mar 4/09 4. Ari Armstrong, "Legislator’s comments on promiscuous women", Denver Post, Mar 4/09. 5. Susan Harbison, "Knowing nature", The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Feb 28/09 6. Aquinas Heard, LTE, AJC, Mar 4/09 7. Jay Robbins, "Robbins: We're better off without President Obama's ideas for 'change'", Valley Breeze, Mar 19/09 8. Rob Abiera, LTE, Oklahoma Gazette, Mar 18/09 9. Benjamin Skipper, "Government can't be economic engine", Flint Journal, Mar 22/09 10. Amesh Adalja, "Rethink U.S. drug laws", Butler Eagle, Mar 23/09 11. Roberto Sarrionandia, Turning the lights out is an attack on civilisation, Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar 26/09 12. Paul Hsieh, "Our Health, and the Health of Insurers", New York Times, Mar 30/09 Media Appearances 1. Ari Armstrong on Mike McConnell's radio show re: "Low-Carb Food Stamp Diet.", Mar 4/09 Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

February 2009 OActivist Compilation

Here's a list of February's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Salazar promotes special-interest warfare", Grand Junction Free Press, Feb 2/09 2. Amit Ghate, "Stop the Assault on Our Public Markets", Capitalism Magazine, Feb 3/09 3. Paul Hsieh, "Obama's Regulatory Chief Believes in Paternalistic Government", PajamasMedia.com, Feb 10/09 4. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you drive", Grand Junction Free Press, Feb 16/09 5. Ari Armstrong, "Food Thoughts", Boulder Weekly, Feb 19/09 6. Paul Hsieh, "America doesn't need a 'health care czar'", DC Examiner, Feb 23/09 Citations or Links 1. Paul Hsieh TOS article in the Heartland Institute's "Mandatory Health Insurance Fails in Theory and in Massachusetts" 2. Paul Hsieh Editorial (6) on Little Green Footballs 3. Ari Armstrong cited in, "Chowing down on Ari Armstrong's low-carb food-stamp diet", Denver Westworld, Feb 11/09. 4. Ari Armstrong cited in, "Double Standard", Rocky Mountain News, Feb 20/09. 5. Ari Armstrong, Colorado 9 News, "Low carb food stamp challenge", Feb 23/09. (TV appearance) Letters to the Editor 1. Amesh Adalja, "Preserve Abortion Rights", Butler Eagle (PA), Feb 4/09 2. John F. Schmidley , "Africa Needs Property Rights, Christian Science Monitor, Feb 11/09 3. Alexander Hrin, "Re: Please Raise My Taxes", NY Times, Feb 10/09 4. Amesh Adalja, "Universal Darwin", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb 11/09 5. Hannah Krening, "LTE", Denver Post, Feb 11/09 6. Roberto Sarrionandia, "Dictators", Daily Mail (UK), Feb 5/09 7. Grant Jones, "LTE", Kansas State Collegian, Feb 20/09 8. Gordon Wood, "They're lazy Christians", Winnipeg Free Press, Feb 14/09 9. Raman Gupta, "Letter of the Week", Avweb, Feb 16/09 10. Paul Hsieh, "Single-payer health care has failed in every other country", Rocky Mountain News, Feb 18/09 11. Paul Hsieh, "Heads they win, tails we lose", Rocky Mountain News, Feb 19/09. 12. Joseph Kellard, "Re: Can We Spend Our Way to Recovery?", NY Times, Feb 21/09 13. Amesh Adalja, "Remedial Lessons", Pittsburgh City Paper, Feb 25/09 14. Ari Armstrong, "No food stamp soup for you!", Denver Westworld, Feb 19/09. 15. Richard Watts, "Lincoln did not value unity above liberty", Rocky Mountain News, Feb 23/09. Note too that this list does not include web comments, letters to congressmen and other politicians, radio show call-ins, etc., all of which actively spread our message and advance our goals. (Disclaimer: All content listed herein is self-identified as "Objectivist", I have not vetted the content, nor do I necessarily agree with all of it.)

January 2009 Compilation

Here's a list of January's published output by members of the OActivist list (most of whom have full-time jobs and only write when time permits): Editorials 1. Paul Hsieh, "Polis vs. Polis on Cars and Health Care", Boulder Daily Camera, Dec 28/08 2. Linn and Ari Armstrong, "Shut Down Corporate Welfare for Tourism", Grand Junction's Free Press, Jan 5/09 3. Richard Parker, "The "Federal Health Board:" Another Scheme to Ration Healthcare", Capitalism Magazine, Jan 6/09 4. Paul Hsieh, "Universal healthcare and the waistline police", Christian Science Monitor, Jan 7/09 5. Ray Niles, "More Regulation Will Only Make Things Worse", CFA Magazine Jan-Feb 2009 6. Ari Armstrong, "Independent Ideas: Free our beer", Colorado Daily, Jan 25/09 Citations or Links 1. Paul Hsieh editorial (4) on ABC News web site 2. Paul Hsieh editorial (4) on Instapundit 3. Paul Hsieh TOS article in the Washington DC Examiner 4. Paul Hsieh TOS article in the San Francisco Examiner Letters to the Editor 1. Amesh Adalja, "U.S. drug strategies wrong", Butler Eagle (PA), Dec 16/08 2. Paul Hsieh, "GOP's 'social conservatism' alienates young Republicans", Christian Science Monitor, Dec 17/08 3. Paul Hsieh, "Three Big Problems With Obama's Health-Care Plan", WSJ, Dec 21/08 4. Amesh Adalja, "Drug warfare", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Dec 22/08 5. Brian Tinker, "Believes plan 'political pragmatism'", Stow Sentry, Dec 17/08 6. Brian Tinker, "Public-works plan oils squeaky wheel", Toledo Blade, Dec 22/08 7. Tim Peck, "Economic woes are the result of regulation and intervention", Asheville Citizen-Times, Dec 28/08 8. Amesh Adalja, "Decriminalize 2 drugs", Butler Eagle (PA), Dec 29/08 9. Amesh Adalja, "New approach is needed", Butler Eagle (PA), Dec 30/08 10. Amit Ghate, "End 'redistribution' scams", Orange County Register, Dec 31/08 11. Paul Hsieh, "'Concierge' model offers a free market solution", Baltimore Sun, Jan 2/09 12. Amesh Adalja, "U.S. not free-market nation", Butler Eagle (PA), Jan 6/09 13. Ari Armstrong, "Economic grief started with Hoover, not FDR", Denver Post, Jan 7/09 14. Gina Liggett, "Science adviser pick is pure politics", Rocky Mountain News, Jan 6/09 15. Richard Parker, "Health-care choice", Washington Times, Jan 12/09 16. Tim Peck, "Letʼs hear it for capitalism", Mountain Xpress, Jan 14/09 17. Amesh Adalja, "Drug war illogic", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Jan 16/09 18. Joseph Kellard, "Rand attackers are usually gratuitous", Smokey Mountain News (NC), Jan 14/09 19. Amesh Adalja, "The U.S. isn't a true free-market system", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Jan 19/09 20. John Cshmidley, "Presidents must defend our rights", Christian Science Monitor, Jan 22/09 21. Paul Hsieh, "Individual Responsibility", Colorado Springs Gazette, Jan 22/09 22. Amesh Adalja, "LTE", Pitt News, Jan 23/09 23. Roberto Sarrionandia, "LTE", UK Daily Telegraph, Jan 26/09 24. Sidney August Cammeresi, "Important moral question about evil of central banking", Dec 24/08 25. Roger Parian, "LTE", Savannah Morning News, Jan 30/09 26. Roberto Sarrionandia, "LTE", Welsh Mail, Jan 28/09 (Note that I've included a few items from Dec, but going forward there will be one post per month with only that month's publications listed.)