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Sometimes I think these blog posts could be marked with a Siskel & Ebert -style ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ system, where so often I’m merely indicating my approval or disapproval of what some pundit or other is saying in the mainstream press. If we did have that system in place, ...

The Anglican church is in trouble. The church, which has 80 million members worldwide, has become increasingly liberal and thus increasingly diverse. Its members believe a wide variety of things, a fact which is ultimately spelling disaster for the denomination. I began to ponder about why the synchronizing of beliefs ...

Well as you can see below, I’ve started using Twitter. “About time,” some people have said. What can I say? Now you’ll always know what I’m up to, thinking about or doing on the radio by looking at my ‘tweets’ on the lefthand sidebar here at John-Wright.Net (it also updates ...

So, by way of update: in this little post I asked whether the hype over the new Batman movie was really deserved, and in particular whether the applause for Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker was merited or whether it was colored by the fact that he’s six feet under. ...

As regular readers will know, I have a huge problem with the TV Licence Fee in the UK, which forces all TV-watchers in the UK to pay the salaries and operations of the BBC; which, as I’ve long said, is merely one broadcaster among many in the UK broadcasting market. ...

“Assessing the significance of the film�s adult themes is trickier. In a way Stanton�s insistence that his film is not political makes it more worrying. If he had made a heavy-handed film with a crude propaganda message it could be easily dismissed. But Stanton seems to have simply picked up ...

Love Brendan O’Neill. This article is nothing short of a straight home run against Moonbeam George Monbiot, a columnist in the Guardian with whom we’ve taken much issue in the past on this very blog (john-wright.net search term ‘Monbiot‘). By analyzing Monbiot’s past, we understand his present, and it’s quite ...

Wanted Good, and with Angelina Jolie to boot. My current computer desktop picture (or ‘wallpaper’ for you poor Windows users) is a still from this movie featuring the back of a wet, topless Angelina replete with some great ink. The subject is interesting: a fraternity of assassins recruits a normal, ...

Traditional rock climbing = a challenge. Stone Nudes = flat-out magnificent. No ropes, no gear, no clothes. Naked fingers and feet grasp cold, hard rock, and the result is spectacular, aesthetic and dramatic. “”This kind of climbing is the sport at its purest, and is intended to inspire and celebrate ...

Once again, Penn Says it as well as I could. Penn Jillette is proving to be a libertarian after my own heart; I agree with him almost always, and – more importantly – I agree with him for the same reasons almost always (that is a dedication to libertarian principles). ...

Yikes! The readers of the LA Times opinion section are ruthlessly tearing apart Amy Payne’s Blowback “rebutting” my article on porn; maybe I don’t even have to respond myself?! In response to her article Porn isn’t normal, commenter “HaHaHA” says: “Amy Payne a 20 yr old Morman student knows what ...

Another response to my critique of the case against Kozinski in the LA Times Blowback section was published HERE today. “Porn isn’t normal: rebutting John Stagliano and John Wright” is an anti-porn article, which I’m happy to respond to (even though defending porn, per se, wasn’t the intent of my ...

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See here for Klien’s book on the subject.

In this clip, Newt Gingrich provides 3 ways to reduce our high energy prices (and in particular the high price of gasoline). His opinion on this echoes mine exactly, only much more articulately. Let nobody be in any doubt that the entity coming between US consumers and reasonably-priced energy is ...

The asinine suggestion that gun manufacturers should be coerced into coming up with ways to reduce murder rates “or else” comes in the form of an essay from Jeffrey Fagan and Stephen D. Sugarman, university professors at Columbia and UC Berkley respectively. I say “asinine” because I find the very ...

A link to a great article at Reason.com which sets out – from a libertarian perspective – the historic judgment of the US Supreme Court yesterday in favor of gun rights and clarifying that the Second Amendment does confer an individual right to keep and bear arms, not only a ...

…goes freedom’s way! The Supreme Court has had the sense and fortitude to uphold the right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms, and struck down a ban on handguns in Washington D.C. This is the landmark case I discussed here…. more on the decision, and reaction, forthcoming.