Sillygisms
Updated from the version published June 11, 2000 at KeepAndBearArms.com As the author of two books on the “gun rights” issue, I must conclude that I have been less successful than I had hoped in...
View ArticleClassic J. Neil: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself …”
Published September 19, 2001 — a week after the 9/11 attacks — in The Sierra Times A lot of people whose only exposure to history is from sound bytes are familiar with the phrase “the only thing we...
View ArticleClassic J. Neil: The Pitchman and the Oracle
Originally published in 1996 on The World According to J. Neil Schulman Are you a bigot? It won’t surprise me if you don’t think so. Bigotry, to most people, means intolerance of, or discrimination...
View ArticleClassic J. Neil: Medical Technocracy
Originally published in 1995 on The World According to J. Neil Schulman If you hang around fringe political movements, as I’ve done for the last quarter century, you’re constantly getting a sense of...
View ArticleClassic J. Neil: Justifiable Insanity
Originally published March 9, 2001 in The Sierra Times In “I, Mudd,” a famous episode of the original Star Trek, a robot is confused into burning out its circuits by being given a logical paradox of...
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The Twilight Zone: “Profile in Silver”
This is excerpted from my book Profile In Silver And Other Screenwritings (Pulpless.Com, 1999). – JNS I got the idea for “Profile in Silver” while driving to a lunch meeting with Robert Jaffe of Vista...
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The Repossessed
“The Repossessed” was first performed in a dramatized reading on February 26, 1984 before the Libertarian Supper Club of Los Angeles under the title “The Psychopath.” It first appeared in its current...
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A Shadow on the Second Amendment
I’m reprinting this for a second time here from the July 15, 2009 issue of The New Gun Week. Gabrielle Giffords The assassination attempt made yesterday on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ) is exactly...
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The Libertarian Case for IP
Summary: “Ideas” can’t be property. “Information objects” may be property but information as such can’t be property. Only things can be owned. If a thing can be copied then it’s a thing. Property...
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Classic J. Neil: The Pitchman and the Oracle
This article was published on The World According to J. Neil Schulman in 1996. My treatment of inadvertent “spamming” is long outdated; but I reprint this article here because the fundamental truth...
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