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Dear WiR Reader, Due to my laptop crashing (and the ongoing recovery process), TOS’s Week in Review will not be published this Sunday. We apologize for the lapse and will resume next Sunday. Sincerely, Craig Biddle

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 24, 2011 The Syrian Rebels’ Efforts and America’s Self-Interest Will Libya be Obama’s Vietnam? Phantom Federal Budget “Cuts” Peter Schiff: S&P Late to The Party . . . Once Again The United Nations “Climate Refugee” Prediction . . . D’oh! 1. The Syrian Rebels’…

I recently spoke with entrepreneur Sean Saulsbury about his work for TOS as a reader and producer of audio articles, and his other endeavors. Daniel Wahl: Thanks for taking time to chat with me, Sean. Sean Saulsbury: My pleasure. DW: To give our readers an idea of who the man…

Exploit the Earth or die: It's not a threat. It's a fact.

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 17, 2011 1. Atlas Shrugged Opens in Theaters Across America A movie version of Ayn Rand’s masterpiece Atlas Shrugged opened in more than 300 theatres last Friday and is receiving a great deal of attention, positive and negative. Sales of…

Topic for 2011: Atlas Shrugged and Conflicts of Interest Among Rational Men In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand dramatizes the principle that "there are no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned . . . men who neither make sacrifices nor accept them." Elucidate and…

The Green Movement in Iran, which arose in 2009 when the regime rigged the presidential “elections” to keep Ahmadinejad in place, has been struggling—with no moral support from the Obama administration—to free the Iranian people from the religious dictatorship that oppresses them. Because the Iranian regime is the main state…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 10, 2011 1. The Budget Showdown The top story of the week is that Republicans in Congress—having been elected in large part on their promise to cut this year’s federal spending by $100 billion—and having then retreated to $61 billion—finally…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending April 3, 2011 1. Islamist Fantasies toward Future Atrocities FrontPage Magazine reports that the Iranian government has produced a “documentary” claiming that “Ayatollah Khamenei, President Ahmadinejad, and Hassan Nasrallah are talked about in Islamic prophecy as leaders who will wage war…

With a showdown over the budget looming, The Tea Party has one clear message to the GOP: "Cut it or shut it." As the Washington Times reports: [H]undreds of tea partyers gathered across the street from the Capitol for a “Continuing Revolution” rally, sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots, where…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 27, 2011 1. Crappy Birthday, ObamaCare On the anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare, Pete Du Pont provides a summary of the political and economic havoc the law has wreaked and will wreak, and he calls for its repeal. Unfortunately,…

Noteworthy news and opinion items from the week ending March 20, 2011 Another Selfless War… The biggest news item of the past week is that the Obama administration has entered the United States into yet another selfless war, this one with Libya. The administration has done so not with the…

Just as a substantial number of Americans are coming to recognize the injustice of forcing people to fund NPR, Lee Bollinger—the President of Columbia University—has written an article in Bloomberg calling for the government to force cable companies to broadcast the Al Jazeera network. This is insane. The U.S. government…

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last week, anti-technology opportunists all over the world are racing to leverage the disaster. In particular, they’re claiming that the problems in Japan’s nuclear reactors prove the excessive danger of nuclear energy. Another Chernobyl, we’re told, could be moments…

The print edition of the Spring issue is at press and will be mailed shortly; the online, e-book, and audio versions will be accessible to subscribers beginning March 20, 25, and 30 respectively; and the Kindle edition will be delivered to Kindle subscribers on March 30. For promotional purposes, we’ve…