For the third quarter of 2011, Front Range Objectivism (FRO) members continued their activism and publishing.
In particular, FRO members published the following at the regional and national level:
OpEds: 18
LTEs: 7
Articles: 1
Radio/Television Appearances: 2
Lectures/Panels: 3
Some of the topics covered include free speech, Harry Potter, Steve Jobs, health care, and the US credit downgrade.
Much of this writing was done by people working in their spare time, in addition to their day jobs.
This list does not include citations in local and national media, participation in Tea Party events, letters to elected officials, postings to Facebook and Twitter, and blogging.
I’d like to thank my fellow FRO activists for their hard work during these past three months. If I have inadvertently omitted someone’s piece, please let me know so I can update this tally.
The detailed list of our Q3 2011 published output includes the following:
OpEds: 18
Brian T. Schwartz, “Gov. Hickenlooper’s Veto of SB 213 Insults Low-Income Parents”, Huffington Post, 7/6/2011.Ari Armstrong, “Harry Potter explores life’s big questions”, Boulder Weekly, 7/6/2011
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Stop the hatchet job on medical marijuana shops”, Grand Junction Free Press, 7/8/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care”, PajamasMedia, 7/11/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Left and right assault free speech”, Grand Junction Free Press, 7/22/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Corporations aren’t people, so stop taxing them”, Grand Junction Free Press, 8/5/2011.
Ari Armstrong, “Reaction to Lamborn’s “tar baby” comment is typical GOP-bashing”, Denver Post, 8/7/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “Don’t Shoot the Downgrade Messenger”, PajamasMedia, 8/9/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Rights violations, nihilism underlie today’s bad news”, Grand Junction Free Press, 8/19/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “How ObamaCare Plays Games with Your Life”, PajamasMedia, 9/1/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Our nation needs shared liberty, not sacrifice”, Grand Junction Free Press, 9/2/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “Let’s Model ObamaJobs After ObamaCare!”, PajamasMedia, 9/7/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “My iPad and My Hip Fracture”, KevinMD.com, 9/12/2011.
Paul Hsieh and Michelle Minton, “Durbin’s Bill is Dietary Paternalism”, Human Events, 9/13/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Obama’s unprincipled class warfare endangers the nation”, Grand Junction Free Press, 9/16/2011.
Ari Armstrong, “Health Insurance and Personal Responsibility”, PajamasMedia, 9/24/2011.
Ari Armstrong, “Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Social Contract’ an Ideological Fantasy”, PajamasMedia, 9/28/2011.
Linn and Ari Armstrong, “Prop. 103 would hurt working families, kill jobs”, Grand Junction Free Press, 9/16/2011.
LTEs: 7
Brian Schwartz, “Red-light cameras can blame drivers for poor traffic engineering”, Boulder Daily Camera, 7/2/2011.Paul Hsieh, “Liberator, Not Thief”, Boston Globe, 7/12/2011.
Brian Schwartz, “Debt ceiling & reducing deficit without raising taxes”, Boulder Daily Camera, 7/16/2011.
Brian Schwartz, “Colorado Sex Offender Act imposes excessive penalties, more economical alternatives exist”, Boulder Daily Camera, 7/30/2011.
Paul Hsieh, “Thank You, Steve Jobs”, American Thinker, 8/25/2011.
Brian Schwartz, “My advice to college students”, Boulder Daily Camera, 8/27/2011.
Brian Schwartz, “Paul Krugman’s space aliens won’t create jobs, repealing health control law will”, Boulder Daily Camera, 9/10/2011.
Articles: 1
Ari Armstrong, “Religion in Harry Potter: Do J. K. Rowling’s novels promote religion or undermine it?”, eSkeptic, 7/13/2011.
Radio/Television Appearances: 2
Ari Armstrong, “Congressman Lamborn and ‘Tar Baby” attack
Peter Boyles Show, KHOW 630, 8/4/2011.Diana Hsieh, “Labor Day”, Jonathan Hoenig (aka “Capitalist Pig”), WLS 890, 9/5/2011.
Lectures/Panels: 3
Ari Armstrong, “Religion and the Values of Harry Potter”, Mile High Skeptics, 8/1/2011.Ari Armstrong, “Ayn Rand as Atheist”, SkeptiCamp, 8/27/2011.
Diana Hsieh, “Christianity vs. Capitalism”, SkeptiCamp, 8/27/2011.
