By Tibor Machan: Freedom New Mexico columnist Often those who study the history of philosophy and compare it to the history of other disciplines, especially science, complain that in philosophy no progress is made, that philosophers keep talking about the same thing, that nothing ever gets resolved. It appears clear that in each age most […]
Freedom for all main philosophy of late founder
November 26, 2006
In a long life of 91 years, R.C. Hoiles saw it all. From the “rugged individualism” that still marked America at the time of his birth on Nov. 24, 1878, to the rise of socialist and communist ideas and policies in the 1920s and 1930s – especially in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia – to […]
Terrorists should think, not vent just vent
February 1, 2006
By Tibot Machan: Syndicated Columnist The Jan. 30 edition of the New Republic contains a fascinating and alarming piece — maybe it’s a parody, but it sounds mighty authentic to my ears — by Ali Salem, “The War of the Hotels,” which appeared in the London-based Al Hayat, a pan-Arab daily. The piece relates — […]
Judicial candidate unlikely to shake Supreme Court
October 5, 2005
Freedom Newspapers Appointing Supreme Court justices these days is like taking your life’s savings to Las Vegas and putting it all on one spin of the roulette wheel. That’s the first thing to keep in mind with President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court, which already has received some serious criticism […]
Dignity in death can soothe survivors
May 9, 2005
By Tibor Machan: Syndicated Columnist My friend David L. Norton, whose 1976 book “Personal Destinies, A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism” should have been more famous than any that John Rawls and other celebrities in the discipline of philosophy had written, wrote beautifully and wisely about aging. He gave credit for the germ of his idea […]
Neumann, Regina “Gina”
December 15, 2003
Regina “Gina” Hedwig Neumann, 75, of Clovis died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. She was born on Jan. 20, 1928, in Clovis to Kalil and Hedwig Scholz Saykally. She married Calvin Neumann on April 30, 1955, in Clovis. She was a retired business person. She owned Clovis Hobby House, […]
Senate confirms Clovis judge
July 14, 2003
By Darrell Todd Maurina Robert Brack said he never planned to be an attorney. He never planned to become a state district court judge. And he certainly never planned to become a federal judge. So Brack, 50, said he could hardly believe the U.S. Senate voted Monday afternoon to confirm him for a new federal […]
