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(Continued from Part 1,) Fifth, I believe that people are the most valuable creation on the planet for religious and practical reasons. The more people we have, the more knowledge they generate and can apply. I believe the growth of knowledge, personal freedom, and rule of law are the significant causes of mankind rising out of historical poverty. Great books like The Ultimate Resource 2, by Julian Simon, and Superabundance, by Gale Pooley and Marian L. Tupy, hammer home the fact that increased populations have increased prosperity. This is very counter to conventional wisdom because Malthusian thinking has warped much…

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On October 21, 1520, Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reached Cape Virgenes after transiting the Strait of Magellan between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, thus becoming the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific. — October 21, 1803: English scientist John Dalton read his paper “On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other Liquids” to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. This was the first outline of his landmark atomic theory. — And on October 21, 1915: The first transatlantic radiotelephone message was transmitted from Arlington, Virginia, to Paris. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry…

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Armed Citizen® Today A July road-rage incident ended when the armed victim opened fire on his assailant, stopping the man’s assault and leading to his death. The early-morning incident began when, at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 6, when the 35-year-old driver of an Audi overtook a Prius and forced the car up onto a curb after pursuing it for two blocks. The driver of the Audi then exited his vehicle, armed with a metal baseball bat, approached the Prius and began striking the driver’s side door of the car with the bat. The driver of the Prius, fearing for…

Sturm, Ruger & Co. is making friends all over the place. For, in manufacturing as in life, who you know can be just as important as what you know. Quickly proving that the company’s partnership with Magpul to design and produce the capable RXM 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol was no mere one-off, Ruger introduced the second member of its burgeoning RX series of intra-industry collaborations at this year’s NRA Annual Meetings with the announcement of the two-model RXD suppressor line. And, yet again, Ruger’s choice of dance partner illustrates just how much care and deliberation the gunmaker is putting…

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