This is probably why the Ayn Rand Institute, that flagship of right moral political philosophy, migrated its support from the gold standard to a system of free banking with private currencies.

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Health care reform right now tends to be built on the philosophy of making a whole bunch of micro-improvements and hoping the sum total of them somehow magically improves care.

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In a new Quinnipiac University poll, 32 percent of Virginia voters said Cuccinelli's political philosophy is "about right, " while 29 percent said he is too conservative and 5 percent said he is too liberal.

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With the new pope being himself a trained scientist -- Francis graduated as a chemical technician before moving on to study philosophy, psychology and theology -- the timing could be right for a new era of cooperation between the Vatican and science, building on the work of the STOQ Project -- Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest -- which was created by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

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But I hope that we could understand also that in most cases, the president of the United States -- and I felt this way when President Clinton was president -- should have the right to choose members of his team and people he feels can best employ his philosophy.

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