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Stossel: Who Owns Your Body?
By: Barry Belmont

Our next meeting, The Sanctity of Human Life, is going to be great. Might as well get the debate started with this short clip from Stossel exploring the issue of legal prostitution:   Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

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A Typical Meeting Setup for the UNR Students for Liberty
By: John Russell

We brought in our first campus discussion in style, once again, with Islamophobia. Thanks to the many who attended!

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A ‘Prayer’ for Egypt (from the people you expect to spell it ‘Moslem’)
By: Barry Belmont

It’s remarkable that people can have literally the best intentions possible (for instance wishing to prevent WWIII) and yet with the wrong set of thoughts, facts, and theories about the universe come off as crazy, slightly prejudicial, and at the very least, a little silly. This is a video of a Christian woman asking for [...]

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The Rules of Intelligent Discussions
By: Barry Belmont

After having argued a great deal of hot air out of myself in our Campus Discussions, I’ve come to discover that there are certain modes of debate which simply are not conducive to intelligent discussion. This includes things like talking with someone who is unwilling to be convinced or unconvinced of a position and simply [...]

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Campus Discussion: Diversity
By: Barry Belmont

Oh. My. Goodness…

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Campus Discussion – Intellectual Property Rights
By: Travis Hagen

Meeting: Intellectual Property Rights – Here we go again. We are revisiting one of our most divisive meetings to date and determining, once and for all, whether copyrights and patents are justifiable/necessary within a libertarian society. How is a modern society to deal with the exclusivity of information? We hope to find out. Where: JCSU 317 [...]

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Campus Discussions - “Victimless” Crimes
By: John Russell
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Campus Discussion – A Libertarian Crash Course
By: Travis Hagen

Meeting: A Libertarian Crash Course – Join the UNR Students for Liberty’s first meeting of the year where we will be discussing the basic principles of libertarinism, free markets, and what the club is all about. Where: JCSU 423 When: 7PM – 8:30PM on Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Campus Discussions: File Sharing
By: John Russell

Are copyrights legitimate or just government protectionism? What about digital rights and file sharing? Is this theft?  Come find out! Tonight, 7:00 PM in JCSU 332 (Tentative meeting location)

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Campus Discussion – Worst Presidents
By: Travis Hagen

For our third Campus Discussion we will be discussing presidents. In the history of these United States, there have been presidents whom have inspired our respect and have indelibly shaped mankind for the better…  But who gives a crap about them?  At this meeting we will be discussing Lincoln’s fascism and Bush’s incompetence.  Come with your [...]

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