Archive | April, 2009

As the issue of health care reform builds to a legislative climax, it is important that we not merely parrot the same kinds of proposals we have seen for the past 50 years. A Point of View writer on [the Raleigh News-Observer] lamented that “after a half-century of attempted reform” we have not reached the [...]

Here’s a fascinating quote attributed to online writer Paul E. Marek: “The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians  who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible  for the murder of about 20 million people. The [...]

Dr. John Lewis, who gave the stirring speech at the Charlotte Tea Party on April 15th (video; text) granted an interview to the Ohio Objectivist Society to discuss the impact of his speech, his new book, the future of the country, and other topics. How positive was the response to your Charlotte Tea Party speech? [...]

It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been happening in recent times in the United States, and in Western civilization in general, suggests that survival is taking a back seat to the shibboleths of political correctness. We have already turned loose dozens of captured [...]

A civilized society’s first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions and moral values. Behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not [...]

It looks like the “intelligence” in the Obama administration isn’t too intellectual. Instead of using the word “terrorism” to describe things such as the terrorist attack on 9/11, Janet Napolitano, head of Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, says we’re now supposed to use the words “man-caused disasters.” That sounds like a wreck at the Indy [...]

Government intervention is once again wreaking havoc on the U.S. financial system and the economic security of millions of Americans–a tragic replay of previous crises. In 2008

Texas Gov. Rick Perry rattled cages when he suggested that Texans might at some point become so disgusted with Washington’s gross violation of the U.S. Constitution that they would want to secede from the union. Political hustlers, their media allies and others, who have little understanding, are calling his remarks treasonous. Let’s look at it. [...]