Author Archive | Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook gives a rousing speech at the Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit 2011 on 2/25/2011. His speech focuses on the idea that freedom lies in stresses a single, fundamental principle, the principle of individual rights, rather than vague terms such as fiscal responsibility (can be done through taxation) or limited government (can suggest [...]

Government intervention in medicine is wrecking American health care. Nearly half of all spending on health care in America is already government spending. Yet President Obama’s “reforms” will only expand that intervention. Prior to the government’s entrance into medicine, health care was regarded as a product to be traded voluntarily on a free market–no different [...]

On the 50th anniversary of its publication, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s epic about a group of businessmen who rebel against a society that shackles and condemns them, is everywhere. Hardly a day goes by without a mention of the novel in the media or by some prominent celebrity or businessman as the most significant book [...]

The House of Representatives recently passed the “say on pay” bill proposed by Congressman Barney Frank. The bill forces all corporations to allow shareholders a non-binding vote on CEO compensation. The idea is to shame directors into lowering CEO pay, which the bill’s supporters claim is out of control. Although the bill is touted as [...]

Both the Democrats and Republicans are wrong about what to do now in the Iraq war. The Democrats want to retreat immediately and the Republicans want to “stay the course.” Neither proposal will make America safe from Islamic terrorism. As Republicans have noted, withdrawal at this time would be perceived by the Islamic fundamentalists as [...]

On August 6, 1945, American airmen detonated a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, and three days later dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki. The bombs are estimated to have killed almost 300,000, most of them civilians. Despite paroxysms of America-bashing by our professional intellectuals on the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings, America should be [...]

Over a year ago the United States introduced and the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling for “a region where two states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders.” A Palestinian state run by Yasser Arafat will not deliver long-awaited “salvation” for Palestinians; it would only bring them more [...]

Should a random passersby be able to dictate the color of your house? The Lake Tahoe Regional Planning agency is advancing this and other assaults on property owners living around Lake Tahoe. A recent 12-to-1 vote by the agency recommends a swarm of new regulations mandating that homes near the lake be smaller and less [...]

As yet another appalling suicide bombing takes place in Israel, killing 19 people and wounding dozens more on a bus packed with schoolchildren in Jerusalem – as Hamas claims credit for the massacre – America’s policymakers still insist on seeking an “even-handed,” diplomatic solution. In the past 18 months, Israel’s six million citizens have suffered [...]