POLITICS

Individualism, Not Group Identity Politics, Is the Answer To America’s Crisis
We must judge ourselves and others by the content of our character, not by the color of our skin, our gender, socio-economic class, or any other group characteristic.
Economic Freedom in America: What is Economic Freedom?
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred,…
Penny-Wise Politics: Class Envy and CEO Pay
Congress is never more ridiculous than when it tries to look like it is serious. In the midst of a major national financial crisis, what was one of the first things Congress zeroed in on? The pay of Chief Executive Officers of financial institutions. If all those CEOs…
An Open Letter to Members of Congress on the Financial Mess
Dear Members of Congress: On September 16 [2008] I sent a letter to my congressman, and to other senior US government officials, that consisted of three sentences: “I oppose all bailouts of financial institutions by the US government. Government…
Key Points on a “Rescue” Plan From A Healthy Bank’s Perspective
Here is a letter by John Allison, President & CEO of BB&T, that was sent to every member of Congress. Dear Senator/Congressman/Representative: BB&T is a $136 billion multi-state banking company. We have 1,500 branches throughout the mid-Atlantic…
Single-Payer Health Care: Immoral and Hazardous to Patients’ Health
In “Fact and Fiction: Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System”[1], Sarpel et al presume “an obligation to provide healthcare to those who need it.” This faulty moral premise underlies all forms of socialized medicine (including the…
CULTURE

Marxism/Socialism: An Introduction
Marxism/Socialism is a philosophy conceived in gross error and ignorance about the nature of capitalism, above all about the nature of the relationship between capitalists, profits, and wages.
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MARKETS

The Myth of Profit Making as Exploitation
Pursuing self-interest in business is not exploitative, because it can only be based on voluntary trade.
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WORLD
Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez: Castro’s Mini-Me
‘One darned thing after another’: That’s how former Secretary of State Dean Acheson once defined foreign policy. The latest “darned thing” for the United States is Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez. For no apparent reason, the…
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LAW

Edward Snowden vs. Fascism
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man’s only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old ex-CIA technician who has come forward to self-identify as the source for news reports about massive…
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SCI-TECH
“Endangered Species” Cost USA Billions
At a time when this nation is engaged in a war, putting the lives of its soldiers in harm’s way to end the threat of Middle Eastern terrorism, it would seem inconceivable that it would also be wasting billions to protect some species of salmon or the shortnose…
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