POLITICS
How To Create Social Conflict: Let The Government Decide
The prime feature of political decision-making is that it’s a zero-sum game.
Sam Harris Versus the Self-Made Man
Sam Harris recently published an article in The Huffington Post entitled "A New Year's Resolution for the Rich" in it, he says: "...devotees of self-reliance rail against those who would receive entitlements of various sorts -- health care,...
What Obama Fears Most
The thing about liberal socialists, or anybody who's wrong, is that they hate dissension. Dissension reminds them that there are such things as reason, facts and logic. Case in point: Barack Obama. He recently stated, "What we can't do is refight the battles of the...
Stupid and Stingy: How the Left and Right See Each Other
The Left "explains" the Right's attachment to its ideas as being due to stupidity. The Right "explains" the Left's attachment to its ideas as being due to personal evil.Example of Leftist "explanations" of the Right: at a party, shortly after the failure of American...
CULTURE
A “Free” Education For You, Forcibly Paid For By Someone Else
Government force does not lead to high quality education. It leads to expensive and mediocre education.
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WORLD
Fidel Castro: The Charmer and the Torturer
A gaggle of gullible women from Seattle flew to Havana last week to meet with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. They found him "charming" and "eloquent." They were especially flattered that Castro -- the head of one of the world's most repressive regimes, listed by the...
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MARKETS
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx’s Misconceptions about Man and Markets
Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October 1842, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung [the Rhineland Times],...
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LAW
Reflections on Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons: A Panel Discussion
On April 11, 2006, the University of Southern California Objectivist Club sponsored an event titled "Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons: A Panel Discussion" which was attended by more than 300 people. Many critics on the Left grudgingly uphold the right of our...
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SCI-TECH
The Kyoto Global Warming Conference: Who Cares Who Wins, As Long As America Loses
In the last couple of weeks it's been snowing in Kyoto, snowing in London, snowing in Washington, and snowing all over Mexico -- in Guadalajara for the first time since 1881. Early flurries should have given some of the delegates to the Kyoto Global Warming talks...
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