by George Reisman | Feb 20, 2006 | Healthcare
Unfortunately, when medical care is made free, the quantity of it that people attempt to consume becomes virtually limitless.
by David Gulbraa | Feb 20, 2006 | POLITICS
Some of you reading this web site think of yourselves as either Liberal or Conservative. You have views of the world based on personal beliefs, and these beliefs lead you to certain political assumptions. I am neither Liberal nor Conservative and I have political... by Leonard Peikoff | Feb 19, 2006 | Free Speech, Religion
Ayatollah Khomeni’s attack on Salman Rushdie and his publishers represents religious terrorism. Americans oppose the Ayatollah’s death-decree, but our government is doing nothing to combat it.
by Our Readers | Feb 18, 2006 | POLITICS
According to the University of Washington student government, university alumnus Gregory “Pappy” Boyington is not a person university students should strive to emulate and he should not be honored with a memorial on campus because as a Marine Corps... by David Gulbraa | Feb 17, 2006 | POLITICS
John Q. Liberal is a professor at a local college. On Monday he gives a speech in which he denounces capitalism and the profit motive, and praises environmentalism as the highest moral ideal. When his speech is over, he confronts the organizer of the talk.... by George Reisman | Feb 16, 2006 | Healthcare
This rationale and its acceptance by a judge is an illustration of what Ayn Rand, with good reason, used to describe contemptuously as a “collectivist stewpot.”
by John Ridpath | Feb 16, 2006 | POLITICS
Where can Americans turn, to witness the spectacle of great leadership?
by Thomas Sowell | Feb 16, 2006 | Energy, POLITICS
The first revolt of the American colonists against their British rulers was immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as “the shot heard round the world.” Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident has now become the shot heard round the Beltway. The... by Richard M Salsman | Feb 16, 2006 | Money & Banking
Alan Greenspan was Federal Reserve chairman for 18½ years — longer than the reigns of nearly half the kings and queens of England. A few years ago he was “knighted” by England’s current monarch. For years he was deified by economists and Wall...