I used to get angrier about such clueless reporting because when I worked at ABC News, editors based entire shows on silly ideas from the Times. Now we have more sources of news, so one newspaper doesn’t matter as much. Thank goodness.
CULTURE
A nation’s culture is the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men, which their fellow-citizens have accepted in whole or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s way of life. Since a culture is a complex battleground of different ideas and influences, to speak of a ‘culture’ is to speak only of the dominant ideas, always allowing for the existence of dissenters and exceptions. — AYN RAND
Random Thoughts December 2014
When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community — thugs they portray as martyrs, for example — without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the lives of the majority of decent black people.
Black Progression and Retrogression
Much of the pathology seen in many black communities is entirely new in black history.
The Legacy of Liberalism
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about.
Altruism Means Self-Sacrifice, not Benevolence
Benevolence does not require self-sacrifice.
Elite Contempt for Ordinary Americans
Focusing only on Professor Gruber’s arrogance, we ignore the more important fact that he is highly representative of the academic mindset — the people who are brainwashing our youngsters.
The Real Reason Ferguson Burns
The moment we start taking seriously the idea that there are different kinds of reality and therefore different kinds of reason to apply to different “realities,” (black, white, female, whatever), then civilization is truly on its way out.
Jeb Bush Shows Why Republicans Are Still “The Stupid Party”
You can’t have it both ways, Jeb. Either the federal government controls the whole thing, or it doesn’t.
The Morality of Capitalism
Capitalism, in Ayn Rand’s definition, is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights (including property rights) in which all property is privately owned.”
The Deep-Seated Suspicion of Self-interest
People are suspicious of self-interest because for every philosopher who has taught and advocated self-interest, there have been multiples of those who have taught its opposite, altruism.
Educational Fraud
Colleges admitting underperforming black students conceal, foster and perpetuate the educational damages done to these youngsters in their earlier education.
The Berlin Wall and the Spirit of Freedom
The history of the Berlin Wall and the collectivist ideology behind it should remind us of how important a loss of any of our freedom can be as we determine in what direction – toward greater individual freedom and free enterprise or more government command and control – we wish our country to move in the 21st century.
How to Solve the Problem of Religious Conservatives
The assertion of individual rights would solve all disputes between social conservatives and their opponents.
Escaping ‘Government’ Schools
Homeschoolers do just fine. Somehow, without government control, they prosper.
Time To Abandon The Scholar-Athlete Charade
Universities ought to pay athletes a competitive salary in line with everyone else involved in college sports.
Random Thoughts For October 2014
Never take other people for granted. There is a point of no return in all relationships.
Irresponsible ‘Education’: Ivory Towers of Indoctrination
Nothing is easier than to prove that America, or any other society of human beings, is far from being the perfect gem that any of us can conjure up in our imagination.
Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization
On Columbus Day, in sum, we celebrate Western civilization as history’s greatest cultural achievement.
Teacher Indoctrination
Many teachers, at all grades, use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda.
What Does Ben Affleck’s Defense of Islam Reveal?
Islam’s promotion of Sharia Law involves imposing the will of Islamic authorities on all the governments in the world.
It’s Better Now
Americans now face beheadings, gang warfare, Ebola, ISIS and a new war in Syria. It’s natural to assume that the world has gotten more dangerous. But it hasn’t.
Business Ethics 101: Selfishness, Altruism and Personal Values
The prerequisite of acting ethically in business and other realms of life is clear thinking.
Multiculturalism Is a Failure: The Islamist’s War with the Western Culture
The bottom line is that much of the Muslim world is at war with Western civilization. There’s no question that the West has the military might to thwart radical Islam’s agenda. The question up for grabs is whether we have the intelligence to recognize the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation.
Late-Talking Children
A child can be years behind schedule in beginning to speak and yet go on to have a perfectly normal life.
Things I Don’t Understand
Dr Williams on insurance premiums, ebola, and warning labels.
The College Education Bubble
Government intervention has done for the higher educational marketplace what it did for the real estate marketplace a decade back — created a bubble.
The Vice of Selflessness
Accepting selflessness as the moral ideal is a source of unearned guilt and irreconcilable with success and happiness.
Atlas Shrugged Movie Producer Harmon Kaslow Responds to Criticisms
Devoted fans of the perennially best-selling novel about the productive vs. the destructive, have expressed disappointment in the filmmakers’ decisions. Producer Harmon Kaslow answers some of those criticisms.
What College Tuition Pays For
Bogus courses, silencing free speech and hatred of anything not “progressive” — this is what your college tuition pays for.
Random Thoughts August 2014
I don’t know why we are spending our hard-earned money paying taxes to support a criminal justice system, when issues of guilt and innocence are being determined on television — and even punishment is being meted out by CNN’s showing the home and address of the policeman accused in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting.
The Death of Robin Williams
In the end, it’s not how you die that matters at all; it’s how you live.
The “Progressive” Assault on Achievement in Education
New York schools that achieve excellence in education are under attach by unions, community “leaders” and the “progressive” elite.
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