A child can be years behind schedule in beginning to speak and yet go on to have a perfectly normal life.
CULTURE
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.
Post-Thinking Era: Is Thinking Obsolete?
In an age when scientists are creating artificial intelligence, too many of our educational institutions seem to be creating artificial stupidity.
RIP, James Garner
James Garner, who died on July 19 at the age of 86, was quintessentially modern (in the best sense of the term), masculine and American.
Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘America’
Dinesh D’Souza ‘America’ makes good points for the U.S., but not once does the movie name individual rights or individualism as the nation’s founding ideal.
Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ vs. ‘Atlas Shrugged Part 3’
An ill-conceived undertaking by a businessman who sadly does not understand the novel.
Movie Review: America
Emphasizing emotions over facts, the propellant and powerful America: Imagine the World Without Her, co-written and co-directed by conservative author Dinesh D'Souza, teems with a proper American sense of life. It is limited in its power, which strongly builds yet...
Movie Review: Atlas Shrugged Part 3
As I previewed last month, the new and final part of libertarian businessman John Aglialoro's independent movie trilogy adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged, features Christian libertarian ex-congressman Ron Paul of Texas. It's a plot point that, however...
Important Slow News
Recently, President Barack Obama was mocked for saying: “The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed than it’s ever been. It is more educated than it’s ever been.” Although these comments received criticism, he was absolutely right.
Capitalism Solves Problems; Statism Creates Them
Free market benefits aren’t only measured in dollars and cents.
America’s Birthday
But America’s upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America.
The Psychology of Obama
Perhaps we should be grateful that Obama has not done more damage to the nation than he already has.
Omission Control
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there.
The Education Establishment’s Success
Americans fall easy prey to charlatans of all stripes because of the education establishment’s success in dumbing down the nation.
The Errors in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
Capital accumulation and more production, not egalitarianism and its absurd theories and programs, are the foundation of rising living standards in general and rising real wages in particular.
Petty Annoyances
It may be that it’s I who is getting old and out of touch, having been educated during ancient times when nonsense was less acceptable.
Random Thoughts: May 2014
Some people act as if the answer to every problem is to put more money and power in the hands of politicians.
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