Religion’s alleged harmony with science is a fraudulent masquerade, extending only insofar as religious dogmas are not called into question
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
“Super Size Me”: Morgan Spurlock’s Latest Con
Two weeks ago, I flew to a film festival in Austin, Texas, to watch what could be one of America's hottest movies this spring: an engaging documentary called "Super Size Me," which shows what happens when you stuff yourself for a month and don't exercise. The creator...
The Pledge of Allegiance Revisited: America’s Allegiance Belongs to Individual Rights Not Religion
The Pledge of Allegiance’s assertion that America exists Under God is wrong and allowing government schools to promote such notions constitutes the unequivocal establishment of religion. The Founding Fathers fought for the right to not believe in God, the right to not participate in religion, the right to reject faith. In this sense, the phrase ‘under God’ is un-American and it ought to be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America’s Schools
Although government schools maintain a monopoly on public funds, they’ve failed miserably by almost every conceivable benchmark.
Jesus Christ Superscar
The Passion of the Christ’s theme is that suffering, not joy, is man’s proper fate.
BOOKS: Anti-Americanism: An Introduction
In short, the United States I had discovered was in complete contrast to the conventional portrayal then generally accepted in Europe
Movies: Miracle on Ice Offered an Escape From 1979
The so-called miracle on ice only felt like a miracle because it represented the central conflict of the worlds bloodiest century: between individualism and collectivism and, for once, the good prevailed.
The New Yorker on Michael Moore
There is so much that is overpoweringly vile about Larissa MacFarquhar's portrait of Michael Moore in the this week's New Yorker, that it is hard to know where to begin. Start with the multiple layers of radical chic phoniness entailed in the New Yorker celebrating...
Judeo-Christian Philosophy and the Founding of America
A curious notion is mushrooming lately on programs such as "The O'Reilly Factor" and other current events shows. Certain commentators claim that the United States of America owes its existence to what is termed "Judeo-Christian" philosophy. Now I will not dispute that...
Love Thy Enemy
I quote from a bumpersticker I recently saw on a car covered (or I should say, littered) with anti-Iraq-war/pro-Howard Dean stickers: "When Jesus said love your enemies, he probably meant: don't kill them." This is undoubtedly true. Loving your enemies is a core...
The Joy of Football: The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement
Ultimately, sporting events like football’s Super Bowl offer a microcosmic vision of what “real life” could, and should, be like.
Bush’s Faith is Immoral, But He’s Better Than His Christian Critics
The writer of a letter recently appearing in The Tennessean says the president's religious faith conflicts with his decision to go to war in Iraq. Many of Bush's Christian critics share this opinion. And in one sense they're right. There is indeed a major disparity...
Egalitarianism: The New Torture Rack
If you have ever wondered why the number of great artists, intellects and achievers has dwindled, you should blame egalitarianism.
Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical
The Defenders of Capitalism Should Invoke Secularism and Reason, Not Religion and Faith, as Their Justification
A Commercialized Christmas Carol
Profits, not prophets, allow Christmas giving– and year-round living. The dollar sign, not mystical icons, deserves to top one’s tree.
Goodness Through a Mystical Lens
Q: I have been in an ongoing discussion with a friend regarding belief in a higher, supernatural being. After many conversations, it finally became clear his true reasoning for believing: he believes that humans are essentially base, murderous, thieving, pillaging...
The Psychology of Sexual Arousal
Q: Why do men seem to enjoy viewing women naked (e.g., in photos, real life, etc.) much more than women seem to enjoy looking at naked men? It seems men are much more "turned on" romantically/sexually by the visual aspects of the opposite sex, than the other way...
PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The following is a letter written in response to some accusations made by an unnamed professor against student Alexander Marriott as detailed in A Victory Against Political Correctness: Rebel Yell Apologizes to Alexander Marriott.Now that I am back on the job I have a...
Just Anti-Social
We've loaded him with a lot of taxes And rules and codes but there's something funny; In spite of the way his burden waxes The son-of-a-gun is making money! Whenever he's given a boost to trade We've taken an extra tribute off it, But still the villain is undismayed,...
The Thinker
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the Thought, The Thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel! The drudge may fret and tinker...
What Businessmen Should Learn from Homeschoolers: Lessons from the CBS ‘News’ Assault on the Mind
A recent CBS "news" program "The Dark Side of Homeschooling" was a frontal assault, by smears and innuendo, against individual freedom and independence. As a coffin was carried into a cemetery, we were told that homeschooling can hide child abuse, which can lead to...
Man
Weak and puny, small and frail, Helpless he with tooth or nail, In a world of fang and claw Where sheer power makes the law. INto battle he had gone With the shaggy mastodon, With the cruel beasts of prey Snarling in their lust to slay, Thirsting for the taste of...
Why Not?
Why shouldn't the soul of a mortal be proud? Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud But while it is going and ere he has died A man may do many things worthy of pride The high and the humble, the meek and the brave, Are all of them destined in time for the...
Christopher Columbus, We Salute You
Most Columbus Days are marked by rabid condemnations of the explorer as a genocidal maniac bent on destroying the peaceful and innocent native peoples who populated the Caribbean islands which Columbus discovered. These condemnations are not only unwarranted but...
Who Whipped Communism?
Soviet President Brezhnev, one of the last of the Soviet Communist dictators, hated the Catholic Church, according to conversations reported in The Wall Street Journal. Back during the Cold War Brezhnev is quoted as saying, "Sooner or later [the Church] would gag in...
School Performances
Many of the pronouncements coming from those who run our public schools range from fallacies to frauds. The new book "No Excuses" by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom exposes a number of these self-serving lies. You may have heard how hard it is to find enough teachers...
Faith’s War Against Worldliness
When stripped of details, Christianity and Islam are identical in essentials.
Hollywood’s Favorite Child Molester
One of the most popular movies currently playing at the box office, "Jeepers Creepers 2," is a teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed, seduced, and filmed in...
Roasting Walter Williams
At George Mason University, they are giving a “roast” — that peculiarly American combination of praise and ridicule — to Walter Williams, professor of economics and columnist extraordinaire. Although I cannot be there, let me participate vicariously with a few observations about Walter.
Remember Flight 93
Flight 93 should be remembered for many reasons. Foremost is that it was the first victory in the War on Terrorism, though it came at a high price. The terrorists' plan depended on the passenger's common assumption that their temporary cooperation with hijackers would...
Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children
We may become the first society destroyed by its own experts -- especially experts in fields where there is no expertise that can be verified by facts. Over the past several decades, no one has been victimized more by so-called experts than parents and children. And...
Interview with the Political Cartoonist Team of John Cox and Allen Forkum
I first noticed Cox & Forkum when I spotted a cartoon called "The Blogger's Cycle." I thought, "Wow. These guys nailed me! I could have written this myself, if only I were that clever and talented." I immediately read the rest of the Cox & Forkum weblog, where...
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