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.
Jonathan Gruber’s notion that the people are “stupid” is not fundamentally different from what Obama said to his fellow elite leftists in San Francisco, when he derided ordinary Americans as petty people who want to cling to their guns and their religion. We need to see through such arrogant elitists if we want to cling to our freedom.
If immigration laws are, as I hold, violations of individual rights, it is up to the courts, not the President, to determine that.
You can’t have it both ways, Jeb. Either the federal government controls the whole thing, or it doesn’t.
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.”
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.
Obama is living up to those pledges by subverting our Constitution and adopting the political style of a banana republic dictator.
Control freaks want to run your life. They call themselves “public servants.”
