Life Imitates Fiction at Amtrak: Shades of Atlas Shrugged’s Taggart Transcontinental Railroad
Millions of people have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and marveled at her fictional portrayals of the badly run Taggart Transcontinental Railroad and a statist national government. Today, as Congress considers showering Amtrak with higher subsidies, it’s...Global Warming and Hurricanes: Still No Connection
While the impacts of the currently active hurricane period are being felt especially hard in the United States, there remains no scientific proof that human contributions to an enhanced greenhouse effect are the root cause.
The Real Injustice in New Orleans: The Welfare State’s Assault on the Productive Individual
Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, now head of the National Urban League, complained on NBC’s Today Show on September 1 that the U.S. Government had refused to give funding for upgrading the city’s flood defenses. Numerous city and Louisiana State...Letters to the Editor: September 2005
United Nation Reforms Worse Than Doing Nothing September 21, 2005 To the editor; Mr. Journo’s cogent article (The UN’s “Virtue” Is Its Vice) hit the nail right on the head: what is wrong with the UN is not economic corruption, improperly...Random Thoughts: September 2005
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Different people have different ideas about humility. One man said: “I don’t think I’m half as good as I know I really am.” What can we be certain of from history? That human beings have been wrong...The UN’s “Virtue” Is Its Vice: How The United Nation’s Neutrality Props Up Evil Regimes
More than 170 political leaders from around the world recently met at the United Nations to consider what the New York Times called “the most sweeping institutional changes” in the organization’s history. But this exercise was, predictably, hopeless....Charity Is No Function of the Federal Government
Last week, President Bush promised the nation that the federal government will pay for most of the costs of repairing hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, adding, “There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again.”...Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (Part 7 of 7)
There is only one way to combat a morality that is against human life, and that is by embracing a morality that is for human life–a non-sacrificial morality–the morality of self-interest.
