Too Late for One, SCOTUS Accepts Land Use Case
Finally, the nation’s highest court will hear a case with potential to clarify the Fifth Amendment’s private property protections. But to what degree the outcome will impact the future actions of the nation’s most oppressive land grabber, the federal...Responsible Voting
Every election year there are great alarms in the media that not enough Americans vote. Supposedly this shows that there is something wrong at the core of our society. In reality, societies where different groups are at each other’s throats often have high voter...Debater vs. Leader
Polls show President Bush lost the first debate against Democratic presidential contender John Kerry. Why? Bush failed to respond to Kerry’s assertions. Let’s deal with them. Did Bush irresponsibly use the “authority” given him by Congress? The...George Lucas vs. The Stormtroopers
To paraphrase Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead, George Lucas created Star Wars and George Lucas has the right to destroy Star Wars.
Opposing Platonic Conservatism: A Matter of Values
Some admirer’s of Ayn Rand have concluded that the political values of her philosophy, Objectivism, and the values of Bush conservatives are fundamentally the same. They claim, for instance, that Objectivists and conservatives both value freedom, even though the...Columbus Day: The Cure for 9/11
On Columbus Day, in sum, we celebrate Western civilization with the utter certainty that it is good according to an objective standard: man’s life. America therefore deserves to prevail against the religious totalitarians who would destroy industrial civilization and return mankind to the Stone Age.
