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...
POLITICS
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...
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.
The Good in Price Gouging
As the Sunshine State endures the worst hurricane season in a century, some Florida merchants are also weathering a manmade gale: charges of so-called “price gouging.” There are thousands of such accusations, and, egged on by media everywhere,...
Capitalist Hawk for Kerry
“A half-battle is worse than none: it does not end in mere defeat–it helps and hastens the victory of your enemies.” Ayn Rand John Kerry is despicable, and I will vote for him. Contrary to the position of some Objectivists that President Bush is...
In Defense of Wal-Mart
It’s no secret that city planners in communities across the nation have resisted attempts by Wal- Mart to open its doors. Wal-Mart has faced the strongest resistance to its “Super Centers” – its version of one-stop-shopping for food, clothing,...
Letters to The Editor: September 2004
September 28, 2004 Why Australia is No Ally to Kerry Australia is a strong ally of the United States. We have a history of fighting alongside American troops in the wars of self interest over the past century (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War I). We...
The Media That Could Not Shoot Straight
Can Americans now purchase assault weapons? If you listen to some pols and mainstream media, you probably cannot answer that question. In 1994, Congress passed and President Clinton signed a 10-year ban on so-called “assault weapons.” In reality, the bill...
The Greatness of Western Civilization
In this age of diversity-worship, it is considered virtually axiomatic that all cultures are equal. Western culture, claim the intellectuals, is in no way superior to that of African tribalists or Eskimo seal hunters. There are no objective standards, they say, that...
An Intelligent Scheme: Privatizing Social Security, Part 2
Current Senate hearings on “mandatory retirement” may have more than a little relevance to the huge question of how to “save” Social Security. Unfortunately, there is far too little attention being paid to the question of why Social Security...
An Intelligent Scheme: Privatizing Social Security, Part 1
Would you sign a contract that enabled the other party to change the terms of that contract at will, while you could neither stop him nor make any changes of your own? Probably not. Yet that is exactly what happens when you pay money into Social Security. No matter...
CBS Demonstrates Modern Journalism’s Pseudo-Objectivity
The feeling in the newsroom must have been exhilarating: in the face of blistering attacks questioning the heroism of John Kerry in Viet Nam made by supporters of President Bush, CBS News would offer damning evidence that would indict the president as a hypocrite....
Multiculturalism’s War on Education
Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of “diversity.” Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence...
Negotiating with Terrorists
Q: Dr. Hurd, I know you favor a strong stance against terrorism. However, I’m sure you disagree with the policy of the Bush Administration and Tony Blair in Britain to refuse to negotiate with the groups who practice beheading. People are dying in the most...
To Profile or Not to Profile?
Should law enforcement profile Muslims? Amnesty International USA answers emphatically no. It asserts in a report issued last week that “law enforcement’s use of race, religion, country of origin, or ethnic and religious appearance as a proxy for criminal...
FCC Should Not Regulate the Airwaves
Since the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl, there have been strident demands for a crackdown by a tougher, stricter Federal Communication Commission. The FCC’s various commissioners now call for the power to regulate cable...
John Kerry’s Blank Resume
If someone applied to you for a job but didn’t want to talk about what he has been doing in the last 20 years, wouldn’t you be suspicious? Might you not think he was insulting your intelligence by expecting you to hire him on the basis of what he did...
Legalize Insider Trading
Martha Stewart’s case, despite public perception to the contrary, turns not on insider trading, but on obstruction of justice, lying to investigators. Dean emeritus Henry Manne of the George Mason University School of Law, author of Insider Trading and the Stock...
Regulate Insider Trading
[The views in this article do not necessarily represent those of CM or its editors, but we provide this article as another viewpoint on Insider Trading.] The Washington Post recently reported on the considerable attention the SEC and Justice Department are devoting to...
RatherGate is a “Sign” of the Times
CBS, in rushing to air the now discredited anti-Bush National Guard documents, issued an embarrassing apology. CBS’s Dan Rather, after days of stonewalling and insisting on the accuracy of the “60 Minutes II” piece, now says: ” . . . I no...
Bill Clinton and Socialized Medicine
The choice facing Americans is stark: the rights-respecting free market of capitalism, where goods and services are produced in abundance, including health care–or the chronic disasters of socialism, where thousands die because of continuous shortages.
Periferiiny Kapitalizm
You might not know it, but economic freedom is to blame for Russia’s recent turn toward authoritarianism, at least according to Lilia Shevtsova, cochair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center....
Productive Inequality: Is it Fair?
Shaquille O’Neal ($32 million), Tiger Woods ($80 million), Oprah Winfrey ($210 million), Barry Bonds ($23 million), Mel Gibson ($210 million) and Lance Armstrong ($19 million) are at or near the top of their professions, and their annual earnings show it. But is...
Michelle Malkin’s “In Defense of Internment”
Back in 1939, when Senator Daniel Inouye was a teenager, he attended a Japanese language school in Hawaii. He was appalled to discover that it was also a center for political propaganda, urging young Japanese Americans like himself to remember that they were Japanese...
Thanks For Terminating My Rights, Mr. Schwarzenegger!
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: Thank you so much! At first, I was worried when the 1994 federal assault weapons ban expired on September 13th. I know that the ban did absolutely nothing to decrease violent crime in the United States, but I sure felt safer when the nice...
Beating George Bush, Revisited
In an article was posted on Capitalism Magazine on November 15, 2003, I advised Democrats, and their nominee (not known at that time), on how to win the election. Below I have excerpted the relevant part of that essay on the particular weaknesses of George W. Bush,...
Health Care in John Kerry’s World
Americans of all political parties need to give close attention to health care issues in this election year. Regardless of how they intend to vote, they need to understand that health care is the primary cause of increased government spending. It confronts Americans...
Art Finally Comes to George Mason University
Controversial art historian Lee Sandstead will speak this Monday evening at the Johnson Center on something this campus hasn’t seen or heard about in decades–art. What? How can I say this? Isn’t there art everywhere at Mason? Well, yes, there is a...
A Tale of Two 9/11s
On September 11, 1814, Thomas MacDonough looked out across Lake Champlaign to see the fruits of his work over the summer. Upon the lake were near twenty ships, ranging in size from small gun boat, no more than a large row boat with a small cannon inside, to small...
Rather Courageous in the Face of Reality
CBS “journalist”/anchorman Dan Rather is an amusing figure to watch fall apart. He seems to believe, or else he is a pathological liar, that what he does at CBS is objective and reality based journalism about relevant issues of the day. Typifying this is...
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