America's health care system ailments, such as skyrocketing costs and restrictions on the freedom to choose a doctor, are prevalently ascribed to our mixed economy's capitalist aspects, while their alleged remedies lie in the economy's other aspect: statist, socialist...
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Individual Rights: Key To Restoring National Unity in Canada
'National unity crisis' makes many Canadians immediately think of the looming threat of Quebec separation. But the crisis is broader. Many non-Quebeckers are fed up with the way the federal government is running the country. Quebec separatism is one manifestation,...
Vindicating the Founders: What Kind of Guys Were the Founding Fathers
Today's students are often taught that our Founding Fathers were racists. Textbooks make comments like, "The sublime principles of the Declaration did not apply to them [blacks]. They were for whites only." The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said, "The...
The Department of Justice vs God
[HUMOR] In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice yesterday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Christianity for its monopoly on religion in the US marketplace. Attorney General Janet Reno defended the lawsuit, saying, "For too long, Christianity has been the...
Is Social Security Moral? The Looting of Our Retirement Savings Is the Product of Altruism
President Clinton has announced that the precarious Social Security system can be saved by giving it first claim on future federal surpluses. His top priority, he told the nation, is to ensure that "Social Security will be there when you need it."But Mr. Clinton was...
John Dewey’s Legacy To Education: Teen Violence
Reena Virk, a 14-year-old teenage girl, was brutally beaten and murdered on the night of Nov. 14, 1997, in the Victoria suburb of Saanich, British Columbia. Seven teens, six of them girls aged 14-16, face charges of aggravated assault. Paradoxically, this...
Health Care Is Not A Right
So long as people believe that socialized medicine is a noble plan, there is no way to fight it.
Racism is Only a Conservative Problem, Right?
Last year, Representative. Bob Barr, Republican of Georgia, gave the keynote speech before the Council of Conservative Citizens. What is the Council of Conservative Citizens? It is a southern organization that considers whites superior to blacks and equates...
Janet Reno: Rank Amateur
Dear Miss Reno:You've had some impressive victories lately. With a single press announcement, you've made Microsoft a marked company, targeted for the crime of promoting "unfair competition" - all because it insists that parts of its operating system be packaged with...
Ten Things Everyone Ought To Know About Global Warming
With all the hype about global warming and climate disasters filling the journals and air waves, here are some facts that need to be more widely known: The climate is never just "average"; it changes all the time, from season to season, year to year, and over the...
Mourning Bill Gates
Many people have wondered: Will the death of Mother Theresa be mourned as greatly as the death of Princess Diana? But personally, I have wondered how many people would mourn the loss of Bill Gates.The philosopher Ayn Rand taught us that man's highest moral ideal is...
Egalitarianism in Football
The sports section of the November 18th edition of the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) carried an article about Doug Flutie, the star quarterback of the Toronto Argonauts. The Argos are Toronto's team in the Canadian Football League; they had just won the...
A Double Standard of Justice Toward Microsoft
In 1988, Microsoft offered manufacturers of personal computers a considerable discount on the licensing fees they pay to install MS-DOS and Windows operating system on new PCs prior to their leaving the factory. In exchange it required manufacturers to pay for each...
The U.S. Government’s Assault on Microsoft
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently accused Microsoft of violating U.S. antitrust laws, and asked a federal court to fine Microsoft an unprecedented 1$ million per day until the "violations" cease. Microsoft's "crime" was to include its Internet Explorer...
Cop Haters Dearly Loved in Hollywood
Tom Alciere, an obscure Republican lawmaker from New Hampshire, received nationwide media attention this week for posting remarks on the Internet about killing cops. What a fool. If Mr. Alciere had written his crude rantings in rhyme and embarked on a music career...
The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains
Selling “The Big Lies” helps Hollywood to keep alive the fantasy that the Left is the victim rather than the perpetrator of injustice.
Feminization of the Military
"Boy, what's that @#&*! growing under your nose? It looks like a &@*@#. You'd better get that &@*#! off your face by the next formation." It was July 1959. With about 60 other recruits, I was being welcomed to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. According...
Economics of Unionism
The Teamsters' strike, and its pending settlement, against United Parcel Service (UPS) gives us a chance to think about unions and labor issues. In a free society, people have the right to form voluntary associations. Therefore, any impediment, including so-called...
Extortion or Voluntary Exchange
Last month, Autumn Jackson was convicted of extortion, con- spiracy, and crossing state lines to commit a crime. When sentenced in October, she faces up to 12 years in prison and a fine up to $750,000. Miss Jackson's in hot water because she demanded $40 million from...
The Wrong Education Target
A Washington Post editorial (7/24/97) said that had the reading portion of the Stanford Achievement Test been used as this year's criterion for promotion, 33 percent of D.C.'s third-graders and 29 percent of its eighth-graders would have been left down. Test results...
Graduated Tax for Medicare Is Immoral
The U.S. Congress has been considering a steep increase in Medicare taxes for higher-income people. A tax that has been flat since its inception in the 1960s is suddenly about to become a graduated tax. If the measure becomes law, the tax for higher-income earners...
People Helping Tyrants
In pursuit of what's deemed as worthy objectives, decent people often pave the way for tyranny. The process usually begins by the piecemeal destruction of the foundations of liberty: private property, rule of law, voluntary exchange and limited government. Those basic...
Public Service and Private Misery
Jonas Salk once named the ambition that guided his career: "I wanted to do independent work and I wanted to do it my way." His ideas were opposed by the scientific establishment, but he persevered, holding nothing above the verdict of his own mind. The result of his...
Should Laws Be Obeyed?
Should we obey laws? It all depends; some laws aren't worthy of obedience. "There you go again, Williams;" you say, "what kind of society would there be if people decided which laws they'd obey or disobey?" That might be a problem but let's look at it. During several...
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