We should guard freedom vigilantly against the encroachment of the nanny state—if we value our survival and happiness. The only way to do it is to embrace freedom and reject altruism—and to do so on principle.
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Are there right answers in ethics?
Ethics education is blossoming in business schools (see Financial Post article here). Yet, the scandals don’t seem to go away: corruption at SNC-Lavalin, government interference in mortgage finance and banking that led to the 2008 financial crisis, new fraudulent...
Rescuing BlackBerry?
The latter, nationalistic motive of buying BlackBerry or any other company is misguided.
Health By Government Permission
Government involvement in medical care does not ensure better care but leads to its degradation, while making it less available and more expensive. Like Obamacare, the FDA actually threatens our health.
Racial Trade-offs: Part II
I can’t imagine what black politicians and civil rights groups are getting that’s worth condemning black youths to a high rate of unemployment and its devastating effects on upward economic mobility, but then again, I’m not a politician.
Racial Trade-offs
Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let’s look at some examples. Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always...
Banning private health care kills: Equality at the cost of human lives
The Alberta medical regulator’s proposal to ban private diagnostic services is based on the evil anti-human-life philosophy of egalitarianism.
The Governmental Shutdown
The blame for the shutdown belongs on those who want to spend beyond all limits.
Is It Irresponsible to Not Raise The Debt Ceiling?
It’s those who want to keep raising the debt limit, continuing to evade the causes of the fiscal disaster, who are irresponsible.
Obama Brings Back the Carter Malaise
Benevolent optimism accompanies free men – malaise is what accompanies slaves.
The ObamaCare October
ObamaCare is America’s health care dictatorship.
Inarticulate Republicans
If the continued existence of mathematics depended on the ability of the Republicans to defend the proposition that two plus two equals four, that would probably mean the end of mathematics and of all the things that require mathematics. Republican Speaker of the...
The Battle of Mogadishu: Twenty Years Later
Holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day celebrate the heroism, courage, and honor of American service members. October third should be the day Americans remind themselves of the true horrors of needless wars.
Who Shut Down the Government?
The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare. If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
The Sacrifice of Your Health Care
If the government’s goal is equality in medical care, Obamacare will eventually achieve it: equal suffering for all.
Harry Reid’s Conspiracy Theory
To career politicians like Harry Reid, even cutting back on government amounts to “anarchy.”
Destroying Household Jobs
Despite evidence from around the world that minimum wage laws can price low-skilled workers out of jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor is planning to extend minimum wage coverage to domestic workers, such as maids or those who drop in from time to time to do a...
Defunding Obamacare
Supporters of Obamacare speak as if refusing to fund or implement it will create a Constitutional crisis. Actually, it’s Obamacare and other laws like it that create the growing crisis with our government. Obamacare is a law that attempts to manufacture a private...
High Risk, Low Yield
The time, effort and credibility that Republicans are investing in trying to defund ObamaCare is a high risk, low yield investment.
Student Indoctrination: The Goal of the Leftist Teaching Agenda
Students should record classroom professorial propaganda and give it wide distribution over the Internet.
Does the State Own the Child? Obama and Germany Say “Yes”
It’s preposterous to even suggest that banning any form of education promotes “diversity.”
War For the Hell of It
By attacking the vicious dictator Assad, we’re helping an arguably even worse enemy—al Qaida, the people responsible for 9/11.
You Don’t Have to Stay Poor — The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires
“The Wealth Choice” argues that wealth (millionaireship) is not a function of circumstance, luck, environment or the cards you were dealt. Instead, wealth is the result of a conscious choice, action, faith, innovation, effort, preparation and discipline.
IBM Leads the Way in Post-Obamacare America
Obamacare deliberately incentivizes companies and employers like IBM to move to government care.
Syria and Obama: Part II
Chickens are coming home to roost for Barack Obama, both at home and overseas.
Syria and Obama
How many Americans have learned to distinguish between Obama’s soaring words and his sorry record?
The Ethics of War with Syria
America is not the world’s police and it ought to be unnecessary to have to declare let alone debate that an attack by the U.S. on Syria would be an outrage. But the Obama administration, backed by every major Democrat and Republican and largely by the press, too, is...
Environmentalism Makes the Middle East Matter
The impending war in Syria seems like a good time to revisit environmentalism. Although Obama may be foolish enough to believe America has an obligation to invade Syria in the absence of any threat to American interests, the continuing high cost of fuel always gives...
Serious About Syria?
“Military action” is a polite phrase for killing people. It would be nice to believe that this has some larger purpose than saving Barack Obama from political embarrassment.
A Narcissist Goes to War
A narcissist is someone who (a) thinks he’s smarter or more skilled than he is; and/or (b) thinks he has power or knowledge that nobody else can have. At the root of narcissism is a false belief that something other than rational knowledge and rational action is the...
Unintended Consequences of Increased Minority Homeownership
One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased homeownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough...
Touchy Topics: Freedom of Association and Discrimination
What is the true test of one’s commitment to freedom of expression? Is it when one permits others to express ideas with which he agrees? Or is it when he permits others to express ideas he finds deeply offensive?
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