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Trump’s Fantasy World

Producers are forced to trade on terms Trump dictates rather than terms of their own choosing.

2012: The Year To Save American Medicine

2012: The Year To Save American Medicine

During the coming year, the threat to freedom will proceed on multiple fronts. Each will require specific action. We are rapidly running out of time to prevent the destruction of the quality, availability and freedom of American medicine, and our best and last chance...

Rick Santorum: The Anti-Capitalist

Rick Santorum: The Anti-Capitalist

A few years ago, it seemed inevitable.  The popular resistance to the increasingly invasive federal policies in healthcare, housing, and finance seemed to have sparked a cultural revolution of sorts.  This was characterized by the “Tea Party” movement that...

Gingrich on Health Care

Increasingly, it looks like either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney will be the Republican alternative to the horrendous President Obama. Anyone who’s not a liberal already understands what’s wrong with Romney. In the first of a series, I’ll examine...

Book Reviews: Nothing Less Than Victory by John David Lewis

With no real end in sight in the War on Terror, the “new normal” of constant deployments and unending conflict is a condition that the majority of the military has come to accept. Is there a better way? In a wide survey of history beginning with the Theban...

The Critics of the Tea Party

The Tea Party has certainly attracted its share of criticism. Many of those criticisms do not merit a response. However, an organization called the Constitutional Accountability Center issued a brief titled  Setting the Record Straight: The Tea Party and the...

Your Doctor is Rude? Maybe this is Why

According to Psychology Today Online, physician meltdown is on the rise. When surveyed by the American College of Physician Executives, one-third of health care facility administrators reported disruptive incidents among their physician colleagues at least once a...

Why the Holidays Are So Stressful For So Many

“The holidays are coming. It’s a time of complete emotional stress.” To say this is considered a self-evident truth. But why is it true? I maintain that holidays, while perfectly fine and pleasant, are not necessary for happy people. Happy people...

The Mythical “Right to Healthcare”

The Mythical “Right to Healthcare”

After fifty years of growing government programs, health care costs continue to rise. The U.S. government now controls nearly half of all health care dollars, and the crisis is becoming acute. The plans we are seeing from Washington are not innovations, but rather...

Businesspeople are the Ones Who Need to Protest

Dr. Hurd originally wrote this article for the Association of Objectivist Business Professionals. In light of the anarchist-socialist protest of those defecating patriots known as Occupy Wall Street, it deserves rereading here. Most people look at...

Obama's Kind of Immigrants

Obama's Kind of Immigrants

Newsmax.com reports: Illegal immigration costs Arizona $1.6 billion a year – a staggering 19 percent of the state’s budget – Gov. Jan Brewer said in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, adding that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye...

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In Praise of Capitalist Inequality

The Occupy Wall Street protestors claim to want “economic justice.” But real economic justice doesn’t consist of looting others’ wealth, but respecting others’ right to keep what they’ve earned.

Iran Policy: "I'll Think About That Tomorrow"

Associated Press reports: Military action against Iran could have unintended consequences, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, sounding the administration’s strongest reservations about a strike since the release of a new report on Tehran’s escalating...

Death by 1,000 Cuts

With the US stock market’s recent volatility, many investors may be wondering whether or not we are headed for another 2008-style crash where the market drops 30 to 40 percent within a few short weeks. Sensing that timing could be critical, many investors may be...

The Redistribution of Health

The Redistribution of Health

In her famous novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand identified the absurdity of placing one’s life in the hands of doctors whose lives had been throttled by socialized medicine. Socialized medicine, because of the government monopoly it imposes on both doctors and...

No Palestine State Until They Reject Jihadist Ideology

Millions around the world believe that when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the United Nations [last month] for admission of Palestine as an independent state, he was setting the stage for a new era of peace in the Middle...

The Nihilistic Revolution of "Occupy Wall Street"

CNN online reports: “Occupy Wall Street protesters might say they represent 99% of the nation, but there’s a growing number of Americans who are making it clear they are not part of the dissident crowd. They call themselves the 53%…as in the 53% of...

OWS, FDR and Obama

Paul Moreno, writing in the Wall Street Journal, recently said that Obama will follow Franklin D. Roosevelt’s reelection strategy of 1936, during the Great Depression. “Roosevelt and his advisers blamed the recession on a ‘capital strike,’...

From Woodstock to Wall Street

The hippies squatting on Wall Street have reportedly violated numerous laws, including property rights and traffic laws, and they’ve been committing various illegal and unsanitary acts, including defecation, in public. Besides disrupting traffic on the Brooklyn...

Pro-Business and Pro-Market are Not the Same

Steve Jobs reportedly warned President Barack Obama that he would not be back in the White House for a second term unless he adopted more business-friendly policies, according to a new biography of the Apple Computer co-founder. “You’re headed for a...

Beware of Floating Rates

According to US government figures, the yield on the 10-Year US Treasury note reached a record low of 1.72% last month. Thus, despite the fact that government debt has exploded at a rate of more than $1 trillion per year, and the fact that S&P recently downgraded...

A Truly Fair “Tax”

A Truly Fair “Tax”

The proposals by Herman Cain and Rick Perry to streamline the tax system are certainly a step in the right direction. But neither candidate has addressed one crucial point: taxation is theft. If your neighbor broke into your home and took your money, would the purpose...

Why Mob Rule Can Be Just as Bad as Qaddafi

There are two types of dictatorship. One is rule by a dictator; the other is rule by one’s fellow man. The death of Libya’s Qaddafi is a reminder of the first. Qaddafi, like so many other one-man dictators, ruled his people with an iron fist. It’s...

Cain's 9-9-9 Plan: Raising Taxes on The "Lower Class"?

Cain's 9-9-9 Plan: Raising Taxes on The "Lower Class"?

Some people criticize Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan for the wrong reasons. Advocates of wealth redistribution complain that it raises taxes on the lower and middle working classes. This is true. Many of them will actually have to start paying some taxes rather than...

Herman Cain's 9-9-9-9 Plan

Herman Cain's 9-9-9-9 Plan

Herman Cain has been gaining much traction with his 9-9-9 Plan, a bold proposal to replace our dysfunctional tax code with what could be a simpler, less invasive, and more economically stimulative alternative. While I don’t agree with the full spectrum of Mr....

Steve Jobs Entrepreneur

Suddenly, Steve Jobs is gone. And only now is his exceptional ability being fully realized. Many of us felt a sense of personal loss at the news of his death. Good tributes to him have appeared in The Wall Street Journal (Walt Mossberg), The NY Times (David Pogue),...

Licensing Professions is a Must … Right?

According to a recent book by Morris M. Kleiner, an economist at the University of Minnesota, as many as 3 out of 10 workers in the United States must now be licensed to do their jobs. No longer limited to doctors, lawyers and the like; fortune tellers, massage...

Cost Shifting in Health Care

Cost Shifting in Health Care

On August 18, the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the Affordable Care Act’s mandatory insurance provision unconstitutional by a vote of 2-1. The dissenting judge, Stanley Marcus, while maintaining that the mandate for Americans to buy...

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