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
Recently, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer received a lot of media attention when she proposed fines and other financial punishment for overweight citizens and smokers on Medicaid. Others targeted by such programs include diabetics who fail to follow instructions from...
I'm sick to death of all this talk about "both sides" in the federal budget debate needing to "come together." We should get something straight. In every issue, there is a right side and a wrong side. (That is, assuming there's any real difference between the two...
?Telling others what to do is an insult. It implies that the person you’re ordering to do something has no rational faculty of his or her own. If you went up to somebody and said, “You’re mindless. You can’t do anything,” this would be...
The theme of Atlas Shrugged, the novel, is “the role of the mind in man’s existence.”
Districting is a Constitutional requirement that must be done every ten years following the census. The requirement has become a political tool. It is believed that If one can corral many of one's own party into one district, reaching them will be easier. This...
Barack Obama, like all liberals, does not like to be questioned. But he's so profoundly wrong about so many things that our very survival depends on questioning him. In his latest speech bashing both Republicans and capitalism, Barack Obama said: "The way this...
Have you forgotten about Obama's attempt to control the Internet -- in Orwellian doublespeak known as "Net Neutrality"? Well, the Republican House of Representatives (to their credit) has not forgotten. Two days before Christmas, the FCC issued “net...
In a recent article, I wrote that Donald Trump would not be a President who restored capitalism and individual rights, but would be a President who would initiate fascism. If his attitudes and beliefs about the cult of personality applied to government don’t...
A is A. Islam is Islam. There is no such thing as 'Good' Islam vs 'Bad' Islam. Islam is a totalitarian religion, but Muslims are individual human beings who may or may not practice their religion. One way I’ve been putting it recently is that your average Muslim...
The recent government shutdown "compromise" is what happens when you play principle-by-numbers. The Republican House leadership originally promised to cut no less than $100 billion from the multi-trillion dollar budget. Eventually they caved and settled for $60...
Punitive and redistributionist taxes, centralized planning, barriers to trade, and an entitlement “social safety net” are all ideas straight out of Karl Marx, not John Galt.
Enraged over the burning of a Koran in Florida, Muslims have murdered about 20 people in Afghanistan and five in Pakistan—none of whom ever burned a Koran or had any acquaintance with the men who did.These killers are monstrous. They have assassinated...
Late-breaking: contrary to the spin I fell for, the Paul Ryan budget plan is a fraud. Karl Rove reports that the proposed budget does not cut a single dime. It's the oldest trick in the book: pass off a slowed increase as a cut. Ryan's “Path to Prosperity”...
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) speaks for all liberals and socialists when he says that budget "cuts do not necessarily mean savings." Only in the world of Washington D.C. do the laws of logic, economics, physics and even simple sensory evidence not apply. This isn't...
Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder has resentfully given in. He's referring the 9/11 mastermind terrorist to the Pentagon for a military trial. Obama and Holder wanted terrorists tried as civilians -- as purse-snatchers, or even less -- and for those trials to take...
Of all the stupid things said in political Washington D.C., few are as ridiculous as the claim that a government shutdown, or government spending cuts, will "harm" the American economy. Such a statement relies on the most false premise imaginable: That government...
In the current budget battles, former and (she hopes) future Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke of going for a "higher ground, not a middle ground." She's referring to calls by the Republican leaders and others for an elusive middle ground. You know you're in...
Recently, the Obama Administration seemed to flash a rare sign of laissez-faire thinking when it issued a report calling for the “winding down” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two taxpayer-guaranteed institutions now responsible for backing at...
The movement to repeal President Obama's signature health care law rightly criticizes the accounting trickery in the legislation's understated costs and overstated savings. In fact, when in the last two centuries has the U.S. Congress been able to reduce, control or...
A reader asked what my thoughts are on conscription -- i.e., the draft. I view the draft the same way I view any violation of individual rights: As slavery. In the case of the draft, since your life is at stake, the slavery is as literal as it comes. The common...
The emergence of Donald Trump as a serious candidate for President shows just how far off track conservatives -- and Americans more generally -- have become. Trump represents the development of an attitude, an attitude that all that matters is "getting something...
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is one of the loudest proponents of ObamaCare, not to mention all things socialist. When he's critical of Obama, it's -- incredibly -- from the left, not from the right or the center. At the time of ObamaCare's passage, Weiner bragged that...
Q: While the choice of action and thought will always remain with the individual, are we not affected by environmental factors beyond our control, advertising for example? In addition, what role does the concept of influence play in "leading" people to a certain...
A Kosovar Albanian Muslim, Arid Uka, murdered two American airmen outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany last Wednesday. “I did it for Allah,” he explained. Like so many jihad attacks these days, this one was initially dismissed as having nothing...
Oil and gas prices are higher than ever, and are going still higher. Everybody knows it. The oil-producing Middle East is becoming more unstable than ever before, with the active help and participation of the United States -- in Libya, for example. Everybody knows it....
As the U.S. fired more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya on Saturday, the objective seems clear. Barack Obama declared that “we cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people that there will be no mercy.” He explained: ...
Someone wrote and asked me the following: ”I've been thinking about the following. Is it acceptable to sacrifice one man to save 100,000 or any large arbitrary number? I know this question has shown up in many stories and films and I am sure philosophy classes....
The British Ministry of Defense, the French government and the American White House all insist: The target of the military attack on Libya is not Qaddafi; it's only military buildings. So let me get this straight. We're attacking Libya because the dictator Qaddafi is...
From Investor's Business Daily: Using data mined from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, TrimTabs Investment Research has found that 35% of wages and salaries this year will be in the form of a government payment. That’s up sharply from 2000, when it was 21%,...
President Obama is warning Libyan dictator Qaddafi to "fully comply" with a new U.N. resolution that calls for him to cease fire against rebels or .... Or what? This is a president who has apologized to the entire world for past use of American military force. Why...
“They were nit-picking and dic-dic-dic-ing all over the place.”
Lessons from the Battle of Wisconsin, where the standoff took place between Republicans and Democrats over the alleged rights of public union workers: 1) When the Obama Administration and union officials make threats, including reportedly physical threats, against...