POLITICS

The following is an expanded version of a talk I've delivered on various college campuses over the past few years. --CB  Because of its prophetic nature with respect to current events, Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged is receiving more attention today than it...

Why Positive Rights Are Not Rights There presently exists a great delusion regarding the subject of rights. The great strides regarding natural rights that have been achieved by the likes of Locke have now been cast aside, in a modern era of entitlement; in an era,...

“Pakistan appears to be playing a double game of astonishing magnitude in Afghanistan” – so says a new report from the London School of Economics, which documents how Pakistani military intelligence is not only aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan, but...

Our only hope for saving America from accelerating tyranny is freedom of speech. In the light of that, it was frightening to read an opinion piece in the July 14th edition of the Wall St. Journal. Its author is Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, home...

There are a lot of developing countries who are looking for an answer to their woes. The biggest question on their mind is "How do we become a 1st world country?" A great first step for them would be; lower taxes. Lower it as much as possible. Almost all countries...

Several months ago, I paused to admire a lovely neighborhood. A man and his wife approached and asked if I was putting up flyers on the wall. "No," I replied."How about this one," the man asked pointing at the shreds of a yellow flyer on a utility box.Perhaps he asked...

As Muslims around the world continue to deny basic human rights to women and non-Muslims, Muslim spokesmen maintain a pattern of denial and deception. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman, is facing death by stoning this week for adultery, a capital...

Western intellectuals and commentators refer to the enemy's ideology as: "Islamic Fundamentalism", "Islamic Extremism", "Totalitarian Islam", "Islamofascism", "Political Islam", "Militant Islam", "Bin Ladenism", "Islamonazism", "Radical Islam", "Islamism", etc.... The...

This is a continutation of Miss Peikoff's arguments presented in her previous article Further Arguments Against the NYC Mosque.A Facebook friend of mine brought to my attention two answers that Ayn Rand gave in her Q & A sessions that might be of use to us in this...

My peace plan is simple: Israel defeats its enemies. Victory uniquely creates circumstances conducive to peace. Wars end, the historical record confirms, when one side concedes defeat and the other wins. This makes intuitive sense, for so long as both sides aspire to...

Publisher's Note: Above artwork of Bosch's "Towering over Islam" is courtesy of: http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/06/03/towering-over-islam/In the last couple of weeks Objectivists have been debating whether our government should interfere with the construction of a...

In his remarks on Wall Street Reform Thursday, April 22, 2010 at Cooper Union in New York City, President Obama said this: I’m going to quote: “Through the great banking houses of Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another...

You’d think that members of Congress would have a keen knowledge of and appreciation for congressional history; you’d think they would know better than to repeat the mistakes made by their legislative body in the past. But if partisanship guides your...

Now that it has been revealed that not one, but two mosques are planned for the area around Ground Zero, the supremacist and triumphalist character of this effort is clearer than ever. Is the Muslim population of lower Manhattan so huge that one projected...

Noynoy Aquino President-Elect of the Republic of the Philippines Mr. President-Elect, congratulations on winning the election. I hope I was right in thinking you were the most promising of all the candidates. Mr. President-Elect, Keep your pledge not to raise taxes....

Answering a student’s question at a recent town hall meeting at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, here’s how President Obama  characterized the Arizona law that’s designed to crack down on illegal immigration: “You can imagine, if...

Polls measuring the political concerns of grassroots Americans consistently show that a majority is "extremely angry about government intrusion into personal lives." Despite that finding, a parochial, anti-conceptual view of politics predominates among political party...

Has the latest annual report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) caused any cognitive dissonance in Washington? It should have: ten Muslim countries were among the 13 designated by the USCIRF last Thursday as Countries of...

Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is another epic action movie—and a scathing indictment of taxation without representation, government control of wealth and religion, and abnegation of man’s rights. That the filmmakers ultimately misplace its theme—by...

Yet another injustice towards Goldman Sachs is circulating on the web. It's the publication of the fact that Goldman Sachs has financially supported Democrats over Republicans. The implicit or explicit conclusion is that Goldman is buying pull. Some bloggers have said...