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....
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Bloggers Under Attack By The State; Free Speech:Use It or Lose It
“We’re from the government and we’ll have to revoke your blogging license if you keep spreading too much ‘misinformation.’” A few years ago, such a warning would have seemed far-fetched. But recent developments threaten to turn this...
Great Depression II: Key Indicators of a New Depression
With the mainstream media focusing on the country’s leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nascent housing recovery, one might think that the US government has successfully navigated the economy through recession and growth has returned. But I...
Mi Casa es en Pakistan
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...
Remarks on Restructuring Government
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...
Big O in Islamic Wonderland
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...
No Defense of Deficits: Beware Dr. James Galbraith's Snake Oil
As the Greek welfare state collapses, citizens there have been rioting over cutbacks in social spending necessitated by mounting government debt. The rioters apparently fail to recognize that whenever a government routinely promises to spend more money than it has,...
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood: A Hero For Our Times
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...
Redeeming Reform
Does American history move in only one direction—toward government domination of every detail of our daily lives? Did we reach a high-water mark of government power when ObamaCare was signed into law? Or was that just the crest of a wave that will sweep away the...
Profits Are for People
Forbidding profit in medical care replaces life with death, liberty with force, and the pursuit of happiness with self-sacrifice. Let’s not kill health care and our freedom at the same time.
Justice for Goldman Sachs
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...
Why James Taranto is Clueless on Mohammed Drawings
James Taranto just doesn’t get it with respect to “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” which I have endorsed and promoted. Here are the essential lines of Taranto’s April 26 column entitled, “Everybody Burn the Flag: If we don’t act like...
Draw Mohammed America!
Americans do not cower over death threats made against those practicing their First Amendment rights. Americans do do stand idly by while terrorist thugs treat our Bill of Rights like toilet paper. As an American, I may hate what you say, and I may loudly condemn you...
Criminalizing Profit: Why Goldman Sachs is Not the Real Enemy
The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs misled its customers as to how a synthetic collateralized debt obligation was created. They do not argue that Goldman Sachs lied about the value or nature of the deal, but instead, that it had omitted and misstated facts in its...
Obama's Inept Nuclear Strategy: Building Down Will Trigger A Rogue Build Up
On April 6, the Obama administration released its new nuclear strategy; on Thursday, the prez inked a new nuke treaty with the Russians in Prague. This week, he’s hosting an all-world atomic affair in Washington. It’s a veritable...
Illegal Immigration: America's Cross to Bear
When it comes to illegal immigration, I disagree with the “round ‘em up, ship ‘em out” folks and am against the new Arizona law for two broad reasons: For one, the so-called “threat” of illegal immigration is illusory when one looks...
The Left's Double Standard Against The Tea Party Movement
The Left is now attacking the Tea Party movement as being violent. The only thing violent in that movement is my anger at this charge. How dare the Left, steeped in a long bloody record of violence, make this claim? The public’s memory may be short, but mine...
Use Bankruptcy Courts Not More Financial Regulation
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan considered those nine words the most terrifying in the English language. And the government has been offering a lot of such help lately. Most recently, of course, is the...
"File-Sharing":It's Not Stealing Because I Don
When Boston University grad student Joel Tenenbaum was recently charged for illegally downloading and distributing thirty songs, he did not express remorse. Instead, he likened the situation to underage drinking, saying, “I don’t regret drinking...
ObamaCare vs. the Hippocratic Oath
Do we want a government-run medical system which forces doctors to choose between treating their patients in accordance with their best judgment or sacrificing their patients to keep their jobs?
Iran's Nuclear Program: What Is Known and Unknown
Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad celebrated the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 revolution on February 11 by proclaiming that Iran is a “nuclear state.”[1] Iran’s radical Shia Islamist regime clearly sees its nuclear program as a...
Dr. Jack Cassell: Hero
Jack Cassell is too much for some people.He’s the Florida doctor who told his patients to go elsewhere for treatment if they voted for Obama. The message posted on his office door: “If you voted for Obama, seek urological care elsewhere. Changes to your...
The Deadly Tax on Medical Innovation
A government that penalizes innovation could dramatically slow the pace of medical progress, leading to millions of preventable deaths. And this may be one of the worst long-range consequences of the recently passed ObamaCare health legislation.
Profits Are for People
Those who advocate for government controls in medicine cry, “People, not profits.” They say profits are unacceptable in medicine because our health is so important. But it is precisely because our health is so important that profits must be vigorously...
What About Private Health Emergencies?
Drug companies should never have to look toward Washington, D.C., bowing and begging for bureaucratic permission to save lives–a million lives, or just one.
Will Religious Conservatives Hijack the Tea Party Movement?
Both the L.A. Times (March 11) and the NY Times (March 12) ran articles on the secularism of the Tea Party movement. Both said that the leaders and the grass roots base of the movement are concerned with economic issues much more than the “social” issues...
Turning Medicine into Political Football
During President Obama’s final push for “universal health care” legislation, his biggest obstacle was not Republicans but rather anti-abortion Democrats let by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan). Stupak eventually reached a last-minute deal with...
The Destruction of the Health Insurance Industry
What passes for “reform” in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms. Why? Because, we are told, it is immoral for anyone to make a profit providing health insurance. Virtue, in this view, is restricted to those who impose government insurance on...
The Real ObamaCare Fraud
These government-mandated “quality” and “cost effectiveness” measures will thus place doctors in a position where they are punished for upholding their Hippocratic Oath to treat patients according to their best ability and rewarded for violating it.
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
Disney writer Linda Woolverton (Mulan, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and director Tim Burton thoroughly reconfigure Lewis Carroll’s literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Disney’s new, computerized adaptation, which bears some...
Government Plans to Loot Your Retirement Account
In a proposal entitled EBSA Proposed Rules, the Labor and Treasury departments are requesting information from employers, employees, financial institutions and others regarding Retirement Accounts. They “are asking for public input about the use of annuities in...
Obama's Magic Health Care Wand
The fields of ethics, knowledge and general philosophy are more fundamental than psychology. These fields refer to the nature of ideas; psychology deals with ideas as people hold them in their minds, along with the attendant emotional consequences when contradictory...
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