The most equitable and just sharing of the burden of America’s military is assured by its all-volunteer nature, and that conscription would be inequitable and unjust.
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
The Single Greatest Obstacle to Health Care Quality
When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐quality producers.
The Free-Market vs. The Morality of Altruism
The Democrats are following through on the dictates of altruism. The Republicans are balking at what altruism demands without challenging the basic premise.
Covid-19 Lockdowns: Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.
Canadians Should Embrace Private For Profit Health Care
Why should Canadians embrace private health care as a moral alternative to medicare, as citizens of most other countries do?
Philosophical Detection: Diversity Demands for Hiring and Public Attacks on Minorities
Both actually stem from the same root: racism.
Contagion of Cowardice
Going against the grain and daring to stand up for truth in a time of totalitarianism is exceedingly dangerous.
Proud to Pay More is Proud to Make Others Pay Most of the Tab
A group including about 250 million- and billionaires calling themselves Proud to Pay More (P2PM) advocated the imposition of wealth taxes in an open letter to the “luminaries” meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
A 2024 Mid-Priced Automobile Sells for the Same $300 Price Paid for a Model T Ford in 1924
Today, the price of a paper dollar is just one gold cent.
The So-Called International Court of Justice Deserves No Respect Until It Addresses Hamas War Crimes
International law, and especially the law of war, is largely an academic enterprise. Enforced mechanisms are entirely political and not deserving of the respect accorded real judges.
Biden’s New Plan Threatens Health Coverage for More than Half a Million People
Biden’s proposal would eliminate consumer protections, throw sick patients out of their health insurance, and leave them to face sky-high medical bills without insurance for up to one year.
Biden Administration Bureaucrats on the Appliance Warpath
The Biden administration is not just tweaking regulations, it is effectively banning whole categories of appliances that are sold on the market to advance the President’s climate agenda.
Alexander Hamilton Did Not Espouse Massive Government, Militarism, or Protective Tariffs
Hamilton’s tariffs sought to maximize revenue, not help domestic manufacturing interests.
No Need to Panic on Climate Change
To do better on climate, we must resist the misleading, alarmist climate narrative. Panic is a terrible adviser.
Why Pure Socialism is Impossible
The establishment of a comprehensive system of socialist central planning would be equivalent to going back in time, before the institutions of private property and market competition had enabled the utilization of prices for rational decision-making.
Colorado Supreme Court Violated The U.S. Constitution By Removing Donald Trump From The Ballot
The 14th Amendment was never intended to be used to deny voters the right to decide who their next president would be in all future elections.
This Silence on The Fascist Response To Covid-19 Is Not Golden
The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who.
The Hard Left Has Finally Discovered Free Speech
Today’s “progressives” champion the First Amendment when it comes in defense of those who advocate the killing of Jews.
Doctors Without Borders Acts Like a Hamas Front
Doctors Without Borders holds itself out to be a politically neutral medical provider that cares about all people equally. That was its pretend pose when it won the Nobel Peace Prize. In actuality, it was always a hard-left group that played politics with medicine. But recent events have exposed the depths of its bigotry and destroyed its fraudulent claims of neutrality.
A Tale of Two Wars: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared to Israel and Ukraine
What is the ruling principle for America in regards to providing aid in war?
Why Not Do Something Before Social Security Runs Out of Money?
It is time we realized that there is no fair way out from government Social Security commitments that exceed the funds available.
Abolishing the FDA
FDA Policies Keep People Sick and Create a False Sense of Security
Government Undermines Health Care Quality, While Choice Promotes It
There’s no Democratic or Republican way to promote quality. There is only what works, and that’s letting consumers reward quality by making their own health decisions.
We Must Demand Justice for the January 6th Protestors!
The Congressional Committee set up under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “get to the bottom” of the “Trump-led insurrection” was an old-fashioned Soviet show trial, where the evidence was kept secret and the pre-determined verdict – guilty – was to be used to tighten the grip of the ruling regime and intimidate any further dissenters into silence.
Elon Musk’s Universal High Income vs. Universal Basic Income?
Elon Musk claim that humanity is headed for “universal high income” instead of UBI is possible to the extent that peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice prevail. That means reducing the power of the state rather than extending it with UBI or other collectivist social experiments.
Capitalism and World Peace
Laissez-faire capitalism is a system of world peace.
Global Tax On World’s Billionaires
Increasing taxes threatens future production to the detriment of all.
Counting the Deaths in Gaza
There is often no sharp line between combatants and civilians when it comes to Hamas terrorists and their facilitators, since Hamas does not have a regular army with uniforms and other criteria for distinguishing between the two.
Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Wars
It is impossible to understand the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflicts and the current war without understanding history, philosophy, and strategies.
Immigration Can Ease America’s Labor Shortage
“As we have tried to erect a fortress, so have we managed to build a prison.” Instead of a prison, let’s build a bridge.
Why the Left Keeps Winning
The Left keeps winning because its political opponents compromise time and again.
Ayn Rand on the Death of Innocents in War
Ayn Rand’s extemporaneous answers to questions from audience members after delivering remarks that were not primarily on the topic of war and peace, compiled by the Ayn Rand Institute.
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