Andy: Andy Clarkson here with John Lewis of the Charlotte Tea Party, April 15, 2009. John: April 15, Taxes are due today. Did you not know that? (Laughter) Andy: Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Yeah, I heard about that. I heard rumors. John,...
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
What 'Right' to Health Care?
As the issue of health care reform builds to a legislative climax, it is important that we not merely parrot the same kinds of proposals we have seen for the past 50 years. A Point of View writer on [the Raleigh News-Observer] lamented that “after a half-century...
War and the “Peaceful Majority”
Here’s a fascinating quote attributed to online writer Paul E. Marek: “The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ‘silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to...
The Police and Laws Are No Substitute for Moral Values
A civilized society’s first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions and moral values. Behavioral norms, mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages...
Survival Optional
It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been happening in recent times in the United States, and in Western civilization in general, suggests that survival is taking a back seat to the shibboleths of political...
An Interview with Dr. John Lewis
The greatest threat is our own failure to understand the nature of our rights, and to recognize the moral goodness of a nation founded to protect those rights.
The Housing Boom and Bust
In the spirit of bipartisanship, my newest book– “The Housing Boom and Bust”– shows how both Democrats and Republicans ruined both the housing markets and the financial markets. Like so many disasters, the current economic crisis grew out of...
The Politics of Stupidity: Crazy Word Games from Team Obama
It looks like the “intelligence” in the Obama administration isn’t too intellectual. Instead of using the word “terrorism” to describe things such as the terrorist attack on 9/11, Janet Napolitano, head of Obama’s Department of...
Parting Company: Rick Perry and Seceding From The Union
Texas Gov. Rick Perry rattled cages when he suggested that Texans might at some point become so disgusted with Washington’s gross violation of the U.S. Constitution that they would want to secede from the union. Political hustlers, their media allies and others,...
Words Versus Realities
Much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I must report the shocking facts: Medical care is medical care. Nothing more and nothing less. This may not seem like a breakthrough on the frontiers of knowledge. But it completely contradicts what is being said by many of...
The Charlotte Tea Party Speech
It is high time for a tea party in America!
Are You an “Extremist”?
While the rest of us may be worried about violent Mexican drug gangs on our border, or about terrorists who are going to be released from Guantanimo, the Director of Homeland Security is worried about “right-wing extremists.” Just who are these right-wing...
It’s Time to Nationalize Grocery Stores ;)
One of the great scandals of our age is the fact that America spends more on food than any other nation. Many political leaders are now calling for urgent reform to bring spending on food under control. While food spending is rapidly increasing and many Americans are...
Magic Numbers in Politics
Words are not the only things that enable political rhetoric to magically transform reality. Numbers can be used just as creatively– and many voters are even more gullible about statistics than they are about words, apparently because statistics seem more...
Abhorrence of Democracy and Mob Rule
Democracy and majority rule give an aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be deemed tyranny. Think about it. How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process? How about the decision...
Tax Cuts and the “Trickle Down” Economics Straw Man
Among the suggestions being made for getting the American economy moving up again is a reduction in the capital gains tax. But any such suggestion makes people on the left go ballistic. It is “trickle down” economics, they cry. Liberals claim that those...
Taxation 101: Who Pays Corporate Taxes?
When we think about government spending, and the taxes needed to finance its spending, we should also think of the effects of taxation. Suppose I hire you to repair my computer. The job is worth $200 to me and doing the job is worth $200 to you. The transaction will...
Magic Words in Politics
China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government bonds. But, instead of buying more of those bonds as our skyrocketing national debt leads to more bonds being issued, China has been selling some of its U.S. government bonds this year. The Chinese are no fools....
Iran Has ICBM Power
Iran marked the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution with a successful launch of its first indigenous satellite on Feb. 2. The Omid — “Hope” in Farsi — satellite was launched via the Iranian-produced satellite carrier Safir-2 —...
Taxes and Prosperity Lost
Ask the average person which is the correct answer to the following question: Which president gave the biggest tax cuts for the rich — Reagan or Bush? I would bet the rent money that you would not get the correct response, which is: Presidents have no taxing...
CEObama: The Car Czar
As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for — you just might get it. Just ask American car makers. In December, the CEOs of General Motors and Chrysler flew, hat in hand, to Washington. They needed billions of taxpayer dollars to stay out of bankruptcy...
Death and Taxes and the Motive of Governement-Managed Health Care
When you file your taxes this year, consider this certainty: As an ever-increasing amount of our taxes are appropriated for government spending on health care, tax policy ultimately has little to do with attempting to improve the quality and affordability of health...
Mob Rule Comes to Washington: Capitalism as a Scapegoat for Government Intervention
In dealing with AIG, why are people pussyfooting around? They believe that the bonus money was stolen from the public and must be retrieved by any means possible. So why not bypass the niceties and just send in some well-armed “enforcers” to confiscate the...
Misrepresenting “How We Arrived at This Moment”: Obama Evades Government’s Role in the Financial Crisis
What must be done to recover from this financial crisis? Barack Obama rightly stresses that we first must understand how today’s problems emerged. It is “only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of...
Government Deception About Government Finances
Most Americans accept the continuing attack on tobacco companies and smokers, but how do they feel about the massive government deception? In 1998, 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies signed the Master Settlement Agreement. The major tobacco...
Physics By Induction: The Genius of Learning Science The Proper Way
My students had the extreme good fortune of being taught physics by David Harriman, a scholar of physics who is currently writing a book on the influence of philosophy on the history of physics. With his vast knowledge of physics and pedagogy, Mr. Harriman designed a...
Random Thoughts: April 2009
Random thoughts on the passing scene: I am so old that I can remember when music was musical. Now that the federal government says that it will stand behind the warranties on General Motors’ automobiles, does that make you more likely or less likely to buy a car...
Obama at the London G20 Summit
In his news conference following the London G20 Summit on April 2, Obama said this: In terms of local politics, look, I’m the President of the United States. I’m not the President of China, I’m not the President of Japan, I’m not the...
Going John Galt and the Need for a Moral Defense for Capitalism
As we gaze into an uncertain future it seems that there is a storm looming over the horizon–and for once, I am not referring to our current economic woes. Rather, I am identifying the fact that America is finally beginning to stir. Across the country there...
Our Problem Is Immorality
Most of our nation’s great problems, including our economic problems, have as their root decaying moral values. Whether we have the stomach to own up to it or not, we have become an immoral people left with little more than the pretense of morality. You say,...
Barack Obama: A Rookie President
Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game. We now have a rookie President of the...
Obama and The “Great” Nation of Iran
The President of the United States doesn’t care about the rights of individuals. He only cares about the power of governments.
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