POLITICS

Following is an Op-Ed I submitted to The Albuquerque Journal. It was rejected; so, I posted it to an on-line discussion group and to an activist group. I now post it here for the same reason that it was worth writing: it is a story that illustrates a particular...

  Like every ethical code, egoism has definite political implications. Just as the morality of self-sacrifice lays the groundwork for a particular kind of political system--one in which the government forces people to sacrifice (e.g., socialism, communism,...

  Now, despite its destructive nature, altruism is accepted to some extent by almost everyone today. Of course, no one upholds it consistently--at least not for long. Rather, most people accept it as true--and then cheat on it. All the major...

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...

http://www.youtube.com/v/20QXyU23UQQ Dr. Eric Daniels of Clemson University's Institute for the Study of Capitalism has lectured internationally on the history of American ethics, American business, and entrepreneurship, as well as the American Enlightenment. He has...

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...