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...
POLITICS
Further Arguments Against the NYC Mosque
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...
New Yorker's Attack on Heroic Freedom Fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an ex-Muslim who is guarded round-the-clock because of Islamic jihadist threats to murder her. She is also a fearless champion of human rights and especially the rights of women who suffer under the institutionalized discrimination mandated for them...
Fettered Markets
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...
Obama Klan's Attempt at a Modern-Day Alien and Sedition Acts: The DISCLOSE Act
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...
BP Oil Spill: Private Property is the Solution
For this article, let me be brief about the following facts, which are oil and water under the bridge. BP’s off-shore oil leases, like all off-shore oil leases, are leases to use federal property. (Hat tip to this article in The Freeman.) The land and water are...
Why There Should Be No Mosques at Ground Zero
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...
Moratorium One of Many Obama Oil Spill Mistakes
he order by a federal district court in Louisiana overturning President Obama’s six-month general moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico illustrates many of the mistakes the administration has made in handling this environmental disaster. ...
Philippines: Open Letter to Noynoy Aquino
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....
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 will...
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 political party...
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 have said...
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 inconsiderate jerks, the terrorists...
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 "no-nukes-palooza." Problem is, not...
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...
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