Revised February 18, 2009 Ayn Rand[1] and Leonard Peikoff[2] have written about how the ideas of Nazi Germany are taking hold in the United States. The election of Obama as President is a large step down that same deadly road to a Nazi-style state. Here is a passage from a widely-known but not widely-read book […]
Based on Obama’s State of the Union (SOTU) address and everything else Obama has said and done as President, I suggest these slogans and talking points that capture the essence of Obama: Let me be clear. I will plan your life. Period. By taking your money so that it is spent on my plans for […]
A few years ago, I saw a three-year-old child open a book of sheet music, place it on her toy piano, and begin banging on the keys. I immediately thought, “Oh, that’s Obama.” Of course, Obama is not really like that innocent, healthy, normal three-year-old. Obama is the equivalent of someone who forces concert pianists […]
In 2010, I responded as follows to Obama’s promise—now discredited even in the mainstream media—that “you can keep your doctor” under Obamacare: But every other American, even if he “couldn’t afford it” before, will be able to have your doctor too. You will have to share your doctor with all these additional people. In 2011, […]
Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and several others took a heroic stand, voting No on cloture today, knowing that Senator Harry Reid would follow cloture by stripping the Obamacare-defunding provision from the funding bill sent to the Senate by the House. Roughly half the Republican Senators did not stand with Senators Cruz and Lee, and […]
Imagine not being able to beat Romney in a political debate. In the first Presidential debate of 2012, Romney humiliated Obama by going as far Left as Obama dared go before a national audience. Consequently, there was no choice for voters regarding ideology; the choice was limited to a question of competency. The choice was […]
There were no new specific policies in President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night. As always, Obama wants the government to increase its initiation of physical compulsion in manufacturing, the energy industry, education, and medicine, to name a few aspects of human life. But the final passage provides a pithy […]
The outcry over remarks by Obama last week in Roanoke, VA has been refreshing but surprising, considering this very similar passage from Obama’s last State of the Union Address: No one built this country on their [sic] own. This nation is great because we built it together. This nation is great because we worked as […]
After hearing and reading many commentaries on President Obama’s “hot mic” conversation with Russian President Medvedev on Monday, I hold to what I wrote that day on the News page of this blog. This was the conversation: Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for […]
Rob a man who fishes, and you feed yourself for a day. Trade with a man who fishes, and you have a potential source of food—and so many other things that this free, thinking man might create—for a lifetime. Of course, trading requires that you work to produce something worth trading for. Well, that’s life. […]