Politics

To the Wealthiest Five Percent

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to the joint US Congress in Washington yesterday, and received numerous standing ovations. Here is an excerpt of what Brown said. My father was a Minister of the Church and I have learned again what I was taught by him: that wealth should help more than the wealthy, that […]

Politics

Tyrant at “the Helm”

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In a press briefing with Gordon Brown yesterday, Obama said The Prime Minister has taken the helm of the British economy. One can only conclude that Obama thinks there is a “helm” to the American economy too. In a free society, the economy is the sum of production and trades of goods and services. There […]

Art

Laughter, Weeping, and Crying

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This post may be of interest particularly to my friends in the dramatic arts, but who’s not interested in drama? Observe that people rarely cry or weep in the heat of battle. It just would not have been practical for the mind and body to have been designed that way. If a warrior sees his […]

Politics

Obama vs. Ayn Rand

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In his Weekly Address yesterday, Obama said, “I didn’t come here to do the same things we’ve been doing … .” After all, Obama is for “change.” Before Obama took over the country, and even before Bush’s 2008 financial bailouts, federal, state, and local governments were spending the astronomical sum of roughly $5 trillion dollars […]