Private Property is the Solution For this blog entry, let me leave aside 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 owned by the […]
I love movies in the Romantic tradition of heroic characters engaged in the ingenious and passionate pursuit of important values. I love what Ayn Rand calls the “benevolent universe.” [—Added 5/2/10.] These are movies that I look forward to seeing again and again. There are many movies I have not yet seen, so I may […]
In his remarks on Wall Street Reform last Thursday, April 22, 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 in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed… would rivet upon […]
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. […]
This is from a press release by the Florida Attorney General on Tuesday, March 23: Attorney General Bill McCollum today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Labor alleging the Health Care Reform bill signed into law by President Obama this […]
This week, I participated for the first time in the Objectivist Round Up, a weekly blog carnival of posts submitted by Objectivist bloggers. (Personally, I call myself a student of Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand.) The carnival is maintained by Rational Jenn, and this week’s carnival was hosted by Reepicheep’s Coracle. Topics of posts […]
Yesterday, speaking on a university campus, Obama said this: You know, the naysayers said that Social Security would lead to socialism. [Laughter.] The audience laughed with Obama. Of course, if they were to laugh at all, they should have laughed at him. Of course Social Security has been leading to more and more socialism. Look […]
Today Pelosi, Hoyer, and other Democrats introduced another guy who needs the government’s help to pay for health care. He is Ed Morris, a small business owner who says he cannot afford to pay for his employees’ health insurance anymore because of skyrocketing premiums. Let’s leave aside that, as one conservative blogger noted, this guy’s […]
Yesterday, in an interview with Fox News, Obama said this: [T]here are a lot more people who are concerned about the fact that they may be losing their house or going bankrupt because of health care. Earlier in the week, Obama and numerous other Democrats made a big deal about how a particular woman, ‘Natoma’ […]
As the Obama regime and Democrats in Congress this week make another thrust for more socialized medicine, in the fascist style of exerting control over ‘private’ businesses and individuals, it seems that America’s only hope for the failure of this thrust is that the tyrants in both parties might fail to agree on the precise […]