A More Fundamental Problem
It struck me, the other day, just how much time I have to spend making a case that so-called “moderate” wings of the dreadful movements that America faces are effectively indistinguishable from the...
View ArticleShell Game
I don’t normally watch The Daily Show, but I caught part of an episode by accident today. In it, Jon Stewart was grilling a former Republican congressman about his opposition to Obama’s massive...
View ArticlePanel Discussion on Obama’s Speech and Jindal’s Response
President Barack Obama delivered a speech before both houses of Congress last Tuesday and Lousiana governor Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response shortly afterwards. Given the gravity of the...
View ArticleHybrids: A Malignant Mythology
Congress and the media’s continual criticism of the domestic auto industry is that they lost out because they weren’t being enough like Toyota. (No, I don’t mean using non-union labor. Of course they...
View ArticleAnother One Bites The Dust
Chrysler has filed for bankruptcy. The only good thing about the prospect of automakers going into bankruptcy was that it was a chance for the government to un-do the damage it did by coercing them to...
View ArticleImmigration – A Very Qualified “yes” and Several Badly Needed Questions
I will start out by saying that I agree in principle with the Standard Objectivist Position On Immigration. The central solution to most current problems is to reform immigration law and abolish...
View ArticlePassing thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
The “Occupiers” are shamefully ignorant. Ignorant of the other 99%: the 99% of corporations that do nothing wrong. And another point of their ignorance is: what is the distinguishing attribute of the...
View ArticleEnding Our Immoral Tax Code
Lately, there have been some proposals in the political mainstream for a flat tax system. Such proposals are very much worth considering. The current tax code, with its system of deductions and...
View ArticlePassing Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street, Part II
Some more passing thoughts on OWS: Their primary impetus seems to be that someone read Marx and told them that the rich are taking their wealth from the rest of us. This was untrue in the 19th century...
View ArticleYou’re Doing It Wrong
If your actions are indistinguishable from a Jim Crow era lynching except for which color of skin is on which side of the mob, then you’re doing the whole anti-racism thing wrong. Dr. King said that he...
View ArticleThe Morality Police
I find it very interesting that the Left likes to complain about the members of the Right – specifically those called Social Conservatives – who are out to be “The Morality Police.” Not because the...
View ArticleFirst, Do No Harm
Health care, like all goods and services, is a limited resource. Once it is removed from market forces by turning it over to the government and giving it away for “free*,” rationing is the inevitable...
View ArticleBelated Election Thoughts
People don’t learn from economic disasters alone. History has shown again and again that no matter how stark a disaster proves that a policy has failed, people can be convinced that the failure was due...
View ArticleRoot Causes
Dated 12/14/2012: I’m not going to talk about guns right now. I’m sure someone is going to call for some law at some point, and drag me into that. But, right now, I want to highlight that sick,...
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The Dunces Who Would Control Us
Before the blood had even dried from the Sandy Hook mass murder, the control-freaks in the media and Washington were already screeching for new laws to infringe and destroy our right to keep and bear...
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