 "Public" Abuse
by Tibor R. Machan
Run, don't walk, for the exit whenever someone begins to carry on about
the public interest, the public good, the public welfare and similar
allusions to deed and policies that supposedly advance us all. (Read more...)
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WSJ calls Ayn Rand for Treasury Secretary
by Jack Zhang
So is there a hope for Objectivism? Here (Read more...)
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Israel, Hamas, and I
by Tibor R. Machan
When one is bombarded with information about events the history of which
is ancient and so complex that hardly anyone commenting makes sense of
them, it is very tough to judge. That’s how it is with me and the
current upheaval between Israel and Hamas. (Read more...)
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A Revolutionary Struggle
by Tibor R. Machan
Be it welcome or not, there is a revolutionary struggle afoot in the world. It started when certain thinkers began to dispute the claims made by defenders of various rulers--monarchs, dictators, tsars and the like--that some people have a divine or natural right to run the lives of other people. (Read more...)
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In Obama We Trust
by Traci Kanaan
I ran into a former customer of my promotional products business today. He lost his job with "the county" and has been unemployed since July. I asked what he was doing in the meantime, and he said "Well, maybe I'll find something when this economy turns around."
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Saturday
December 27, 2008 |
Year End Pet Peeves
by Tibor R. Machan
Mostly I write on topics I suspect concern a wide enough audience.
Columnists don’t just write on anything that pops into their minds but
need to do a bit of service to reader-clients. But, if one has a regular
venue for one’s columns, it maybe fine, now and then, to indulge oneself
with a topic or two that’s more personal. Even these will, of course, aim
to please, if only by inviting reader-clients to know a bit of the writer. (Read more...)
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Saturday
December 20, 2008 |
Against USA, Inc.
by Tibor R. Machan
Government, even if democratic--meaning one that serves everyone in
society--is to be limited in its scope. That scope is to secure our
rights, just as the American Founders envisioned it. (Read more...)
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Bailout Is No Public Good
by Tibor R. Machan
The failures are a very good reason to stop all this wealth redistribution
and government regimentation--those folks up there in Washington,
Sacramento, Brussels, and the like just haven’t clue and thus all they can
do when they insist on “doing something” is to muddle about, pose,
pretend, or fake. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 10, 2008 |
Help me become the next Senator of Illinois
by Traci Kanaan
A Florida Comedian ponders life as the next Chicago Senator (Read more...)
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The FDR "Solution"
by Tibor R. Machan
It is a very scary prospect but if president-elect Barack Obama is
serious about admiring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for how the
latter dealt with America’s Great Depression, then America and the world
may be in for some very ugly times indeed. (Read more...)
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Big 3 Bailouts
by Traci Kanaan
A Comedian's Look at The Big 3 Bailouts (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 3, 2008 |
India, Government & Insecurity
by Tibor R. Machan
My impression is that if we had governments around the globe that
focused on their proper and properly limited job--namely, the securing or
protection of our rights--and they eschewed involvement in the
undertakings that's none of their business, there would be less terrorism
by far. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 26, 2008 |
No, I'm Not Mean
by Tibor R. Machan
No, I am not mean. I am personally a frequent contributor to
voluntary efforts to lend a hand even while my focus in my writings
happens to be mostly on eliminating coercion from human interactions. (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 20, 2008 |
Bailouts Destroy Prudence
by Tibor R. Machan
This is just one of thousands of results of the mixed economy, the
welfare state, in which your individuality is abolished and you are
treated as a member of some ant colony or bee hive. You will be
conscripted to be part of it all, never mind how sensibly you may figure
out to deal with the fiasco. (Read more...)
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Exceptions Not the Rule
by Tibor R. Machan
Many years ago I saw a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson who fell out of an airplane without a parachute, landed in a tree that slowed his fall and left him totally uninjured, and lived to write a best selling book about his experience. But, I am pleased to report, he did not become an advocate of everyone jumping out of airplanes. (Read more...)
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American Commissars
by Tibor R. Machan
My reason for focusing on these ideas is not so much to dispute them from the viewpoint of sound
political economy but to examine them as instances of rank and immoral political elitism.
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Obama, Franken and Socialism
by Tibor R. Machan
The race in Minnesota was still too close to call on Friday, November 7th
but the fact that Senator Obama, who had by than become president elect of
the United States, made a strong plea for electing Mr. Franken is a
significant and distressing clue to what we are in for over the next
several years. (Read more...)
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This Strange Thing Called Capitalism
by Manfred F. Schieder
A short analysis of what Capitalism really is. (Read more...)
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Of Gentlemanliness, Etiquette, and Professionalism
by W Chase
Mr. Anspaugh discusses and analyzes his experience with the mainstream pedagogy of etiquette, style, and professionalism. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
October 22, 2008 |
The Socioeconomics of Divorce
by W Chase
Mr. Anspaugh illustrates the important and pervasive role that socioeconomics plays in the dynamics of marriage and divorce, within the scope of the economic, political, and legal environment, as well as the cultures of values that exist in society at large. (Read more...)
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Whistling in the Dark
by Tibor R. Machan
It is hardly ever disputed among honest political economists that most Western countries, including the United States, are welfare states or mixed economies. Unlike, say, a fascist or socialist country, in a relatively free society if a substantial number of voting citizens champion a system that undermines the very li... (Read more...)
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Futility of Egalitarianism
by Tibor R. Machan
The ancient Greek myth of Procrustes’ bed has it that the bed had the attribute of being exactly as long as anyone who lay down on it. Procrustes didn't disclose to his guests his scheme that those who laydown on this extraordinary bed got manipulated so that if they were too short for the bed they had their legs ch... (Read more...)
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What Politicians Should Say
by Tibor R. Machan
Here is what members of Congress should tell the voting public: "Ladies and Gentleman, you asked for it and now you have got it, good and hard." (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 30, 2008 |
The Nanny State Did it
by Paul Hibbert
This was originated as a response to an editorial on Aug. 12 in the Santa Fe, NM: "Our View: Bush 'fesses up: It's Wall Street's Fault." It's more pertinent today than when it was written. The current crisis can be securely placed on the excess of government interference in the financial sphere than on the lack of regulations. (Read more...)
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Social Security - What a Deal!
by Merlin Jetton
The article gives a financial analysis of Social Security as it applies to me. It also remarks on the personal retirement accounts proposed a few years ago and Chile's reform of its Social Security - like system. (Read more...)
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