Wednesday
September 8, 2004 |
 True Educational Freedom
by Edward W. Younkins
The best school choice plan is the free market. Education should be bought and sold through free-market processes. The separation of state and education would restore intellectual freedom, academic integrity, and individual achievement. The private market can best provide high-quality and efficient education services. ... (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Is Libertarianism Simplistic?
by Tibor R. Machan
All areas of interest to us in the world can be subsumed under fairly simple principles, but it is also quite clear that this doesn’t mean these principles are simplistic. That would involve denying the nuances and challenges that come very naturally whenever principles are being used to figure things out, to guide our conduct. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Politicians Cannot Make Jobs
by Tibor R. Machan
President Bush made one good point, at least, in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City. This was that all he could do to help with job-creation is to remove obstacles to it. (Read more...)
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Deja Vu
by Adam Reed
Barbara Branden wrote, "By the fall of 1940," Ayn Rand "had only seven hundred dollars left. It was under these circumstances that she took three months off from writing, using the last of her savings, to work for the election of Wendell Willkie." In 1940 Ayn Rand was 35. I am 58 in 2004, and ought to be wiser. (Read more...)
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Saturday
September 4, 2004 |
The Immorality of Conscription
by Jonathan R
No matter how one rationalizes it—duty, the Constitution, necessity, practicality, shared sacrifice—conscription abrogates a man’s right to his life and indentures him to the state. As President Reagan recognized (at least rhetorically), “[T]he most fundamental objection is moral”; conscription “destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending.”
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Think About It
by George W. Cordero
Hey, I have been reading here on this website a little bit and I can’t help but think that all you guys are weirdos. You guys just don’t get it, do you? I mean, all this crap about how bad it is to for the government to run things and all. And if that’s not enough you guys got the nerve to disrespect the Almighty Himself! Well, let me tell you a thing or two, Mr. and Mrs. Know-it-all. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 2, 2004 |
John Kerry Reporting for Duty
by Barbara Branden
For the past year, I have thought that John Kerry was both weak and a hypocrite. Recently, since information about his Vietnam "service" has come out, I realized that he also was a liar. Today, I am beginning to think that the man is demented. Either that, or he thinks that his audiences are of subnormal intelligence and have no memories. Or both. (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 2, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - Business & Government: A Perverse Union
by Tibor R. Machan
When the government is assigned the job by means of the political process to regulate industry, industry will naturally defend itself by the same means. All those lobbyists are merely voicing grievances, as per our Constitution, to politicians. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 1, 2004 |
Giuliani
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
A re-run of Chris Sciabarra's 1999 Free Radical article, 'A New New York,' in light of the debate about Giuliani on this page following his speech yesterday at the Republican Party's Convention. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 1, 2004 |
Machan's Musings - The Nonsense of "Social Wealth"
by Tibor R. Machan
Although it is often the case that human actions and institutions significantly rearrange the world, there is, in fact, an arrangement that’s natural prior to this (history of) rearrangement. It’s a bit like all that body surgery that goes on in Hollywood and elsewhere — the significantly rearranged faces, breasts, lips, and such had, at one time, a non-artificial or "natural" configuration, for good or for ill. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Stakeholder Nonsense
by Tibor R. Machan
Some advocates of the stake-holder theory, even some free market champions, want it only to put people like those who own the gym on notice that they ought to keep in mind the side-effects of their business decisions. But this is definitely the minority. Those who invented the theory meant, without a doubt, to have the idea be enforced by law, not leave it merely to the good will of the major business involved. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings - Environmental Extremism
by Tibor R. Machan
It is really outrageous ... that those who defend human habitation in these areas are dismissed as nothing but crass profiteers, as if building homes for people were not every bit as honorable a task as giving them an education, providing for their medical care, or helping them to find good vacation spots. (Read more...)
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Machan's Musings: Lapham's Real Blooper
by Tibor R. Machan
They have no fondness, as a party, for the free market — it is certainly not their "answer to every maiden’s prayer." Very far from it, what with their advocacy of farm subsidies, price support, and innumerable protectionist measures, not to mention their belief that government ought to get into the prescription drug and related businesses. You name it, and the Republicans have completely embraced the welfare state, as part of their compassionate conservatism. (Read more...)
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Thirty Great Crapolae Of Our Time
by Lindsay Perigo
A by-no-means-exhaustive litany of nonsense and nincompoopery, poppycock and piffle, bunkum and balderdash of this, the Age of Crap ... in no particular order. (Read more...)
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"Atlas Shrugged": A Novel of Human Action
by Edward W. Younkins
Atlas Shrugged is the systematic dramatization of a rational philosophy that includes a view of life as exaltation and of the universe as benevolent. It depicts conflict in action between whim-worshipping looters who seek power over men and the creators who accept, learn, and deal with the absolute laws of nature and existence. (Read more...)
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Jose Pinera
by James Kilbourne
While most lovers of liberty sit around and debate how many anarcho-capitalists can dance on the head of a pin, Jose Piñera is flying around the world saving it. (Read more...)
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The Olympics: Globalisation Galore!
by Tibor R. Machan
Anyone who thinks globalization is some novel phenomenon in the world only needs to check in on the Olympic Games—indeed, think back to them in ancient and modern times, to realize how wrong is that idea. (Read more...)
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Democracy: Who Needs It?
by Paul Hibbert
Democracy is coercive by its very nature but by dint of the maturation of capitalism to its present form it allows another means of constructing a society — one created by capitalists, devoid of coercion.
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Shoot The Bastards?
by Reginald Firehammer
There are not many who seek freedom for themselves, and you can be sure they have no interest in yours or mine. In the struggle for liberty, we must take our friends and allies wherever we find them. (Read more...)
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The "Immorality" of a Concerto of Deliverance
by Monart Pon
The title of the album I’m presenting is not “The Concerto of Deliverance”, indicating a supreme or ultimate or sui generic status. It is also *not* a depiction of Richard Halley’s Fifth Concerto. It is: “Concerto of Deliverance” -- implying that it is *a* “Concerto of Deliverance”, an original work inspired by a contemplation of Rand’s description of such music. (Read more...)
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Libertarians and the Elections
by John Hospers
In the current campaign, many libertarians are objecting that social security was not instantly privatized, that public education was not abolished, and so on; but much as we still cling to these ideals, it's hard to initiate them while one's house is on fire. (Read more...)
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2004 Presidential Race Prediction
by James Kilbourne
George W. Bush is going to win. The American people will see to that. And remember that Reagan’s greatest accomplishments came during his second term. If Bush gets hit by a bus tomorrow, he will go down as a great President. But his second term may remind us of Reagan’s famous line during the 1984 election: “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” (Read more...)
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Caught Up in The Rapture
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Religion is being used by the representatives of government and politically constituted groups as a statist tool for the remaking of the modern world. And therein lies the danger. ... (Read more...)
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Discussion Forums
by Erich von Dietz
The Setting: an internet website created for the purpose of bringing together people of shared interest; in this case the forum is centered around: Objectivist philosophy. The forum is supposed to serve as a vehicle by which people can express themselves on a wide range of topics (from the trivial to the highly complex) within the context of an Objectivist perspective. (Read more...)
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How Bush Terminated Stem Cell Research in America
by Adam Reed
If you develop products that the Bush administration disapproves of, you will not be allowed to sell them. This amounts to a de-facto ban on private industry investment in disapproved stem-cell research. With the exception of a few tiny efforts by the surviving remnants of non-profit institutions without federal funding, stem-cell therapy research has been terminated in America. (Read more...)
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