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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Wednesday
November 19, 2008 |
 Paul K. Driessen and Ayn Rand: A Book and a Campaign to Change the World
by Manfred F. Schieder
Objectivists have an extraordinarily great opportunity to spread the Objectivist ideas on a worldwide basis, as applied to a most worthwhile cause: to raise the poor from their poverty on their own bootstraps. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 19, 2008 |
 Congress demands Amtrak's Sunset Limited be restored
by Sarah Karush
WASHINGTON - Until Hurricane Katrina ripped up the railroad tracks east of the Mississippi, Amtrak's Sunset Limited ran from Los Angeles to Sanford, Fla. The tracks were repaired long ago, but Amtrak didn't return east of New Orleans. The national passenger railroad has said that the service was ineffective and ... (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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 Obama’s Redistribution of wealth
by Miscellaneous Authors
This story has been making the rounds in e-mails. I can't be sure how true the actual incident is, but it does make an excellent point. (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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The Is-Ought Problem
by Dean Michael Gores
For thousands of years philosophers and thinkers have asked the question "What is the meaning of life?". People still ask this question and do not come up with self satisfying answers. I answer to your satisfaction. (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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How to Approach Unjust Laws
by G. Stolyarov II
How do we, as private citizens seeking justice, approach the many unjust laws existing today? What is the best way to act in order to ensure that the harms of these laws are minimized and that they are eventually repealed – without bringing harm on oneself or those for whom one cares? Mr. Stolyarov proposes a few guidelines for thinking about these questions. (Read more...)
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 University of Florida Outreach Engineering Management
by Luke Setzer
A young man once asked an old sea captain, "What do you do when you find your ship caught between a storm on one side and jagged rocks on the other?" The captain answered, "What you do is not get yourself into that situation in the first place." This article aims to help those considering a popular engineering management program to keep out of a potentially rough and dangerous situation. Laying a solid intellectual foundation and mapping a plan from start to finish before committing to this program will go a long way toward keeping you afloat once you set sail into the thick of it. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 17, 2008 |
Welfare State Follies
by Tibor R. Machan
By all historical accounts the fully free society has never been tried, so arguing about it will always be to a large extent theoretical. But than nearly all of contemporary astrophysics is theoretical, as it much of psychology and other social sciences in which controlled experiments are not possible or permissible. Based, however, on much thinking and research, some of it historical enough, there is no reasonable doubt about the benefit of human liberty in all realms of human endeavor. Unfortunately the sole trial has been conducted in the realm covered by the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, effecting religion and the arts and humanities (including journalism). And few other than out and out Fascists and theocrats deny that in these areas freedom has been all to the good! It may, therefore, be reasonably inferred that liberty would mostly likely serve us well in all areas of human concern, including the financial markets and even emergency services, two in which recent upheavals haven’t been dealt with swimmingly by the welfare state. That’s despite the fact that welfare state measures--namely vast government interference in various professions and ordinary human activities--are most often defended on the grounds that they are needed to prevent or cope with disasters, financial or natural! (Read more...)
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The Unseen Violation
by Joseph Rowlands
In Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson, he focuses on the different effects that are caused by particular economic policies. Specifically, he shows that some actions are very visible and people tend to look only at those. There's a second class of effects that are unseen. (Read more...)
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Another Problem with Welfare Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
A welfare or positive right, so called, is something that can only be protected by coercing others to provide it. Consider the right to health care. This supposed right can only be honored by making health care professionals provide services for those who have need for it. (Read more...)
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Crime and Poverty, Part I
by William Scott Dwyer
Welfare state liberals have been claiming for decades that poverty causes crime. It is an assertion that very few people ever question. But is it true? The current article views the relationship between poverty and crime in a wholly different light, and arrives at some startling and unconventional conclusions. (Read more...)
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Crime and Poverty, Part II
by William Scott Dwyer
Welfare state liberals have been claiming for decades that poverty causes crime. It is an assertion that very few people ever question. But is it true? The current article views the relationship between poverty and crime in a wholly different light, and arrives at some startling and unconventional conclusions. The second part of the article looks at the real causes of crime. (Read more...)
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How to Privatize the Roads: The Mechanisms and Benefits of Road Privatization
by G. Stolyarov II
Mr. Stolyarov demonstrates that the transfer of all roads to private ownership is feasible and desirable. He discusses how it might work and presents real-world instances in which it has worked. (Read more...)
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Is Religious Politics Libertarian?
by Tibor R. Machan
In many ways the principles of a fully free society are the most hospitable to the great variety of faithful in a large society. The main reason for this is that in such a free society the right to private property is strictly protected. Even more, the strict protection of the right to private property serves religion well because it establishes a culture of tolerance and non-interference among the different faithful. (Read more...)
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