Thursday
September 9, 2010 |
 On Businessmen Giving Back
by Kimberly O. Dennis
Giving back? what was taken? (Read more...)
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Thursday
September 2, 2010 |
 Revisiting Wealth Redistribution
by Tibor R. Machan
It is time to bring this ruse to an end. Those people’s scam should be shut down. Their phony authority to take from everyone so they can use it as they see fit--in the name that they are the nice guys who redistribute wealth while we the greedy bunch intent on keeping it for ourselves--must be abolished. They should be sent off to join Bernie Madoff by now. (Read more...)
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Allah Akbar!
by Brigitte Gabriel
“Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims.” (Read more...)
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The Mosque Fiasco
by Tibor R. Machan
There is a time to be righteous, yes, and when some truly despised organization such as those who have made the vile choice to built a mosque near ground zero of all places, then speaking up for their rights is arguably honorable and righteous. But it isn’t if those doing such speaking up forget about all the other rights human beings have that go neglected, unprotected, abused and violated throughout the land, not to mention the globe. (Read more...)
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A Lopsided Warning
by Tibor R. Machan
The greatest and bona fide threat to academic freedom does not come from BP and other big corporations. It comes from governments that are knee deep involved in American higher education and university scientific and technological research across the country. (Read more...)
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Two Insidious Trends in America
by Tibor R. Machan
Two powerful intellectual developments are ruining America. One is egalitarianism, the other pragmatism. (Read more...)
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 Gods of the Copybook Heading
by Rudyard Kipling
I found this in Glenn Beck's new book, "The Overton Window," the last few stanzas are given below. Written in 1919, the poem is eerily prophetic. He had a firm understanding of the welfare state.
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Risks and Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan
Free men and women are naturally risky types! Freedom is characterized by making it possible for people to make choices, even bad ones, just as in the case of the liberty of the press. Journalists, editorial writers, reporters and the lot who are free to do as they choose can and will do what is risky, and at times what is indeed outright malpractice. (Read more...)
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The Overton Window
by Bruno Behrend
A link to an article at another web site. (Read more...)
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No Excuse for Coercion
by Tibor R. Machan
For my money coercive force is not only when someone threatens to beat up or kill another unless that other does as told. I start much earlier, when someone presumes to have the authority to entice or nudge his or her fellow human beings to do as told (hoped for)! (Read more...)
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Nasty Effects of Egalitarianism
by Tibor R. Machan
Ideas do have consequences. You come to believe that you are invincible, you will take risks more readily. You believe government will bail you out, cover your debts up to a certain amount, you will borrow more (indeed, your financial advisor will tell you you should). You believe you can't lose at the roulette tables, you will wager more. (Read more...)
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Dealing with Racists in a Free Market
by Tibor R. Machan
Finally, the Rand Paul furor, we have an issue in politics worthy of sustained, serious attention--How should people who act badly be dealt with? More particularly how should people who discriminate based on irrelevancies such as race, sex, national origin, physical impediments, etc., be treated? Should they be punished and forced to do the right thing? Should they be ignored and left to rot with their evil souls. Should they be ostracized and boycotted? (Read more...)
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Freedom of Association and Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
This issue is timely now that Democrats and mainstream Republicans have finally found something with which to demonize Rand Paul, the libertarian Republican who pulled off a win in Tuesday's primary election in Kentucky. (Read more...)
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The Inescapable Importance of Philosophy: the Root of and Solution to our Problems
by Bob Palin
Have you ever wondered why seemingly intelligent, articulate people cannot seem to come to a consensus on the important issues facing our nation today? Or even on what the issues should be? Whether it’s the economy, foreign policy, immigration, gay marriage or any other issue you could name, the diversity of opinion is... (Read more...)
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Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration
by Harry Binswanger
Harry Binswanger's case against immigration quotas and for open immigration. (Read more...)
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The Folly of Fairness
by Tibor R. Machan
I just have no clear clue as to what fair trade or even fairness is supposed to be. (Read more...)
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Halt, Oh Curtain, Fall Not On Me
by Marty Lewinter
Halt, oh curtain, fall not on me. Many scenes have I yet to play. Happy audience fail not to see, On my grand stage, the shining day! Though now my face bears scars of time And my wounded smiles at times conceal My sun-lit pages of joyous rhyme That made my li... (Read more...)
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Skepticism about Government Regulation
by Tibor R. Machan
As the question goes, "Who is going to regulate the regulators when they engage in truly dangerous misconduct?" (Read more...)
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 Cities from Space
by Michael E. Marotta
... "city lights present the space observer spectacular evidence of our existence, our distribution, and our ability to change our environment..." (Read more...)
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 So then Be A Proud Socialist!
by Tibor R. Machan
It is disgusting to witness all the dishonesty surrounding the current administration's public policy efforts. Even the new language columnist of The New York Times Magazine is in denial and pretends to consider it some kind of smear--even conspiracy--for those not among Mr. Obama's fan base to refer Obama & Co. as socialists. Why? (Read more...)
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 CLASH OF THE TITANS 2010: "Atlas Flinched"
by Joseph C. Maurone
"For the moment, at least, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth, and mendacity rampant on Earth to last for some time." (Read more...)
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Logic of Democracy
by Alexander Feht
If everyone has equal voting rights, and the majority of population consists of imbeciles and parasites, these shall enjoy perpetual domination unless the state is run as corporation, that is, each vote acquires a vested weight proportional to total taxes paid. (Read more...)
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Is the U. S. Self-Interested?
by Tibor R. Machan
Who can dispute that self-defense is self-interested? Of course, with the prominence of altruism among intellectuals and public figures, it is probably no great surprise that Mr. Obama would reject characterizing American foreign policy as self-interested. "Selfish" has this bad odor about it and has had that since when philosophers, theologians and psychologists have decided that the human self is something malign. (Read more...)
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Grandpa’s Ghost
by James Erwin Poling
But possibly my fate is worse, or more insane, for I willingly choke my own life; straining against my collar at the very edge of my run, I refuse to acquiesce to my proscription. It is my own fault, I could submit, and lead a peaceful life barking on command with my neighbors--as the minions of Pavlov would have of me. I don’t think they deserve the satisfaction, and I cannot bring myself to allow it to them. (Read more...)
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The Parable of the Octopus Man
by Richard Gleaves
It wasn't anything serious, just a head cold-- a minor bit of sniffles. Every reputable doctor he visited told him to go home and drink fluids and sleep and he'd feel better within a few days. But, because Quincy was a hypochondriac, he continued searching until he found someone who told him what he wanted to hear. (Read more...)
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