Gay Day for Gays. by Edward Hudgins May 10, 2012 -- President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage is likely to mean that in a decade or two this will no longer be a major public policy issue. Individuals of whatever gender will be able to enter into marriage contracts. But in the sh...(Read more...)
Physics has done away with the need for Philosophy! Or so says Lawrence Krauss in his book A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing. This article on NPR talks about the controversy that his claim has stirred up between physicists and philosophers. Interesting to read from the Objectivist v...(Read more...)
Taxed to Shrug by Edward Hudgins On Tax Day 2012 we’re greeted with the news that some 1,800 Americans, a record number, last year renounced their citizenship or turned in Green Cards. The principal reason was to avoid high American taxes. Particularly onerous is the fact that the United States, unique among ...(Read more...)
Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Hitchens! Posted by Ed Hudgins on 4/13, 5:30pm
Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Hitchens! By Edward Hudgins April 13, 2012 -- What an interesting coincidence! The author of America’s Declaration of Independence and Christopher Hitchens, the late journalist, intellectual, and author of a book on Jefferson, share an April 13th birthday! ...(Read more...)
ObamaCare's War on Personal Responsibility by Edward Hudgins April 9, 2012 -- Obamacare mandates that all citizens purchase health insurance. But Supreme Court justices ripped into the administration’s “purchase or be punished” law during oral arguments over Obamacare's constitutionality. So the administratio...(Read more...)
