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C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity
Ayn Rand Facebook | Ayn Rand
Dennis Prager It's a Civil War: What We Do Now
Thomas Sowell Race and Politics: Part I
"Minarchists such as [Tibor Machan] are libertarians with regard to all goods and services except those they arbitrarily label as “governmental.” Regarding those, they are socialists pure and simple, conceptually indistinguishable from their fellow socialists, in this one arena." Walter Block Anarchism and Minarchism; No Rapprochement Possible: Reply to Tibor Machan
Radley Balko Reason.com "I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don’t trust anything."
Tibor R. Machan Anti-Libertarian Point Refuted
William Norman Grigg author of the blog Pro Libertate
"The seminal error is to insist on exceptions to the principle that government – assuming, of course, that one should be permitted to exist – must be strictly limited to protecting the life, liberty, and property of every individual." William Norman Grigg the blog Pro Libertate
John Locke Second Treatise of Civil Government
Barack Hussein Obama
"I maintain, however, that the effectiveness of government versus that of private arrangements to produce goods and services is irrelevant to the issue of the desirability of government in a libertarian society. Governments are not created to produce goods and services for citizens. Rather, they are created and imposed on people by force, most often for the purpose of transferring resources from the control of those outside government to the control of those within it. Without government—or even with a weak government—predatory groups will impose themselves on people by force and create a government to extract income and wealth from these subjects." Randall G. Holcombe Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable
"While Friedman’s theoretical work is universally admired by professional economists, there’s much more ambivalence about his policy pronouncements and especially his popularizing. And it must be said that there were some serious questions about his intellectual honesty when he was speaking to the mass public." Paul Krugman Reason.com, article about Krugman, threaded comments starting at 11:51pm on 5.7.10
"Also invariably critics on the left accuse libertarians of being "selfish" and "greedy" and being for rich people and against ordinary people. This charge is so far off the mark and beside the point it is almost impossible to respond to. It’s like accusing a computer of being short. It has nothing to do with what a computer is." Doug Carkuff "Neither Left Nor Right" at LewRockwell.com
....today there is little economic freedom in America. And almost from our first day as a Nation, there was little monetary freedom; now, there is none. Henry Mark Holzer Gold and Monetary Reform
Emma Lazarus http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ArticleDiscussions/2217_2.shtml#55
Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it’s time to try something new. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let’s meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let’s try common sense. President Barack Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
Arnaud de Borchgrave Washington Times
Ayn Rand Voice of Reason
Aristotle
anonymous (email from a friend)
Jim Henshaw Reason.com , "David Weigel Resigns From the Washington Post", 6.26.10 @ 9:29PM
H. L. Mencken LewRockwell.com
"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' " Ayn Rand jittery.com
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, October 16, 1854, title page of Book IV of Nancy Kress's "Beggars in Spain"
Fred Bartlett The Third Depression thread
... the long-running debate between big government and small government misses the point; it isn’t relevant to today’s challenges. President Barack Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/13/president-obama-announces-a-new-omb-director-jacob-lew
“What saved the economy and the New Deal [during the Great Depression] was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.” Paul Krugman
Barbara Boxer Brainyquote.com
[Ayn Rand] made a, I believe, an unneccessary polarity between selfishness -- or self-interest -- and altruism. She saw those as opposites. She saw that, or believed, altruism was fundamentally evil. ... I always felt like that was just inaccurate to human nature: That fundamentally human beings are both self-interested and capable of love, and that you can't understand human beings unless you see that we are both of them -- and so I reject the polarity. John Mackey http://www.booktv.org/search.aspx?For=freedomfest
"We are sort of a mongrel people ... I mean we're all kinds of mixed up. That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it." Barack H. Obama The Hill.com
Leonard Peikoff "Forced to be Free", Reason.com, via link at Peikoff.com
Thomas Sowell http://www.theatlasphere.com/columns/100729-sowell-smart-sacrifice.php
David Kelley "Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 years"
Daniel Henninger WSJ, 5 August: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703545604575407632023079038.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Eugene Volokh Volokh.com via Reason.com re: Ground Zero mosque
"The [Republican] party's Senate candidate in Nevada wants to privatize Medicare and Social Security ... I could go on, but you get the point. Democrats may be facing a tough fight this fall, but Republicans are giving them plenty of material to work with. The big political story of the year may turn out to be the consequences of the GOP's foray into extremism and wackiness." Eugene Robinson "With Friends Like These", RealClearPolitics.com
Peter Suderman Gizmodo.com via Reason.com, "This Country Has Ayn Rand Written All Over It"
Brink Lindsey Reason.com, "Brink Lindsey on the Classics of Conservatism--Traditional and Liberal Varieties"
Her [Ayn Rand's] absolutism is a reasoned position that contrasts with altruistic or low self-esteem positions that value or use large doses of uncertainty or humility. Steve Wolfer http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/Quotes/1708.shtml#3
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. President Barack Obama http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama_4.html
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. President Barack Obama http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama_3.html
“I have been led to the conclusion that as long as a philosopher does not carry out his analysis of measurable objects to the point where the mathematician can find unities, measures, and dimensions he must surely still be hanging on to some confusion, or at least the predicates of his propositions do not apply uniformly to the subjects.” —J.H. Lambert to Kant (Feb. 3, 1766) Lambert
"It is a feeling to be hunted. They come in uniforms . . . " Marta Jaworski reason.com, "Sorry, But Our Zoning Regulations Forbid You From Celebrating Your Freedom"
Barbara Demick "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea", pages 106-107
Mike Mentzer High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way by John Little
" ‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged,” Whittaker Chambers wrote here 53 years ago, “a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: ‘To a gas chamber — go!’” What he did not write is that Ayn Rand throws in a gas chamber. It’s about two-thirds through, in a chapter called “The Moratorium on Brains,” than which I reread no farther. (Our president seems to have inspired — which is not quite the word — half the country to read Miss Rand, and I wanted to remind myself what she was teaching them.)" Jason L. Steorts National Review Online, "The Great Ghastly Rand"
Bret Stephens http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703369704575461283206035848.html
“There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding the foundation.” President Barack Obama Barack Obama, February 2009
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