Hyperloop: Get Out of the Way!
It's hard for an Objectivist not to be fan of Elon Musk.read more
View ArticleEgypt's Democracy Activists Get What They Wished For
Okay, this is about the Egyptian "Election 2012," not the American one. But Egypt is learning a lesson that America would do well to remember.Secular-leaning, educated, democracy activists succeeded in...
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Debt or Poker Chips?
Sidebar article to: "America's Deficit Culture" December 2011 -- Is U.S. government debt really hitting 100% of GDP soon? Or is the debt level actually closer to 65% of GDP at the end of 2010, as the...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism: it's all-American now!
"Crony capitalism." Wasn't that what caused the Asian financial melt-down of 1997? Wasn't that what we were all told?Take a trip back in time. The U.S. stock market is booming. It's the '90s! But...
View ArticleChristian-Liberty Alliance RIP
Tea-party and pro-economic liberty advocates in the Republican Party supported the nomination of Richard Mourdouck in Indiana and Todd Akin in Missouri for the US Senate. Both lost ignominiously in the...
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America's Deficit Culture
TNI December 2010 -- We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government debt crisis ever came, nor should it...
View ArticleFriday the 13th and the Evil Demon
It's Friday the 13th this week. Do you think it might be an unlucky day? If so, it's worth considering what else would have to be the case. Because, if any day is an unlucky day for all or most people...
View ArticleDo John Galt and Jesus Agree?
On February 15, I participated in a panel called "Ayn Rand versus Jesus" at the International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) in Washington, DC.read more
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Arizona and anti-gay freedom
The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill that would make it legal for a business to deny service to homosexuals, just so long as the business can cite a religious reason for doing so. This bill...
View ArticleCrimea - Russian Nationalist Imperialism
Russia is annexing Crimea. The act, in both means and motive, announces to the world that nationalist imperialism lives. Ironically, Russia's annexation of Crimea is an unobjectionable result, even...
View ArticleBYD America - A Crony Capitalist Comedy
Reporting in the Huffington Post, Matt Sheehan relates a story that is both sad and hilarious at the same time. Laugh and cry along with me, as we survey this tale of green do-gooderism and crony...
View ArticleHighway Trust Fund Injustice
The US federal government is holding one of its periodic debates about highway funding. President Obama says that the federal highway trust fund, which is primarily funded by gasoline taxes paid...
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Ayn Rand is Bad Taste
Is Ayn Rand the epitome of bad taste?That’s the one thing the New York literary world can agree on, it seems.read more
View ArticleA Concrete-Bound State of the Union
President Obama's 2015 State of the Union speech was full of examples of concrete-bound thinking.Obama seems to think that if he likes something, a law will make it happen. Are some people poor? Have...
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