Writes Richard Salsman Over at Forbes: The framers of the U.S. Constitution (1787) and Bill of Rights (1791) were correct to forbid Congress from enacting any laws establishing or promoting a religion or a church, or abridging free worship, just as they were right (in Article VI) to forbid religious tests of public officials. They [...]
Jean Moroney will be giving a complimentary teleclass: Jump Start Your Thinking Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:00 p.m. Eastern (7:00 p.m. Central, 6:00 p.m. Mountain, 5:00 p.m. Pacific) Dial in live (or listen afterwards on your computer) In this class, you will learn: The #1 thinking tactic that helps you zero in on top issues [...]
In addressing the ongoing debt and fiscal crises throughout the West, Nicole Gelinas writes in City Journal: In the years leading up to 2007, the rules necessary to govern a flourishing market economy broke down, producing a financial and economic crisis. Rather than responding to the crisis by fixing those rules, the West aggressively repudiated [...]
Don Watkins on Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand — Why Are You Still So Misunderstood?: In the summer of 1921, a young Ayn Rand saw Moscow for the first time. “I remember standing on a square,” she would later recall. “And it suddenly struck me. . . . ‘How enormous it is, and how many people, [...]
ORIENT: Uncle Sam exacts penalty for quitting Medicare – Washington Times: Should people be allowed to leave Medicare? This is a real question, not a rhetorical one. Even though Medicare is said to be highly popular, indispensable and a great boon to American seniors, some people really want out. [...] Believe it or not, some [...]
The site checkingpremises.org has posted Ayn Rand’s essay “To Whom It May Concern” — originally published in The Objectivist, September 15, 1968 — online. The essay begins: This is to inform my readers and all those interested in Objectivism that Nathaniel Branden and Barbara Branden are no longer associated with this magazine, with me or [...]
Where gold comes from and where it goes. A Gold Tree Infographic from Trustable Gold.
A basic dilemma confronting today’s manager is how to be both profitable and moral. Making profits through immoral means—such as deceiving investors or customers—is unsustainable. Likewise, remaining moral while losing money will cause a business to fail. According to conventional morality, either a business manager maximizes profits and necessarily compromises on ethics, or necessarily sacrifices [...]
Writes Raymond Ibrahim in Jihad — When Elections Fail over at Jihad Watch: The Obama administration supports “democracy” and “self determination” in the Middle East—two euphemisms that, in the real world, refer to “mob-rule” and “Islamic radicalization,” respectively. Yet, as Jimmy Carter recently put it: “I don’t have any problem with that [an “Islamist victory” [...]
James Toohey writes in Private Schools for the Poor: The accepted wisdom is that private schools serve the privileged; everyone else, especially the poor, requires public school.The poor, so this logic goes, need government assistance if they are to get a good education, which helps explain why, in the United States, many school choice enthusiasts [...]
Writes Scott Holleran at his blog: “You’re our hero,” read a sign at a statue of the late government-college football coach Joe Paterno, who died on Sunday at the age of 85. But Paterno, who by his own admission sidestepped, ignored or evaded allegations of child rape, is not a hero. He was a football [...]
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