Here’s a piece about the BBC’s (Bend over Backwards Corporation?) self-censorship over Islam and Muslims as an explicit, mandated policy under its current director, Mark “Run Away!” Thompson. (The nickname is mine, from the knights’ battle cry in Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” movie.) I’d like to see a similar exposé of its counterpart here in the U.S., the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (or PBS) “a private corporation funded by viewers like you,” through donation and tax dollars.…
A Plea for Productivity
Twenty one French economists stood against the political trend in Europe as their open letter was published in the The Wall Street Journal. This opinion could not have appeared sooner as monetary policy, impulsive bailouts, and woeful prospects plague the European economy.…
IRS Harassment of Tea Party Groups
Ira Stoll notes at The Future of Capitalism that Congressman Tom McClintock, a Republican of California, has made the following remarks about the “IRS Harassment of Tea Party Groups.”
It seems that Tea Party groups are now being treated very differently than their counterparts on the political Left.…
Books: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government,
written by ARI executive director Yaron Brook and ARI fellow Don
Watkins will be available in bookstores on September 18, 2012. Here is the table of contents from the book’s site:
The Incredible Unshrinking Government
The Wealth of Free Nations
Why the Last Swing to the Right Failed
Conclusion: The Situation Today
Why Government Grows
The Least Controversial Idea
The Argument from Need and the Argument from Greed
Conclusion: A Moral Crisis
With Friends Like These . . .…
The FDA Owns Your Stem Cells
Writes Scientist Keith Lockitch on FDA Versus Stem Cell Therapies:
Who owns your cells? The FDA seems to think it does, given its lawsuit against Regenerative Sciences, a company that treats orthopedic injuries by extracting, culturing and reinjecting adult stem cells derived from a patient’s bone marrow.…
David Allen: Five Things To Optimize your Focus
According to David Allen in When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized we need “a system that creates space to think, to reflect, to review, to integrate and to connect dots” to put ourselves into “a productive state — the feeling that you’re doing exactly what you should be doing, with a sense of relaxed and focused control?” This allows us to sort out the “chaos of the workplace” and stay “focused on the most important things, as they relate to your goals, direction, values and desired outcomes.…
Cradle To Grave? Brook and Watkins on The “On Your Own” Economy
Write Yaron Brook and Don Watkins in The “On Your Own” Economy – Forbes:
Are you bothered by the thought of government embedding itself in every aspect of your life? According to President Obama, the only alternative is “a government that tells the American people, you are on your own.…
Ayn Rand Institute’s 2012 Summer Internship Program
The Ayn Rand Institute: Internship Program is a three-week program combines an educational curriculum exploring Rand’s novels, philosophy, and the applications of Rand’s ideas to the world today with a traditional internship in a professional workplace.
This year’s program will bring up to 30 college students and recent graduates from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and viewpoints to ARI’s main office in Irvine, a small city centrally located in Orange County in sunny Southern California.…
Salsman on Conservatives Mixing of Religion and Politics
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.…
Jump Start Your Thinking Complimentary Teleclass February 16
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 immediately
How to use small blocks of time for hard thinking tasks
The best way to plant thinking seeds now to get insights later
How expert advice you already know can jump start your thinking on your most important project
This is an interactive teleclass consisting of lecture, exercises, and discussion.…
Blame Big Government, Not Big Banks
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.…
OBJECTIVISM FOR LIVING
Capitalism Magazine
- Free Banking and Economic Development, Part 1
- A Lesson from Yahoo’s Ex-CEO Scott Thompson
- The Devolution of the Term Liberal: Alias Marx and Alinsky
- The Peril of “Hate Crimes”
- Asking the Government for Permission to Live
- Gays and Lesbians Should Not Fall for Barack’s Stand on Gay Marriage
- Abyssal Failures: The Post Office and Education
- The Occupiers Claim: Working for A Living is Slavery
- Stephen King’s Stand For Class Warfare
- The Golden Rule Reinterpreted