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.…
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand
Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
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.…
Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
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 with my philosophy.…
Uses and Sources of Gold
Where gold comes from and where it goes. A Gold Tree Infographic from Trustable Gold.…
New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
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 profits in order to be moral.…
Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
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” in Egypt], and the U.S.…
Private Schools for the Poor
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 believe that the only way the poor can get the education they deserve is through vouchers or charter schools, proxies for those better private or independent schools, paid for with public funds.…
Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
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.…
Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
Writes Richard Salsman in Mitt Romney’s Uphill Battle Against Anti-Capitalist Conservatives over at Forbes:
Most people assume GOP conservatives are reflexively pro-capitalist, that they embrace free markets, profit-making, and the pursuit of happiness through worldly success. But this assumption is far from the truth, as should now be evident after the anti-capitalist harangues launched at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by the much-touted “conservative alternatives” in the race – Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry.…
New Website: Checking Premises
From checkingpremises.org:
This site is being created by serious students and proponents of Objectivism in response to the danger that some, who may seem in agreement with the philosophy, are in fact subverting it. The tabs representing the subjects are arranged, left to right, in chronological order.…
Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?
TD Waterhouse: Markets > News & Commentary
Immigrants founded or cofounded almost half of 50 top venture-backed companies in the United States, a new study shows, underscoring some of the high stakes in potential immigration reform.
The venture capital community argues the study, completed by research group National Foundation for American Policy, proves the need to overhaul rules governing how entrepreneurs can immigrate to the United States to spur job development.…
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