Leaving America for Freedom, Earth for Mars
Leaving America for Freedom, Earth for Mars By Edward HudginsAugust 15, 2013 -- A record number of Americans are renouncing their U.S. citizenship in order to avoid confiscatory taxes.And 100,000...
View ArticleBalanced Budget Amendment
Government spending is out of control, and deficit spending is wild, pretty much all over our politically ignorant and depraved Welfare State world. Thus virtually every country needs a Constitutional...
View ArticleOn why so much supposedly great TV is so dark and nihilistic
Megan McArdle, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... , writing over at Bloomberg, has this thought-provoking article (well, it is to me) about why so-much acclaimed television is so dark and depressing in...
View ArticleCome On Council, What Does This Cost?
Affordable Auckland Waitemata & Gulf candidate Stephen Berry is incredulous at the news Auckland Council is running a pilot program teaching etiquette to skateboarders. The Skate Ambassador scheme...
View ArticleAllan Gotthelf, RIP
Objectivist philosopher Allan Gotthelf passed away yesterday.He was probably the most accomplished philosopher of The Generation that Knew Rand. He published extensively on...
View Article"The Way the Wind Blew"
Ayn Rand's analysis of the New Left "student rebellion" in the 1970's exposed a movement by students, acting on the worst of philosophical ideas being taught in the university classroom, to introduce...
View ArticleRedlining Syria and Redlining Iran
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....Our ever-reliable ally, Israel, is urging President Obama to attack Syria. Or so says this article in the Huff post. It makes sense; Israel and the American-Israeli...
View ArticleInternationally Known Philosopher Leaves Legacy of Scholarship on Aristotle...
Internationally Known Philosopher Leaves Legacy of Scholarship on Aristotle and Ayn RandIRVINE, Calif.—It is with great sorrow that the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship and the Ayn Rand...
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An Amusing "First" for The Great Romantic Revolution in The Arts
From Romantic Revolution Books, this evening...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...The life of the Spanish artist, Francisco Goya, fits perfectly into the heart of the Romantic Movement, pivoting around...
View ArticleKiwi Praises North Korea
NZer Gareth Morgan has come out in praise of life in North Korea, having toured parts of it on motorcycle by special permission of the DPRK. Morgan appears to see himself as some kind of private...
View ArticleEarly Philosophy
I converted to Objectivism when I was about 18 1/4. Took me less than a day. I happened across Ayn Rand's book of philosophical essays, The Virtue of Selfishness, and found it overwhelmingly...
View ArticleThe Terrors of Ideological Warfare...
There is an interesting new book by Kenneth M. Pollack, a former CIA analyst and Brookings scholar, entitled, "Unthinkable." The book is about the ever-louder drums of war beating for an attack on...
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My Video on Ayn Rand's Esthetics and Historic Romantic Revolution
For any who might be interested, I am posting the link to the free video on my presentation this summer at Atlas Summit 2013. It was an attempt to deal with the many questions and seeming...
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Empire Of Earth: J.J. Hill And America's Age of Enterprise
NEXT WEEK IS THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF JAMES JEROME HILL, the great Nineteenth-Century entrepreneur and exemplar of laissez faire capitalism. Surely, this was the model that inspired, for...
View ArticleSeptember 11 and the Need for Enlightenment
September 11 and the Need for Enlightenment By Edward HudginsSeptember 10, 2013 — Twelve years after the attacks on America by Islamist mass murderers, mass murder proceeds apace in the Muslim Middle...
View ArticleTry To Remember
I feel at risk of over-posting, but if I don't post this, now, it must wait a year.Try To RememberHow many knew, that day, That we had buried her, Untenderly, the way The violated lady Once asked to...
View ArticleThoughts on Barack Obama's Speech
A few hours ago, Pres. Obama said: "America is not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe, and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and...
View ArticleAn Iranian Who Saw It All Comments on Our Arguments...
A friend of mine, born in Iran but brought up in the United States, attending a U.S. preparatory school and an Ivy League University, where he read "Atlas Shrugged" and took the old NBI "Basic...
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