 A Revolutionary Struggle
by Tibor R. Machan
Be it welcome or not, there are a revolutionary struggle afoot in the
world. It started when certain thinkers began to dispute the claims made
by defenders of various rulers--monarchs, dictators, tsars and the
like--that some people have a divine or natural right to run the lives of
other people. (Read more...)
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In Obama We Trust
by Traci Kanaan
I ran into a former customer of my promotional products business today. He lost his job with "the county" and has been unemployed since July. I asked what he was doing in the meantime, and he said "Well, maybe I'll find something when this economy turns around."
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Saturday
December 27, 2008 |
Year End Pet Peeves
by Tibor R. Machan
Mostly I write on topics I suspect concern a wide enough audience.
Columnists don’t just write on anything that pops into their minds but
need to do a bit of service to reader-clients. But, if one has a regular
venue for one’s columns, it maybe fine, now and then, to indulge oneself
with a topic or two that’s more personal. Even these will, of course, aim
to please, if only by inviting reader-clients to know a bit of the writer. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 24, 2008 |
 The United States of America
by Marty Lewinter
Read my poem and remember how great America was and can be again. (Read more...)
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 Ayn Rand and the End of Malthus
by Manfred F. Schieder
The existing altruistic type of society that characterized mankind's existence up to now, belongs to the realm of the irrational animals and is, thus, kept within bounds by Malthus' "solutions": hunger, plagues (diseases) and wars. The type of society that characterizes the rational human being, avoids these prospects by applying a totally different code of social existence. (Read more...)
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Saturday
December 20, 2008 |
Against USA, Inc.
by Tibor R. Machan
Government, even if democratic--meaning one that serves everyone in
society--is to be limited in its scope. That scope is to secure our
rights, just as the American Founders envisioned it. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 17, 2008 |
The Minimal Secular Agenda Regarding Religious Belief
by G. Stolyarov II
In order to achieve peaceful coexistence among all individuals, Mr. Stolyarov presents a list of understandings which he believes all religious people need to adopt and that any reasonable secularist should expect them to adopt. Adopting the Minimal Secular Agenda Regarding Religious Belief (MSARRB) will defuse tensions among the religious and non-religious and will enable more peaceful, mutually respectful, and productive interactions among them. (Read more...)
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Bailout Is No Public Good
by Tibor R. Machan
The failures are a very good reason to stop all this wealth redistribution
and government regimentation--those folks up there in Washington,
Sacramento, Brussels, and the like just haven’t clue and thus all they can
do when they insist on “doing something” is to muddle about, pose,
pretend, or fake. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 10, 2008 |
 You could have heard a pin drop...
by Alexandra York
Commentary by Manfred F. Schieder: Alexandra York sent me a series of incisive stories that hit the nail on the head and which, under the present world circumstances, we all, but precisely the American population, should clearly keep in their mind. Please pass this on to your friends and associates. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 10, 2008 |
Help me become the next Senator of Illinois
by Traci Kanaan
A Florida Comedian ponders life as the next Chicago Senator (Read more...)
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The FDR "Solution"
by Tibor R. Machan
It is a very scary prospect but if president-elect Barack Obama is
serious about admiring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for how the
latter dealt with America’s Great Depression, then America and the world
may be in for some very ugly times indeed. (Read more...)
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Art and Evolution
by Manfred F. Schieder
Painting and sculpture clearly depict and describe mankind's painful growth to what nature's evolution itself automatically designed it to be: beings characterized by the faculty of reason, a faculty whose development itself history has shown to be a stumbling, hesitant progress toward the goal of total fulfillment. The article analyzes the evolution of man from the point of view of his aesthetic efforts and the colossal task that lies ahead. (Read more...)
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Big 3 Bailouts
by Traci Kanaan
A Comedian's Look at The Big 3 Bailouts (Read more...)
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Wednesday
December 3, 2008 |
India, Government & Insecurity
by Tibor R. Machan
My impression is that if we had governments around the globe that
focused on their proper and properly limited job--namely, the securing or
protection of our rights--and they eschewed involvement in the
undertakings that's none of their business, there would be less terrorism
by far. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 26, 2008 |
No, I'm Not Mean
by Tibor R. Machan
No, I am not mean. I am personally a frequent contributor to
voluntary efforts to lend a hand even while my focus in my writings
happens to be mostly on eliminating coercion from human interactions. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 26, 2008 |
 A "HAPPENING" AT MoMA
by Alexandra York
Alexandra York, founding president of ART (http://www.art-21.org/Docs/Essays.htm), author of "From The Fountainhead to the Future" and "Crosspoints", a novel inspired by Ayn Rand's literary legacy, sent me ART's Update Fall 2008, which contains a deeply sarcastic and hilariously funny criticism of an Installation exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York that Alexandra visited recently. She agreed on my sending it over to "Rebirth of Reason" for the members to enjoy lots of laughs! (Read more...)
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Thursday
November 20, 2008 |
Bailouts Destroy Prudence
by Tibor R. Machan
This is just one of thousands of results of the mixed economy, the
welfare state, in which your individuality is abolished and you are
treated as a member of some ant colony or bee hive. You will be
conscripted to be part of it all, never mind how sensibly you may figure
out to deal with the fiasco. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 19, 2008 |
 Paul K. Driessen and Ayn Rand: A Book and a Campaign to Change the World
by Manfred F. Schieder
Objectivists have an extraordinarily great opportunity to spread the Objectivist ideas on a worldwide basis, as applied to a most worthwhile cause: to raise the poor from their poverty on their own bootstraps. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 19, 2008 |
 Congress demands Amtrak's Sunset Limited be restored
by Sarah Karush
WASHINGTON - Until Hurricane Katrina ripped up the railroad tracks east of the Mississippi, Amtrak's Sunset Limited ran from Los Angeles to Sanford, Fla. The tracks were repaired long ago, but Amtrak didn't return east of New Orleans. The national passenger railroad has said that the service was ineffective and ... (Read more...)
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Exceptions Not the Rule
by Tibor R. Machan
Many years ago I saw a guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson who fell out of an airplane without a parachute, landed in a tree that slowed his fall and left him totally uninjured, and lived to write a best selling book about his experience. But, I am pleased to report, he did not become an advocate of everyone jumping out of airplanes. (Read more...)
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American Commissars
by Tibor R. Machan
My reason for focusing on these ideas is not so much to dispute them from the viewpoint of sound
political economy but to examine them as instances of rank and immoral political elitism.
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Obama, Franken and Socialism
by Tibor R. Machan
The race in Minnesota was still too close to call on Friday, November 7th
but the fact that Senator Obama, who had by than become president elect of
the United States, made a strong plea for electing Mr. Franken is a
significant and distressing clue to what we are in for over the next
several years. (Read more...)
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This Strange Thing Called Capitalism
by Manfred F. Schieder
A short analysis of what Capitalism really is. (Read more...)
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Of Gentlemanliness, Etiquette, and Professionalism
by Warren Chase Anspaugh
Mr. Anspaugh discusses and analyzes his experience with the mainstream pedagogy of etiquette, style, and professionalism. (Read more...)
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Obama’s Redistribution of wealth
by Miscellaneous Authors
This story has been making the rounds in e-mails. I can't be sure how true the actual incident is, but it does make an excellent point. (Read more...)
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