Chris tells me he's home, & feeling pretty rough after a harrowing procedure. Details at his Notablog: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/notablog/archives/000814.html You'll be fine, DDD. Ya can't keep a bad boy down! :-) Lotsaluv Linz(Read more...)
"Senator Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico and Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, was superb in the role of Wesley Mouch, Ayn Rand's petty-bureaucrat-turned-economic-czar in Atlas Shrugged.'' (Read more...)
Marcus Bachler posted this on the solo site. It's a very good documentary, well worth the 1+ hour to watch. Hopefully it will do some good.(Read more...)
[On October 11, 2007 the Washington Times published my commentary entitled "Atlas Shrugged at 50." This is one of our many efforts to honor Ayn Rand's great work. Enjoy!] Atlas Shrugged at 50 Edward Hudgins The Washington Times -- October 11, 2007 Two important events occurred in October 19...(Read more...)
Washington Post Editorial: BARACK OBAMA yesterday accused President Bush and Sen. John McCain of rigidity on Iraq: "They said we couldn't leave when violence was up, they say we can't leave when violence is down." Mr. Obama then confirmed his own foolish consistency. Early last year, when the war was at its peak...(Read more...)
Expanded from 3 to 450 pages, newly laden with pork, Congress has passed America's death sentence, an unconstitutional transfer of private wealth which nationalizes the equivalent lifetime earnings of 533,000 people, a self-inflicted wound that would murder one hundred times as many human lives as we lost on 9/11. (Read more...)
In this article, George Reisman shows that reducing taxes on capitalists benefits wage earners, whereas raising them on capitalists harms wage earners. The reason is that taxing capitalists reduces their demand for labor, and thus either the wage rates or the volume of employment they can offer. Such taxes deprive bu...(Read more...)
Fred Thompson--politician, actor, attorney, and lobbyist--in a 12-minute speech, says some things that desperately need saying at this juncture. Some of his remarks really surprised me coming from a conservative, and I think Objectivists will be very gratified to hear them. http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.as...(Read more...)
Blogger beware? Washington State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. Both left and right political bloggers are campaigning against this idea!(Read more...)
French Terror Alert! Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 2/15, 11:25am
Reuters and AFP are reporting that the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The elevated alert level was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of their white flag facto...(Read more...)
