Movie Review: Avatar
by Scott Holleran
(January 25, 2010)
"Man is a great evil", someone declares during the 3-hour tour of Pandora. This sums up Avatar's philosophy, though, as with radical Islam, it's really Western Man that is regarded as evil.
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Scott Brown: A Mere Speed Bump on the Conservatives' Road to Serfdom
by Richard M. Salsman
(January 20, 2010)
Despite Scott Brown's claim about being a "new breed" of Republican, he'll soon find himself perfectly at home among the current GOP compromisers in Washington. The road to socialized medicine in America will be paved still farther, with his help. We've already seen the GOP endorse the substance of socialized medicine, while merely quibbling about the process by which it's adopted.
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Hearts of Darkness
by Edward Cline
(January 11, 2010)
If Reid is guilty of anything, which is his greater offense? Saying something uncouth, or advocating and working hard to bring about the destruction of American liberty?
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Philosopher Robert Mayhew on Ayn Rand's Novel: We the Living
by Scott Holleran
(January 11, 2010)
We the Living is not about Soviet Russia in 1925--it's a novel about any dictatorship, anywhere, and hopefully it will prevent one in the United States.
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States' Rights: Dumb Show and Noise
by Edward Cline
(January 6, 2010)
Who is to object to the states invoking their 'states' rights' and imposing the same powers and regulations as Hatch objects to Congress assuming?
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What The "Affordable Health Care For America Act," HR3962, Actually Says
by John David Lewis
(January 5, 2010)
In many ways the bill is a convoluted, uncoordinated list of compromises between thousand of legislators, legislative aides, and lobbyists. Yet the bill has two main thrusts, with one central meaning. The first thrust is a massive increase in government power. The second is the total rejection of the free market. The central meaning of both is the repudiation of individual rights. No longer will Americans have the liberty to preserve their own lives in the way they judge bestfrom now on, they will have to conform to government controls on the most intimate details of their lives.
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The Destruction of the Health Insurance Industry
by Richard E. Ralston
(January 5, 2010)
What passes for "reform" in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms.
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Happy New Year. Happy Life.
by Scott McConnell
(January 1, 2010)
New Year's Day inspires one to work for happiness.
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What to Resolve This New Year
by Alex Epstein
(January 1, 2010)
Making New Year's resolutions does not have to be futile--and to make them is not silly. Done seriously, it is an act of profound moral significance that embodies the essence of a life well-lived.
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Republics vs. Democracies
by Edward Cline
(December 30, 2009)
Democracy, whether pure or directly participatory (as in ancient Greece or New England), or via national plebiscite, is simply mob rule. Politely defined: majority rule. We have what could be said to be a representative government, but what is the chief function of our representatives, as opposed to their perceived function? Their actual, intended function was to serve as guardians of individual rights. Their perceived function, at least for the last century or so, is to patronize the real or imagined wants of the majority and to deliver them through coercive and confiscatory legislation.
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Ideas and Politics: How to "Re-Invigorate" the GOP
by Sylvia Bokor
(December 28, 2009)
What has happened to the Republican Party?
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A 100% Private Option for Health Care: A Truly Progressive Idea
by Alex Epstein
(December 27, 2009)
A truly progressive idea is a market in health care where the individual is responsible for his own health, the medical profession is truly free to compete for his dollars, and the government has been removed from the equation--the private option.
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Facts are Stubborn Things: King Obama
by Edward Cline
(December 26, 2009)
No better justice to President Barack Hussein Obamas boast in the Washington Post of his political achievements can be done than to adapt portions of the Declaration of Independence to the subject of his accomplishments. Not all of the charges against George III in 1776 listed in Jeffersons masterpiece are applicable. This charge sheet can also be leveled at Congress. I include only those offences which can be annotated. Call it not a parody, but a serious, appropriate, and well-deserved iteration.
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Christmas Should be More Commercial
by Leonard Peikoff
(December 25, 2009)
Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth.
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Twelve Ways to Increase the Cost of Health Insurance
by Richard E. Ralston
(December 22, 2009)
The Senate bill is a deliberate, systematic deception for the purpose of concealing the cost of a huge expansion of government--and the forced dependence of citizens on politicians for another crucially important aspect of their daily lives.
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A Copenhagen Postmortem
by Edward Cline
(December 21, 2009)
Nowhere to run -- except into the custody of the Green Gestapo.
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How Our Rights Are Destroyed
by Richard E. Ralston
(December 15, 2009)
The most effective means of destroying the rights of individual Americans is by replacing those rights with new powers for the government.
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Obama's War on America
by Edward Cline
(December 13, 2009)
A peak inside the Obama formula.
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Grassroots Activism and Tea Parties
by Sylvia Bokor
(December 10, 2009)
"A republic if you can keep it."
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The Goal of Government Health Care
by Sylvia Bokor
(December 8, 2009)
Let's see. The government produces nothing. It earns no money. Its notion of "affordable health coverage" means stealing from those who have earned their money and giving it to those who have not. But those stolen dollars do not go to the medical professional. It goes to bureaucrats and politicians who dole out medical services by pull and favor. Meanwhile, medical professionals will be forced to work for less than their skills deserve. Mr. Obama has said, he will decide what doctors are paid.
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