Why Liberals Should Like Ayn Rand
If you are liberal, you want people to be treated as people. You're against racism and against sexism. You are in favor of more immigration and against nativism. If you are liberal, you think people...
View ArticleWashington State Votes for Liberty?
The ballot initiatives voted by Washington State voters in 2012 are the brightest light for increased liberty in the current election.Voters in Washington State approved a super-majority requirement...
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The Individualist's Guide to Progressive Change
If socialism were a respectable affiliation, Progressives would probably call themselves “democratic socialists.”read more
View ArticleSolar Power versus Trees
I am a critic of subsidies for green technologies. I don't think it is at all certain how efficient technologies like solar and wind power will ever become. I certainly disagree with President Obama's...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Story Teller
In a recent column, Paul Krugman weighed in for the nth time against free-market-oriented Republicans Rand Paul and Paul Ryan (“Milton Friedman, Unperson” August 11, 2013 New York Times) He took a...
View ArticleNSA Spying and the Slippery Cliff
At our Atlas Summit last week, I had the chance to hang out a bit with John Stossel. Stossel wanted to know: why are liberty-lovers so worked up about the NSA spying revealed by Edward Snowden?read more
View ArticleMyth: Ayn Rand Was a Conservative
Ayn Rand has been a major inspiration for the Tea Party movement, which has swept a new generation of Republicans and self-described conservatives into power. Rand herself is often called “right-wing.”...
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Internet is not a Human Right
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a new initiative to promote the spread of internet usage world wide. He titled his announcement “Is Connectivity a Human Right?”read more
View ArticleHyperloop: Get Out of the Way!
It's hard for an Objectivist not to be fan of Elon Musk.read more
View ArticleEgypt's Democracy Activists Get What They Wished For
Okay, this is about the Egyptian "Election 2012," not the American one. But Egypt is learning a lesson that America would do well to remember.Secular-leaning, educated, democracy activists succeeded in...
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Debt or Poker Chips?
Sidebar article to: "America's Deficit Culture" December 2011 -- Is U.S. government debt really hitting 100% of GDP soon? Or is the debt level actually closer to 65% of GDP at the end of 2010, as the...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism: it's all-American now!
"Crony capitalism." Wasn't that what caused the Asian financial melt-down of 1997? Wasn't that what we were all told?Take a trip back in time. The U.S. stock market is booming. It's the '90s! But...
View ArticleChristian-Liberty Alliance RIP
Tea-party and pro-economic liberty advocates in the Republican Party supported the nomination of Richard Mourdouck in Indiana and Todd Akin in Missouri for the US Senate. Both lost ignominiously in the...
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America's Deficit Culture
TNI December 2010 -- We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government debt crisis ever came, nor should it...
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Venezuela Black Out
In Venezuela, Atlas Shrugged is coming to life, with President Nicolas Maduro playing Mr. Thompson, the clueless, power-mad head of state.read more
View ArticleFriday the 13th and the Evil Demon
It's Friday the 13th this week. Do you think it might be an unlucky day? If so, it's worth considering what else would have to be the case. Because, if any day is an unlucky day for all or most people...
View ArticleObamacare: Charity is now Robbery
December 17, 2013—The Wall Street Journal reported today [pay site] that the Department of Health and Human Services is urging hospitals and pharmaceutical companies not to buy Obamacare benefits (aka...
View ArticleDo John Galt and Jesus Agree?
On February 15, I participated in a panel called "Ayn Rand versus Jesus" at the International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) in Washington, DC.read more
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Arizona and anti-gay freedom
The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill that would make it legal for a business to deny service to homosexuals, just so long as the business can cite a religious reason for doing so. This bill...
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