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Recommendation: Objectivist Round Up

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This week, I participated for the first time in the Objectivist Round Up, a weekly blog carnival of posts submitted by Objectivist bloggers. (Personally, I call myself a student of Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand.) The carnival is maintained by Rational Jenn, and this week’s carnival was hosted by Reepicheep’s Coracle. Topics of posts […]

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The Limitless Unreason of the Left

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Yesterday, speaking on a university campus, Obama said this: You know, the naysayers said that Social Security would lead to socialism. [Laughter.] The audience laughed with Obama. Of course, if they were to laugh at all, they should have laughed at him. Of course Social Security has been leading to more and more socialism. Look […]

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They rob our dollars until we need their dimes.

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Today Pelosi, Hoyer, and other Democrats introduced another guy who needs the government’s help to pay for health care. He is Ed Morris, a small business owner who says he cannot afford to pay for his employees’ health insurance anymore because of skyrocketing premiums. Let’s leave aside that, as one conservative blogger noted, this guy’s […]

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Health Care or the Welfare State

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Yesterday, in an interview with Fox News, Obama said this: [T]here are a lot more people who are concerned about the fact that they may be losing their house or going bankrupt because of health care. Earlier in the week, Obama and numerous other Democrats made a big deal about how a particular woman, ‘Natoma’ […]

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From Democrats to Death Panels

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As the Obama regime and Democrats in Congress this week make another thrust for more socialized medicine, in the fascist style of exerting control over ‘private’ businesses and individuals, it seems that America’s only hope for the failure of this thrust is that the tyrants in both parties might fail to agree on the precise […]