Art

Happy Ayn Rand’s Birthday 2013

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I celebrate February 2, the birthday of Ayn Rand, by opening one of her novels to a random page and reading. Today I read these two passages from The Fountainhead. “Miss Cook, I’ve read Clouds and Shrouds and it was a spiritual revelation to me. Allow me to include myself among the few who understand […]

Politics

What Government Should Do About Crime and About Ownership of Guns by Private Citizens

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In my previous post, I argued that Americans Absolutely Need to Own Advanced Firearms. The people who want to take away our guns are the people who have caused high crime in the first place, through their New Leftist ideas: anti-reality, anti-free will, anti-reason, anti-moral absolutes, anti-individual, anti-capitalism, anti-West, anti-America, anti-human. Moreover, the New Left […]

Politics

Americans Absolutely Need to Own Advanced Firearms

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The U.S. government does not trust every American soldier to possess nuclear weapons. Likewise, the U.S. government should not trust private citizens to possess nuclear weapons. But the U.S. government does trust more than a million American soldiers to possess advanced firearms. Likewise, the U.S. government should trust private citizens to possess such firearms. If […]

Politics

Five Days Before the Presidential Election

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Five days before the Presidential election, barring a power grab by the current Administration, recall these immortal words: Our next task is the removal of unemployment, the providing of work. This providing of work is divided into two main groups. First the private providing of work. Under this heading we are going to undertake a […]

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Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy

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In the ‘foreign-policy’ debate, Romney was even worse than I realized. He wants America to bring peace to the world, in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson. But Obama is unable or unwilling to conceptualize the nature of America’s enemies. To Obama, Russia—a nation run by a Soviet thug, persecuting its own citizens for political crimes, […]

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Questions for the Final Presidential Debate

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Here are my questions for both candidates in the final Presidential debate of 2012, on foreign policy, Monday evening. When you negotiate with Russia and China, which do you seek for the United States: military equality or military superiority? Do you consider the United States of America the most moral nation in history, and why? […]

Politics

Romney Was As Leftist as Obama in the Debate

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Imagine not being able to beat Romney in a political debate. In the first Presidential debate of 2012, Romney humiliated Obama by going as far Left as Obama dared go before a national audience. Consequently, there was no choice for voters regarding ideology; the choice was limited to a question of competency. The choice was […]