The first Presidential debate of 2012 is this Wednesday, October 3. The topic is domestic policy. Here is my question for both candidates: What is your evaluation of the statement, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”?
On September 11, 2012, Islamists attacked Americans in a U.S. foreign embassy and consulate and murdered four of those Americans in Libya. Evidence indicates that our government failed to take common-sense security measures to protect these Americans. Then our government issued numerous official statements that were as much condemnations of a YouTube video denigrating Islamists […]
There were no new specific policies in President Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night. As always, Obama wants the government to increase its initiation of physical compulsion in manufacturing, the energy industry, education, and medicine, to name a few aspects of human life. But the final passage provides a pithy […]
(This post was revised on September 7, 2012.) In his speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, President Clinton repeatedly called for compromise and cooperation. Regarding the economy, compromise and cooperation are good when Democrats do it, because the Democrats are wrong. The best thing about Clinton’s presidency was that he did not merely […]
This graphic, which quotes President Clinton’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, and which appears today as the masthead of barackobama.com, reveals the political Left’s essential view of human relationships: Either you sleep with everyone or no one. See my analysis of similar statements by President Obama and his ilk. This new statement […]
Republicans have a significant altruist/collectivist element in their thinking, but at least that element is tempered by an element of reason/individualism. Democrats don’t have the element of reason/individualism. They speak incessantly of altruism (‘other’-ism etymologically), sacrifice, “shared prosperity,” and ‘coming together’. Moreover, even when they think they are being individualist, they are still being collectivist. […]
I consider Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, the greatest work of art and most advanced human achievement. September 2 (1946) is the date on which Ayn Rand began writing the novel, and is also the date on which the novel begins. I celebrate Atlas Shrugged Day by reading passages from the novel, often by opening […]
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, caricatured in political ads last year and again this month as pushing Granny off the cliff of Medicare, is now the running mate of the maker of RomneyCare, who is running against the maker of ObamaCare. With the consequent renewed debate over proposed reforms of Medicare and other aspects of government-provided […]
Even when the Left opposes something wrong, it supports something worse. The Left does not oppose religion and mysticism as such, but rather the Western Judeo-Christian tradition in particular: the least mystical religion today because of its infusion of Aristotle via Aquinas. The Left supports all other religions and mystical beliefs: Islam, Buddhism, Eastern religions, […]
“I am the lesser of two evils.” And if Romney said the following, I would even campaign for him. I know I’m not a real Republican. Well, I am a real Republican; what I mean is that I am not a real defender of freedom. I don’t have any political ideas; I just try to […]