Ayn Rand wrote, "Don't bother to examine a folly - ask what it accomplishes." In this article, Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg does both. "Intelligent Design" not only has no basis in science, but actually contradicts much of our actual knowledge of reality. It is being promoted for political reasons: if you were...(Read more...)
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation, To call upon a neighbour and to say:— “We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away.” And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you’ve only to pa...(Read more...)
The past few days a U. S. media controversy has erupted over an environmentalist group's shameless manipulation of elementary school children for propaganda purposes. I am happy to have played a role in exposing this outrage, as I outline in this entry on my blog. The Rainforest Action Network -- a "direct actio...(Read more...)
After reading Kelley's article on why generosity is in our self-interest, it is refreshing to read Mark Steyn's realistic assessment of the West's orgy of generosity toward the tsunami victims. Steyn is as Objectivist as it can get in his final punch line: "Why do we hate us?"
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I was going to post this on the food board, but I'm just too excited not to broadcast my announcement! :) I've just launched a food 'zine to Celebrate the Art of Eating Well™. The site now features perspectives from my favorite world-class chefs, and winemaker Gina Gallo of Gallo of Sonoma has come on board as our r...(Read more...)
Antiwar.com & Lewrockwell.com = EVIL Posted by Alec Mouhibian
on 3/04, 4:15pm
A devastating (and frightening) expose of the close ties between two "libertarian" websites and a pro-dictatorship foreign organization. This is a bit belated in my part, but Tom G. Palmer, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has written a must-read expose on his blog, for anyone who thinks they can sup...(Read more...)
Mr. Palmer, a member of SOLO, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and dilligent libertarian, has been loyally categorizing the disgusting actions of Rockwellians and their ilk. Particularly noxious is the first item that one can read, where Raimondo refers to Washington D.C. as "Israeli-occupied terrirtory". Warning:...(Read more...)
