You can learn a lot from an Estonian. A Southern law professor once instructed his class on how to defend
Hell in court. “First you admit that the climate is not the most
comfortable,” came the advice, “and then you admit your companions are
far from the kind of people you’d choose to spend eternity with. Then,”
the professor ... MORE
Showing posts with label collectivism. Show all posts
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Barry Farber: Obama's New Marxist Ploy
You can learn a lot from an Estonian. A Southern law professor once instructed his class on how to defend
Hell in court. “First you admit that the climate is not the most
comfortable,” came the advice, “and then you admit your companions are
far from the kind of people you’d choose to spend eternity with. Then,”
the professor ... MOREThe Ethics Of Sacrifice, The Politics Of Slavery
by Boyd Richard Boyd. Bad political ideas come from bad ethical ideas, which are originally spread by the words of bad philosophers. Progressives and their Utopian counterparts throughout history have pushed a corrupt and inverted morality on the world, causing man to act as his own destroyer. It is from an ... MOREObama Wants Millennials To Love Big Government
by Gene Healy. There's a specter haunting America's youth, President Obama warned in his commencement address to Ohio State University graduates Sunday -- the specter of "cynicism." In Obama's account, sinister (but unnamed) "voices" have been busily corrupting the once-idealistic Generation Y with a siren song of "creeping cynicism" toward ... MOREBarry Farber: Obama Wants Capitalism To Fail
Wifely wisdom and the checking of premises. One of the most exciting clichés in the English language is “Thinking outside the box”! Who among us has not thought, “If only I could think outside the box, like Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg! If only! Then rainbows wouldn’t be something I’m constantly chasing. They’d be more like house ... MORELet Consumers Make Their Own Choices On Sugary Drinks
by Baylen Linnekin. Earlier this week the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a group that regularly pushes for increased food regulations and considers soda to be “a slow-acting but ruthlessly efficient bioweapon,” announced it would be launching “a major action regarding the regulation of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.” ... MORELarry Kudlow: Obama's Declaration Of Collectivism
Not what the Founders had in mind. One of the least remarked upon aspects of President Obama’s inaugural
speech was his attempt to co-opt the Founding Fathers’ Declaration of
Independence to bolster his liberal-left agenda. Sure, the president quoted one of the most important sentences in
world history: “We hold these truths to be self- ... MOREGun Control, People Control And Thought Control
by Daniel Greenfield. The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Depending On Dependency
Shameless, but effective. The theme that most seemed to rouse the enthusiasm of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was that we are all responsible for one another — and that Republicans don't want to help the poor, the sick and the helpless. All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the ... MOREIndividualism, Collectivism And Other Murky Labels
by Sheldon Richman. Imagine the following person. He believes all individuals should be free to do anything that’s peaceful and therefore favors private property, free global markets, freedom of contract, civil liberties, and all the related ideas that come under the label libertarianism (or liberalism). Obviously he is not a statist. ... MOREBarry Farber: Obama's Mainstreaming Of Marxism
The commies like Barrack. So what? An email came though with the subject line, “Yikes! Look who just endorsed Obama for 4 more years!” I scrambled to get past the tease and into the revelation. I expected the villain would be a prominent Republican governor or mayor or some major conservative having one of those fits that swept Arianna Huffington ... MOREDaren Jonescu: The Last Line Of Defense: Property
The fight for property rights is the fight for reason. "Property is theft." Proudhon's classic anarchist paradox is more than a catchy slogan for international leftism. It encapsulates a complete and comprehensively absurd view of humanity -- one which finds its contemporary apotheosis in President Obama's more prosaic rendition, "You didn't build that." ... MORE
Don Watkins: President Obama Vs. My Grandfather
A conflict of visions. My grandfather, a gruff and uneducated but whip-smart guy, started out poor. Following a stint in the Army, he spent a few years working and scrimped together enough money to start his own restaurant in a small town near Philadelphia. He—and the rest of his family—worked incredibly long hours, first to keep the restaurant in ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Got A Pencil? You Didn't Build That
Nobody can make a pencil by himself. Most people would never accuse President Obama of memorizing Milton Friedman under the covers at night. Yet the patron saint of laissez-faire probably would not take as much exception as many Republicans have to Obama’s comment in Roanoke three weeks ago that “if you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. ... MORE
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