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Plastic Bags Help The Environment. Banning Them Serves No Purpose, Except For Activists To Lord It Over The Rest Of Us.

February 22, 2020

Once discarded, they take up little room in landfills. They don’t release greenhouse gases like decomposing paper and cotton bags. The plastic bags’ tiny quantity of carbon goes back underground, where it can be safely sequestered from the atmosphere and ocean.

Why Ayn Rand Laughs – A Survey of Her Ideas for Human Life on Planet Earth

February 21, 2020

"Roark is laughing at his dismissal from architecture school." Like Kira's character, he also laughing "because to him these obstacles seem small and inconsequential relative to his prospects for achievement and joy." Our country was based on a man's right to the pursuit of happiness. His own happiness. Not anyone else's. A private, personal, selfish motive.

Why Ayn Rand Laughs — The Las Vegas Democratic Socialism Debate

February 20, 2020

Democratic socialism is a popular topic in 2018 America, and the Nordic model is frequently hailed as the real-life success story to emulate. Convincing Swedes, Danes, Finns, and Norwegians of that is another story. The real Scandinavian economic success story is brilliant. It occurred in the years 1850-1950, and it was spearheaded by a Renaissance man by the name of Anders Chydenius in 1763.

Economics Can Draw The Line Beyond Which Politics Can Not Reach. We Must Cultivate Economic Literacy To Maintain The Boundary.

February 20, 2020

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything.

A Little Bit Of Bad Can Destroy An Awful Lot Of Good. Be Sure To Root It Out Of Your Relationships And Your Business.

February 19, 2020

The problem is that “Bad is stronger” than good, so they’re trying to arm the reader with ways to counter what pushes around good. They aim to help the reader “deploy the rational brain to keep bad at bay in both private and public life,” and to even “learn how to stop fights before they can begin.”

Say’s Law – Supply Constitutes Demand – Is The Principle Behind The Entrepreneurial Free Market System. Here’s A 10-point Summary.

February 18, 2020

Among the many important implications of Say’s Law is that prosperity and economic expansions are supply-side phenomena, a consequence of entrepreneurs, the profit motive, saving, investment and capital accumulation.

California’s Anti-Gig-Worker Law Is A Grave Moral Offense That’s Turning Democrats Into Libertarians.

February 17, 2020

I’m more motivated to change this law than anything I’ve ever worked on because it has such a direct and negative impact on peoples’ lives. I believe very deeply in economic freedom, the right to pursue your calling. AB5 is a grave moral offense.

American Living Standards Have Never Been Better.

February 16, 2020

The narrative that the US economy is performing poorly and that Capitalism isn’t working for everyone is misconstrued and demonstrably false.

Now Government Is Going To Tell Us What Fashions We May And May Not Wear. (Hint: Not Prada.)

February 15, 2020

New York City's Commission on Human Rights announced a sweeping settlement with Prada over some of its designs, and the terms threaten artistic expression across the industry.

American Politicians And Administrators Of All Stripes Are Sounding More And More Like Soviet Central Planners.

February 14, 2020

Just what are conservatives so afraid of? If Huawei is truly a tool of the state as they want to believe, and as they keep telling us, then it’s a safe bet that its efforts to lead the world toward an amazing 5G-enhanced future will fall very short.

How Has The American Political Process Produced An Openly Anti-American Political Party?

February 13, 2020

Sanders declared that America is “a racist society from top to bottom,” and that the American dream is “more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela, and Argentina” than in the United States.

Voltaire’s Independent Mind Revolutionized the Accepted Policies on How to Create a Harmonious Society

February 12, 2020

Even in his final days, Voltaire relished civilization in every form. In 1778, one month prior to his death, Voltaire embraced Benjamin Franklin. Here two of history's great bon vivants, one of the Old World, one of the New, one a patriarch of Europe, one a republican from America. Voltaire, who had spanned the age of classicism right up to the revolutionary era, was the most famous man of letters in all of Europe.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?