Mitt Romney: Fruitcake?
Amy Peikoff shares her thoughts on the Republican primary candidates, including Mitt Romeny who she likens to "the oft-gifted holiday food item, that few people admit to actually liking, Romney is the candidate whom few actually like, but whom everyone assumes everyone else will vote for."Video: 9/11–A Decade Later–Lessons for the Future
In this panel discussion, titled "Upheavals in the Middle East: Assessing the Political Landscape," Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, Walid Phares, Author and Advisor to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Efraim Karsh, Director at Middle East Forum, and Daniel Pipes, President of Middle East Forum, discuss the political situation of the Middle East in light of the lessons learned since 9/11.Definitely worth a listen.Part 1 Part 2 Part 3Cross: Occupy Wall Street Protestors Want to Take The Capitalism Out of ‘Crony Capitalism’
Comments Don Watkins at Voices of Reason:[...] the real motive of the protesters is not to end ‘crony capitalism’–it’s to attack real capitalism and end whatever is left of it in America.
For years, Washington has favored certain bankers by intervening in the market. But that has nothing to do with genuine capitalism. Capitalism means that the government does one thing–protects us from force and fraud–leaving us free to conduct our economic affairs as we see fit. [...]
What the protesters object to is not government stacking the deck to determine winners and losers. They just want the government to pick different winners and losers. They want to take the ‘capitalism’ out of ‘crony capitalism’–not the other way around.
Steve Jobs and The Death of Capitalism
Scott Holleran has some poignant commentary on those who hate Steve Jobs:The response to the death of Steve Jobs is overwhelming; as I indicated in yesterday’s post, there’s an outpouring of admiration, affection, and love for the all-American capitalist. But there’s also what Ayn Rand called the hatred of the good for being good and the contrast echoes today’s stark cultural schism. As if we needed more evidence that America is dying and desperately in need of resuscitation, the Christians known for anti-gay protests of American soldiers’ funerals announced on Twitter that its members plan to picket Steve Jobs’s funeral...
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