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Netahyahu Educates Prez. Obama: 1967 Lines Are Indefensible

May 20, 2011 | Politics

Moments ago, following a lengthy meeting with the president, Israel's Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu responded to President Obama's call for Israel and Palestine to return to pre-1967 borders, saying, "While Israel is willing to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines because these lines are indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place."



Netayahu also said, "Israel cannot negotiate with a Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas."

No Time To Go Galt

May 12, 2011 | Philosophy, Politics

Writes Philosopher Onkar Ghate over at CSM:

How, people wondered, could Rand have foreseen all this? Was she a prophet? No, she answered. [Ayn Rand] had simply identified the basic cause of why the country was veering from crisis to new crisis.

Was the solution to “go Galt” and quit society? No, Rand again answered. The solution was simultaneously much easier and much harder. “So long as we have not yet reached the state of censorship of ideas,” she once said, “one does not have to leave a society in the way the characters did in Atlas Shrugged.... But you know what one does have to do? One has to break relationships with the culture.... [D]iscard all the ideas – the entire cultural philosophy which is dominant today.”

Now, if you’ve only seen the movie, the fact that "Atlas Shrugged" is not a political novel might surprise you. But the book’s point is that our plight is caused not by corrupt politicians (who are only a symptom) orsome alleged flaw in human nature. It’s caused by the philosophic ideas and moral ideals most of us embrace. ['Atlas Shrugged': With America on the brink, should you 'go Galt' and strike?]

For more on Rand's philosophy read Leonard Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Why I Won’t Vote For Ron Paul

May 12, 2011 | Politics

Writes Amy Peikoff over on Why I Won’t Vote For Ron Paul:
Today the top story on Ron Paul’s web site says that, according to a recent poll, Ron Paul would, if elections were held today, have a realistic chance of beating Barack Obama. [...]

The reason that he has so much appeal as a candidate for 2012 is, of course, because of the Tea Party. In fact, I believe someone during the first GOP/conservative/whatever debate that was conducted in South Carolina last week actually called him the “godfather” of the Tea Party. Ron Paul’s been around for years and there was no Tea Party until recently, so just using Mill’s Methods you can see that isn’t true. It was Rick Santelli who started the Tea Party movement and he credits Ayn Rand for inspiring him. “I’m an Ayn Rander,” he said. (He mentions Ayn Rand in this video, for example.)

Nonetheless, Ron Paul seems to be the candidate who has the longest track record with respect to supporting the drastic spending cuts and radical reforms in monetary policies that Tea Party members would like to see. For instance he has supported “open competition” in currency and the gold standard for years. He advocates abolishing the Income Tax and the IRS, and would instead finance the federal government via excise taxes and non-protectionist tariffs (which would be possible to do only because he also advocates massive cuts in spending). He has criticized race-based quotas and, while he at first seemed to be duped (like virtually everyone else) about the dangers of global warming, he has since described it as a “hoax.” Music to our ears, right?

In fact, if all one considered were the statements he made during the recent South Carolina debate, Paul sounded like the best candidate on the stage, on nearly every issue he discussed. But some important issues weren’t discussed, and...

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Remembering Elian Gonzalez

May 11, 2011 | Politics

Remembering Elian Gonzalez | Scott Holleran | 22 April 2003 I met Elian Gonzalez during a visit to the Miami house which had become the flashpoint for a profound philosophical conflict--days before his pre-dawn seizure on Saturday, April 22, 2000.A Sin to Deport Elián | Leonard Peikoff | 20 January 2000 In the name not of Cuban nationalism, but of Americanism in its original and deepest philosophical meaning, Elián Gonzalez must be allowed to remain here. Let this poor boy have a chance to live a human life. If "compassion" is one of our politicians' chief values, as they keep telling us, can't they show him any of it?The Rights of Elián Gonzales |Peter Schwartz | 14 January 2000 Is communism physically harmful to human life? That should be the fundamental question in the Elián Gonzalez case.The Life of Six Year Old Elián Gonzales is in Bill Clinton's hands |Mark Da Cunha | 13 January 2000 The fundamental issue is not about "Florida's large and politically powerful anti-Castro Cuban community" versus the "bond between parent and child" as one commentator insinuated (USA Today 7 Jan 2000). There is something far more important than the "parental bond" between Elián's father and "the dignity of the Cuban people" as Elián's father referred to his son in a Castro sponsored rally (observe that even Elián's father admits that his son is first and foremost a political tool). That something is Elián's inalienable right to his own life -- in Cuba that inalienable right does not legally exist.Speech on Elián Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 1 | Edwin Locke | 5 May 2000 On July 4, 1776 America's Founding Fathers identified the fundamental moral principle on which our country was based. This principle was that every individual possessed the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Founding Fathers also identified the proper role of government; it was to protect individual rights -- specifically, to protect individuals from the initiation of force by other people, including the government itself.Speech on Elián Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 2 |Edwin Locke | 8 May 2000 The difference between Cuba and America is not just a matter of lifestyle, as some have claimed. It is not a difference like that between Republicans and Democrats.Speech on Elián Gonzalez in Washington, D.C., Part 3 |Edwin Locke | 10 May 2000 Let us address a deeper question: why do Clinton and Reno want Elián back in Cuba?Why Was Elian Gonzalez Less Worthy Than Giselle Cordova? | Scott Holleran | 12 July 2001 Giselle's father, Dr. Leonel Cordova, defected to the United States last year after escaping from a Cuban medical mission in Africa. Tragically, on June 17, 4-year-old Giselle's mother was killed in a motorcycle crash in Cuba. Like Elian Gonzalez, Giselle's father demanded that his child be sent to live with him. But, unlike Elian in America, Giselle was at the mercy of a dictator. Castro refused to release the girl.A Firsthand Account Of Child Abuse, Castro Style | Armando Valladares | 16 May 2000 I was in solitary confinement in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag -- where I spent 22 years for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Communist regime -- when I heard a child's voice whimpering. "Get me out of here! Get me out of here! I want to see my mommy!" I thought my senses were failing me. I could not believe that they had imprisoned a child in those dungeons.Elián: Supreme Court Upholds Slavery Over Freedom | Chris Wolski | 1 July 2000 Wednesday's decision by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, refusing to hear an appeal that would have kept Elián Gonzalez in the United States, should have every American hanging their head in shame.Elian Gonzalez: The Day America Lost its Soul | Nicholas Provenzo | 24 April 2005 Life under a communist dictatorship is abuse and in the Elian Gonzalez case, our government erred in falling to acknowledge it."Life" in Cuba for Elián | Jose Alvarino | 3 June 2000 I'd like to share some thoughts regarding life in Communist Cuba, important to know and understand prior to formulating an opinion on the Elián Gonzalez case, or life in the Island.

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