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Wealth is Produced:
December 29, 2005:
There is no such thing as a static "economic pie" that must be
distributed and redistributed, writes G. Stolyarov II. Wealth is not
zero-sum; it can be produced, created by rational minds. This is
why the producers are entitled to sovereignty over the wealth they
created: their property.
The Alleged China Threat:
December 29, 2005:
Dr. Robert P. Murphy refutes the fallacious common view that considers
China a "national security threat" simply because China trades with and
invests in the United States to an extensive degree.
Film Analysis
Natural Law and the Impropriety of
Self-Sacrifice: A Review of the "Chronicles of Narnia" Film:
December 29, 2005:
G. Stolyarov II reviews the recent film, "Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and derives useful lessons from it
about the universality of natural law and tyrants' violation of it.
However, Mr. Stolyarov also critiques the film's treatment of
self-sacrifice as a virtue, which it cannot be in the real world.
Filosofy
Why We Give Gifts:
December 29, 2005:
Dr. Edward Hudgins explains the reasons for gift-giving among selfish,
rational, non-mystical, non-altruistic individuals. Giving gifts to those
one values is no self-sacrifice. Rather, it is an affirmation of those
values.
Intelligent Design is about Religion versus Reason:
December 29, 2005:
Dr. Keith Lockitch has argued that "intelligent design" is
unacceptable as a scientific theory because its core proposition implies a
belief in the supernatural, a contradictory notion opposed to reason and
the natural law that science is supposed to study. Here, Dr. Lockitch
responds to criticism from another self-proclaimed atheist, Robert Camp,
who took issue with Lockitch's principled rejection of irrational ideas.
Politics
Learn the Constitution, Or Else:
December 29, 2005:
Dr. Gary M. Galles explains why Senator Robert Byrd's recent proposal
to mandate schools to teach about the U.S. Constitution on a
certain day is itself unconstitutional. The true content, meaning, and
significance of the Constitution are greatly misunderstood by the majority
of Americans today-- especially when they are invoked to broaden the
coercive power of the majority, a power the Founding Fathers greatly
feared.
The Greenhoax Effect:
December 29, 2005:
Manmade "global warming" is a hoax spread by a "green" scientific
establishment more interested in propaganda and control than in truth,
writes Michael Miller. In fact, the burning of fossil fuels only aids the
growth of plants and the life forms that feed on them-- making the Earth a
lusher place. The burning of fossil fuels is man's biggest and most
successful recycling project!
Campus Conscience Police?:
December 29, 2005:
Political correctness, the belief that some ideas are automatically
intolerable and should be suppressed, is slowly losing ground on college
campuses due to valiant efforts by individual rights organizations, writes
Wendy McElroy. This means an improvement for the market of ideas, where
original thought will be encouraged, rather than suppressed.
Abuse of Temporary Restraining Orders Endangers Real Victims:
December 29, 2005:
A Santa Fe judge recently granted a restraining order against
talk-show host David Letterman to a deranged, delusional viewer who
thought Letterman was harassing her through coded messages over the
airwaves. When restraining orders are granted for frivolous reasons, this
trivializes the restraining order and undermines the safety of real
victims of abuse, writes Wendy McElroy.
The "Windfall Profits" Smear:
December 29, 2005:
The suggestion that oil companies and other corporations should be
taxed on their "excess profits" is a heinous insult to all producers,
writes Alex Epstein. There is no market profit or loss that an
entrepreneur does not deserve, because all profit and loss flows from the
entrepreneur's decision to engage in economic activity, including his
decision to take risks that may result in positive or negative
consequences.
"Ecology is to
biology what astrology is to astronomy."
~ G. Stolyarov
II
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