Economics

On Paying in Full as the Ticket Into Colleges

A reply to a news story about wealthy applicants paying full freight to get into college.

Why is this news? College is expensive — always has been, always will be. Just because the economic adolescents had a run while they spent down the accumulated wealth of the real producers doesn't mean they can contravene physics. Businessmen, engineers, miners, and farmers are the anti-entropy to the entropy of government. Watch what happens when there's no more wealth to redistribute.

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The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

One of the seminal events in my life was reading Atlas Shrugged. To my mind, Objectivism is the only rational modus operandi for the human race. What is interesting in this 1959 interview is how little Mike Wallace understood — or chose not to understand — of what Ayn Rand was actually

The End of the Great American Experiment

Hard to believe how close we are to the end of life as we know it. I knew that madness had made inroads during the global-warming debate, but I never imagined how deep the intellectual rot had progressed. The emergency is real

US Government COVID-19 Response Plan

How does this craziness get created? Why is no one standing up to the Politburo's five-year plan? How did this happen so quickly — and why don't I stand up? The response-plan document

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The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

The End of the Great American Experiment

US Government COVID-19 Response Plan