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Science & Technology
Keep the Lights On—and Shine ‘Em on Environmentalist Nonsense
Craig Biddle March 31, 2012
Turning out the lights for “Earth Hour” is the perfect symbol of the ultimate goal of the environmentalist movement, which is to erase industry—and thus human life—from the face of the Earth. To genuine environmentalists (as against people who call themselves environmentalists but don’t understand what the movement is really…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Memo to Justice Kagan: Taxes Are Coercive
Ari Armstrong March 30, 2012
Apparently Justice Elena Kagan is oblivious to the obvious fact that taxes are coercive, in that they forcibly take wealth away from the owners of that wealth and give it to others. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered oral arguments regarding the Medicaid mandate that ObamaCare would impose on states.…
History, Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Why does E.J. Dionne Pretend the United States is a Democracy?
Gideon Reich March 30, 2012
Commenting on the Supreme Court session regarding Obamacare, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. wrote: And in arguing for restraint, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked what was wrong with leaving as much discretion as possible “in the hands of the people who should be fixing this, not us.” It was nice…
Education & Parenting
Proposed Ban on Words Assaults Reason and Life
Ari Armstrong March 29, 2012
I am nearly at a loss for words: “The New York City Department of Education is waging a war on words of sorts, and is seeking to have words they deem upsetting removed from standardized tests,” reports CBS New York. The offending words include “dinosaur” because the term suggests “evolution…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Force Begets Force Under Health Mandates
Ari Armstrong March 29, 2012
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday pertaining to the ObamaCare insurance mandate. At issue is whether the federal government may force people to purchase health insurance. The arguments demonstrate that the mandate is a response to the problems created by other government controls of health care and insurance. Consider…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Interview with Ann McElhinney on Fracking, James Cameron, and Cold Beer
Joshua Lipana March 28, 2012
Ann McElhinney is a journalist and documentary film director and producer. Her films include Mine Your Own Business (2006), which takes on the environmentalist opposition to mining. This film incurred the wrath of 80 NGOs, including Greenpeace, which tried to stop its screening in the National Geographic auditorium in Washington…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Mandatory DNA Testing for Newborns and Parents would Violate their Rights
Michael A. LaFerrara March 28, 2012
At the behest of “fathers’ rights advocates,” New Jersey Assemblyman Gilbert Wilson (D) has “proposed a measure . . . that would require all newborns—and their parents—to undergo genetic testing to create a record should questions arise about whom the father or mother is.” A justifiably angry NJ Star-Ledger columnist,…
Science & Technology
From Morning Brew to Space Exploration, Good News Is All Around
Ari Armstrong March 27, 2012
[caption id="attachment_3328" align="alignright" width="199"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] A question has been bothering me since a Colorado high school student asked me last year: Why don’t the news media report more good news? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the business: “If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the rationale.…
Politics & Rights
Verizon has Moral Rights, "Excessive Concentration" and "Public Interest" be Damned
Joshua Lipana March 26, 2012
T-Mobile, other companies, and so-called “public-interest” groups, are calling for the government to block Verizon’s purchase of “spectrum from cable companies,” the Washington Times reports. The “justifications” for this call for government force are that (1) if Verizon were to make such a purchase, that would create “‘excessive concentration’ of…
Arts & Culture
Hunger Games a Worthy Addition to Dystopian Corpus
Ari Armstrong March 25, 2012
In The Hunger Games, tyrannical rulers of a future dystopia force children to fight to the death in an annual tournament as a means to suppress and control the population. Given the story’s gruesome subject matter, what explains the popularity of Suzanne Collins’s book and the new film based on…
Ayn Rand & Objectivism
Is Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights Properly Classified as a “Natural Rights” Theory?
TOS Admin March 25, 2012
This letter and reply are from the Spring 2012 issue of TOS. To the Editor: I must take issue with part of Craig Biddle’s article “Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights” [TOS, Fall 2011]. Mr. Biddle is right to distinguish Rand’s view of rights from both the religious notion that we…
Education & Parenting
“Best Friends” Ban in UK Schools Mirrors Ayn Rand’s Anthem
Ari Armstrong March 24, 2012
An almost-unbelievable story in The Sun claims that teachers at some UK schools have banned “best friends.” Harry Hawkins writes for that paper: Teachers are banning schoolkids from having best pals—so they don’t get upset by fall-outs. Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups. Educational…
Economics
Bernanke Defends Fed Policy that Turned Dollar Into Four Cents
Ari Armstrong March 23, 2012
Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke is “one of the most powerful men in Washington,” notes the New York Times. Of course he is: He holds near-dictatorial powers over the nation’s money supply. In a recent talk at George Washington University, Bernanke condemned the gold standard for hampering the government’s ability…
Science & Technology
ObamaCare Turns Terrible Two, The Fight to Repeal it Continues
Joshua Lipana March 23, 2012
Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law the rights-violating “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” also known as ObamaCare. This is a good time to visit and share the various articles from the The Objective Standard’s Health Care page, where you’ll find vital essays such as Moral Health…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Supreme Court Properly Slaps Down EPA’s Assault on Property Owners, But . . .
Ari Armstrong March 22, 2012
The Supreme Court helped protect property rights yesterday by deciding unanimously that Mike and Chantell Sackett can legally challenge the EPA’s demand that they cease work on building their new home. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), which represented the Sacketts, announced the victory. A Reason TV video summarizes the case.…