The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
If you want to know what to expect from the Democrats’ plans for total government control of health care—and government control of everything else for that matter—consider the case of Terry Kaide, 87, and her husband Sidney, 89, both of Hawaii, Barack Obama’s state of origin. For two years this couple was not allowed to live together in the same residential care home. Why? Because government regulations allow two patients paid for by Medicaid but only one privately-paying patient to reside in that facility at the same time. This rule was meant to ensure that there are enough beds for poorer patients, who require government Medicaid funds. (Note here the moral mentality of the politicians who made this rule: If you can pay your own way, the government should limit your choices, to make the situation “fair.”) For two years officials tried to figure out a way to get around their own stupid, tangled, and inexcusable rules. Finally, the Hawaiian state legislature passed a bill that created exemptions for married couples and others. So the good news is the Kaides are back together again. And perhaps it’s also good news that this case could alert Americans to what their lives will be like if they further surrender their freedom to run their own lives to elites in Congress and the White House.
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Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
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The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
Tune to (channel #130, POTUS) Thursday, February 7 at 6:00 PM Eastern to hear TNI's Robert Bidinotto speaking on Super Tuesday's anointing of the "new progressives." (Click to listen) The show is rebroadcast at 11:00 PM Eastern the same day. The show will be posted and archived, and we'll pass that link along as soon as it becomes available. This Saturday managing editor Sherrie Gossett will participate in the taping of a panel discussion on jihad and the nature of morality, to be broadcast later on cable. Broadcast times to be announced soon. Webmaster's note: TNI ceased publication in 2011.
Editor's Desk, March 2006 Raw panic. That’s what I felt after we’d published the previous two issues. How, I wondered dismally, could we ever top those amazing covers—the infamous “Muhammad cartoon,” followed by the notorious “BraThe New Individualist cover ngelina”? I should have had more confidence in the creative talents of art designer David Sims, who produced the stunning “Muhammad” cover. This time, to showcase Stephen Green’s lighthearted tribute to “ B-Movie Individualis m,” David takes a nostalgic trip back to the ’50s with images inspired by such cheesy classics as “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers” and “Them!” Okay, maybe the imagery doesn’t have much to do with individualism, but even Steve loved the cover. And in his article, he finally offers philosophical rationalizations for loving movies that feature the visual splendors of exploding spaceships and Elle MacPherson.
Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they
The entrepreneurial spirit is the spirit of enterprise: ambition to succeed, initiative in taking action, alertness to opportunity. It mean
If history is any guide, the current economic crisis will have two results. First, large-scale government intervention will make the crisis
Let me say right from the start that I like the Star Trek franchise. I don’t spend my free time learning to speak Klingon—no offence to...
If you want to know what to expect from the Democrats’ plans for total government control of health care—and government control of everything else for that matter—consider the case of Terry Kaide, 87, and her husband Sidney, 89, both of Hawaii, Barack Obama’s state of origin. For two years this couple was not allowed to live together in the same residential care home. Why? Because government regulations allow two patients paid for by Medicaid but only one privately-paying patient to reside in that facility at the same time. This rule was meant to ensure that there are enough beds for poorer patients, who require government Medicaid funds. (Note here the moral mentality of the politicians who made this rule: If you can pay your own way, the government should limit your choices, to make the situation “fair.”) For two years officials tried to figure out a way to get around their own stupid, tangled, and inexcusable rules. Finally, the Hawaiian state legislature passed a bill that created exemptions for married couples and others. So the good news is the Kaides are back together again. And perhaps it’s also good news that this case could alert Americans to what their lives will be like if they further surrender their freedom to run their own lives to elites in Congress and the White House.
The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to secure the rights of man. Most Americans know and assent to the
The capitalist system came of age in the century from 1750 to 1850 as a result of three revolutions. The first was a political revolution...
We can understand why President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress do not want to call their attempts to socialize America’s economy..
Like a stock market that has finally found its bottom after a long, volatile decline, my spiritual assets were nearly depleted. I finally...
We’ve seen this week just what sort of warped morality guides Barack Obama and his administration. And we’ve seen just what we can expect if
Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty last Thursday, March 12, to running a massive Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of some $65 billion. He
Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate
They say that fish can’t see the water they swim in. It’s a common analogy for the tendency to take our basic values and principles so much
In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using
The first 2008 presidential election event involving the presumptive nominees, Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Arizona Republic
H.L. Mencken once wrote that, “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.....
The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on Islamic jihadism divided virtually every ideological faction in America. On the far left,
Tune to (channel #130, POTUS) Thursday, February 7 at 6:00 PM Eastern to hear TNI's Robert Bidinotto speaking on Super Tuesday's anointing of the "new progressives." (Click to listen) The show is rebroadcast at 11:00 PM Eastern the same day. The show will be posted and archived, and we'll pass that link along as soon as it becomes available. This Saturday managing editor Sherrie Gossett will participate in the taping of a panel discussion on jihad and the nature of morality, to be broadcast later on cable. Broadcast times to be announced soon. Webmaster's note: TNI ceased publication in 2011.
Editor's Desk, March 2006 Raw panic. That’s what I felt after we’d published the previous two issues. How, I wondered dismally, could we ever top those amazing covers—the infamous “Muhammad cartoon,” followed by the notorious “BraThe New Individualist cover ngelina”? I should have had more confidence in the creative talents of art designer David Sims, who produced the stunning “Muhammad” cover. This time, to showcase Stephen Green’s lighthearted tribute to “ B-Movie Individualis m,” David takes a nostalgic trip back to the ’50s with images inspired by such cheesy classics as “Earth Versus the Flying Saucers” and “Them!” Okay, maybe the imagery doesn’t have much to do with individualism, but even Steve loved the cover. And in his article, he finally offers philosophical rationalizations for loving movies that feature the visual splendors of exploding spaceships and Elle MacPherson.
Readers of Ayn Rand ’s Atlas Shrugged , which so notably portrayed the American businessman as a hero, may well be wondering what to say
What has prompted people, over the course of three millennia, to look upon work and commerce as degrading and deceitful? Why have they