January 2011
73 posts
“Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every...”
– Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of...”
– Ayn Rand. AHhahahahahahah.
was Ayn Rand a man, or a parasite?
(via 3liza)
A link to SomethingAwful. Excellent sources. As for your quote, I’m happy to say I’ve extensively battled this quote with bleeding-hearts before, so I recommend you read this and this for my breakdown of those...
“Ideas are far more powerful than guns, we don’t allow our enemies to have guns,...”
– Joseph Stalin (via ifoundareason)
Which explains why there are so many who would take our guns and suppress our ideas.
(via statehate)
“The post office is usually pointed out as the price example of government...”
– Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (via iosepos)
“‘The greatest good for the greatest number’ is a vicious phrase; for there is no...”
– Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (via iosepos)
“There is no collective good. Strictly speaking, there is not even any common...”
– Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (via iosepos)
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture acknowledged last week that it was behind the...”
– Your tax dollars at work. (via keyneswasdrunk)
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.
“All work is an act of philosophy. And when men will learn to consider productive...”
– Hugh Akston, Atlas Shrugged (via idealman)
“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong,...”
– http://politicsnetnews.blogspot.com/2010/11/eurofreedom-john-galts-speech.html (via sonnysoniel)
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Hold My Drink Bitch: Why I don't have a good... →
arabonradar:
I guess the latest smear against Ayn Rand is that she used social security and medicare funds toward the end of her life. This somehow shows that she was a hypocrite because she was against the existence of government handouts of any kind.
Are people today smart enough to figure out that social…
This needs to be seen.
Regulators Targeting Texting and Walking, iPods... →
prism-:
evilteabagger:
If this passes, I quit.
What is this. I don’t even.
AP: Obamacare Won’t Hold Down Costs and you can’t... →
talkstraight:
Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare’s independent economic expert told Congress on Wednesday.
The landmark legislation probably won’t hold costs down, and it won’t let everybody keep their current health insurance if they like it, Chief Actuary Richard Foster told the House Budget Committee. His...
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via raindropsonredroses)
The Trouble with Canadian Healthcare. →
coeus:
Americans spend 55 percent more than Canadians do on healthcare as a percentage of their national economy. But consider what Americans get forthe money they spend: compared to Canada, the United States has 327 percent more MRI units and 183 percent more CT scanners per million population. The United States also produces 100 percent more inpatient surgical procedures per million...
“There are several pieces of the puzzle one must understand to see why this is...”
– http://mises.org/daily/4998 (via logicallypositive)
I previously was hesitant about embarking into the world of academic philosophy, for Objectivism is fought on all sides imaginable. I realize now that that no longer matters to me. If I seek to teach philosophy, I shall, regardless of sneering, tenured colleagues.
Anything less is cowardice.
Ron Paul: On Real Respect for the Constitution →
laliberty:
By misinterpreting the general welfare clause, the interstate commerce clause, and the “necessary and proper” clause, Congress has justified every conceivable expansion of the federal government. Congress also has misinterpreted the 14th Amendment and legislated as though it had repealed the 10th Amendment. Sadly, Congress has also systematically abdicated its prerogatives and...
Best conversation I've read all night
Anonymous: Don't you want a man you can control?
Shelby: Would that even be a man?
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Robert P Murphy intellectually whomps Krugman →
logicallypositive:
I rate like this quote:
Now that I’ve given a summary of the Austrian view of capital and interest, we get the reward: their explanation of the business cycle. When interest rates are pushed down below their market levels (by expansionary central-bank policy, for example), this sets in motion the same processes that would occur if there were an actual increase in savings....
how much I care about the jets/football.
statehate:
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buhriancorey:
College is one of America's worst investments →
youngmanhattanite:
utnereader:
theweekmagazine:
At least that’s what a new study suggests. The study found that nearly half of students make “no significant gains in learning” in their first two years on campus, and that they spend 50 percent less time studying than their 1970s and 1980s counterparts.
This is “depressing,” but hardly “shocking,” says Matt Kiebus in Death + Taxes. Anyone...
Unborn Baby Eagles →
mecheduckface:
combattant-de-la-liberte:
They could have soared like eagles
Because of our abortion laws, millions of children will never grow up. Their families will never know them. They will never sit at the dinner table, be educated, grow up, marry, or work at a job. They will never become presidents, explorers, doctors, inventors, the person who discovers a cure for AIDS or a cure for...
geekspliff-deactivated20110729 asked: Well thank you! If you ever want to come down with Katie and smoke it with Adam and you guys are welcome ! I promise it will be the best bong you've smoked out of yet :D
Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks →
[I]t has become clear how scrupulously careful WikiLeaks has been in releasing these cables in order to avoid unnecessary harm to innocent people, as the Associated Press reported how closely WikiLeaks was collaborating with its newspaper partners in deciding which cables to release and what redactions were necessary. Indeed, one of the very few documents which anyone has been able to claim has...
The Video That Got Loughner Suspended →
evilteabagger:
Ramblings of genocide, the wars, the Constitution.
This is a deeply disturbed man.
Evil Teabagger: New and Higher Taxes in Obamacare →
alexholzbach:
Those in favor of keeping Obamacare in place will continue to scream that there are no new taxes or tax increases in it. When you tell them that, in fact, there are tax increases, they ask you to prove it.
Now, you can:
Individual Mandate Excise Tax
Employer Mandate…
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“When Kos gloated over the deaths of Americans in Fallujah, the media wasn’t...”
– Suddenly the Media is Concerned About Tone | RedState (via conservatarian)
That my friends is called a burn.
(via evilteabagger)
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Os Mutantes - Ave Genghis Khan