Mein verstorbener Onkel „Boots“ Van Pelt wurde vor 80 Jahren fast getötet. Er ging am D-Day mit der 29. Infanteriedivision am Omaha Beach an Land.

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The brutality of the Hamas attack on Israel reminds us that the morality behind the Holocaust still infects our world.

Oct 9, 2023

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Big tech companies are digging their own graves with their ingratitude toward the economic liberty that allowed them to become the richest c

Aug 2, 2019

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tesla.jpgIf you’re like me, you cheered the announcement by SpaceX head Elon Musk that his company plans to send two people on a slingshot

Mar 3, 2017

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If you have a burning interest in morality, is it immoral to steal a book on it? Well that’s not exactly what Joanne Hall did. But she did..

Feb 10, 2017

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Hardcore anti-Communist Ayn Rand was, to the surprise of many who did not live through those days, not a fan of hardcore anti-Communist Rona

Feb 6, 2017

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Ray Dalio, who runs the world’s largest hedge fund, recently penned “Reflections on Trump’s Presidency” in which he urged that “Regarding...

Dec 10, 2016

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We all know that GOP Rep. Paul Ryan likes Ayn Rand. Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan -- who recently lost his bid to unseat Nancy Pelosi as his party

Dec 3, 2016

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On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, hoping to end World War II quickly and avoid the......

Aug 3, 2016

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Do you want to be smarter, healthier, and live longer? Remarkably, a new Pew survey found that most Americans answer “No!” if it requires...

Jul 28, 2016

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Quick quiz: If you jack up the price of something, do you think people will buy more or less of it? Apparently, the obvious answer “Less!”..

Jul 26, 2016

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Seventy years ago Ayn Rand, thankful for finding refuge in the United States from the totalitarian Soviet Union, wrote a short essay series

Jun 30, 2016

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A conversation I had a dozen years ago in Hungary about that country’s milk helps explain why the British voted to leave the European Union.

Jun 24, 2016

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The term “father figure” expresses the influence and example that a pater familias has on most of us. Ayn Rand’s father was born Zelman...

Jun 15, 2016

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When I was a kid, celebrations of birthdays and other personal milestones were modest. Family, a few friends, a few gifts, fun. But now I

Jun 13, 2016

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Science fiction reflects our hopes and fears for the future and, at its best, it offers an elixir of inspiration. On viewing the 1956 film F

Jun 2, 2016

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On Memorial Day, Americans honor those who died in their country’s wars. But the key to stopping deaths in wars—and the wars that regimes

May 27, 2016

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My 5-year-old daughters were very excited. My wife had taken them to the craft store to buy T-shirts with sketches on them that they could c

May 25, 2016

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It’s hard to say, because the book is so interdisciplinary. The short answer is: Ayn Rand and cities. iUniverse, the publisher, requires au

May 24, 2016

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In the late 1970s I attended an Objectivist lecture in New York where Ayn Rand answered questions. After the event wrapped, I walked toward

May 23, 2016

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I don’t know who determined that May 20 should be “Be a Millionaire Day,” though it is a good idea. I do know that most people’s ideologies

May 20, 2016

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Emma Morano, age 116, is the last person alive born in the nineteenth century. New cutting-edge technologies could mean that more than a few

May 18, 2016

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AN INTERVIEW WITH NENA WHITFIELD OF LADIES FOR LIBERTY ALLIANCE

May 16, 2016

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The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that stealing small amounts of food out of desperation “does not constitute a crime.” The adverse moral

May 11, 2016

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April 28 was “Take your daughters to work day,” and I did! (I hope all you parents took your sons along as well!) My five-year-old fraternal

Apr 29, 2016

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A Harvard survey found that only 42% of 18 to 29 year olds support capitalism. The good news of sorts is that only 33% support socialism....

Apr 28, 2016

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The Nazis used concrete to build gas chambers so they could exterminate six million Jews. But an aspiration different from that of the Gazan

Apr 25, 2016

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The Los Angeles Times recently highlighted a study published in Heart, a British Medical Journal publication, that found loneliness can...

Apr 21, 2016

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On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, my high school class traveled to the Mall in D.C. to mark the occasion. Me? I skipped the trip

Apr 21, 2016

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First, move Tax Day from April 15 to November 1 so it will never be more than a week from a national election.Have you ever noticed how Tax

Apr 18, 2016

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On Tax Day in the United States, productive individuals are punished for being productive, even as their tormentors demand that they produce

Apr 15, 2016

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If you’ve shut your eyes at the ugly spectacle of political and cultural decline around you, look in the right direction and you’ll see what

Apr 12, 2016

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Space enthusiasts mark April 12th as “Yuri’s Night Out,” a celebration of the first human in space: Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in 1961..

Apr 11, 2016

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In 2013, uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk open sourced his idea for a Hyperloop transportation system that could cut a six hour car or train trip

Apr 6, 2016

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When Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring all employers to pay workers at least $15 per hour, he unbelievably acknowledged that “Economic

Apr 5, 2016

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Sometimes you might tell a little white lie because you don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. But the lies often end in tragedy...

Apr 4, 2016

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President Obama seems to blame the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict on, of all things, Israel’s prosperity. Not only is Obama wrong..

Apr 1, 2016

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Andy Grove was one of the founders of Intel, the company that invented the microprocessor—the "computer-on-a-chip" that runs most of the

Mar 30, 2016

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The popular Disney kid-flick Zootopia does something unusual for Hollywood: it takes a swipe at government...

Mar 29, 2016

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Krugman argues that there is a consensus among economists that returning to the gold standard is a bad idea. Rather, he believes that it is

Mar 26, 2016

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If you want to celebrate human progress, you can light up the world, symbolically and literally, at Human Achievement Hour. On Saturday...

Mar 18, 2016

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Five years ago at the hospital, the joy of holding my newborn daughters in my arms was momentarily disrupted when I was asked to free up a..

Mar 16, 2016

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Transhumanism Australia, a non-profit that promotes education in science and technology, has marked March 1 as “Future Day.” It wants this..

Mar 1, 2016

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The passing of this conservative Supreme Court Justice has set off a political firestorm in a year already burning with conflict. GOP...

Feb 15, 2016

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Ed Hudgins weighs in on some of Bernie Sander's stances. "Bernie Sanders is on a jihad against 'extremely greedy and selfish financiers'"...

Feb 10, 2016

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The Force Awakens recycles plot elements, scenarios, reveals, bar scenes, Death Stars, and surviving characters from the original trilogy

Dec 22, 2015

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Genetic engineering is on an exponential growth path. In 2001 the cost of sequencing a human-sized genome was about $100 million. By 2007...

Dec 3, 2015

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A Space Odyssey again on the big screen. That’s the best way to see this visually stunning cinematic poem, like I saw it during its...

Nov 20, 2015

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If you’re a fan of Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder and digital age revolutionary, you might find Steve Jobs the movie a bit hard to take...

Oct 22, 2015

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The audience for the first Democratic presidential primary debate was not just the party faithful. It was the low-information voters. And...

Oct 15, 2015

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In New Hampshire—the primo primary state!—the Republican Liberty Caucus’s annual conference is a battlefield in the civil war within the GOP

Oct 6, 2015

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The Martian, from director Ridley Scott, is an exciting film about an astronaut stranded on the Red Planet. It celebrates the heroism that

Oct 2, 2015

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A young girl was recently interviewed on TV about her encounter with Pope Francis on his visit to the United States. She cried with joy as

Sep 25, 2015

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The second GOP presidential debates (held September 16, 2015) were grueling affairs: four candidates for nearly two hours and eleven others

Sep 17, 2015

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Robots are special types of machines. They’re programmed electro-mechanical devices that perform various physical functions, ideally better

Sep 2, 2015

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If the winner of the kiddie-table GOP debate were rewarded a seat at the adult table, Carly Fiorina would be feasting on hot turkey with...

Aug 7, 2015

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Dan Price, the CEO of credit card processing company Gravity Payments, recently set a minimum salary of $70,000 for everyone at his company.

Aug 6, 2015

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It’s more than ironic that as socialist economies, led by Greece, collapse, Democrats in America are infatuated by Vermont Sen. Bernie...

Jul 19, 2015

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Our country was established in 1776 on the premise that we all are endowed “with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life...

Jun 30, 2015

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As work in robotics and merging man and machine accelerates, we can expect more movies on this theme. Some, like Transcendence, will be

May 12, 2015

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Carly Fiorina is the latest longshot to join the Republican presidential primary field. But whatever her prospects may be, she brings two..

May 6, 2015

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The rioting in Baltimore represents criminal culture writ large. It is what happens every day on a smaller scale in poor minority...

Apr 30, 2015

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A recent Washington Post feature documents the “Tech titans’ latest project: Defy death. “ Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and venture....

Apr 22, 2015

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Barack Obama is pushing for a nuclear weapons agreement with Iran because he believes “the more people interact with open societies, the

Apr 3, 2015

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It is again Human Achievement Hour! On March 28, celebrate all that the modern world offers us as a result of the efforts of the human mind!

Mar 27, 2015

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Using Pew data, McElwee acknowledges that Millennials [those born after 1980] “are indeed less likely than baby boomers to say that more....

Mar 13, 2015

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In a Politico article Sean McElwee of Demos argues that, in the words of his title, “ Millennials Are More Racist Than You Think .” In fact

Mar 13, 2015

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A Bloomberg Markets piece on “Google Ventures and the Search for Immortality” documents how the billions of dollars Maris invests each year.

Mar 12, 2015

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LaSusa tells us that stating with a military coup in 2009 Honduras has had a succession of governments that have sought the “privatization

Feb 6, 2015

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The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz deathSurvivors of Auschwitz camp is now marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day . The Jewish

Jan 27, 2015

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The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz deathSurvivors of Auschwitz camp is now marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day .

Jan 27, 2015

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The anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp is now marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day .The Jewish survivors who.....

Jan 27, 2015

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In his 2015 State of the Union speech, President Obama counted on the American people being too ignorant to see that he was offering the

Jan 22, 2015

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We took hope at the sight of French President Francoise Hollande marching in solidarity with dozens of world leaders to denounce the Islamic

Jan 16, 2015

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The murders of French journalists by Islamist jihadists make clear even to the dogmatically self-blinded that the values of the modern world

Jan 9, 2015

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Friends of freedom have lost a friend. Martin Anderson, 78, a Hoover Institution scholar and policy advisor to presidents, has passed away.

Jan 6, 2015

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I first met Nathaniel Branden, who passed away this morning, in fall 1983. I had successfully passed my Ph.D. oral defense of dissertation..

Dec 4, 2014

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Are you, like me, pro-immigrant and in favor of a path to legal residency for illegal immigrants? If you are, you nevertheless must

Nov 24, 2014

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For the GOP the election was the easy part. The Republicans beat the party of Barack Obama, whose policies have been abject failures...

Nov 13, 2014

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Some 5,000 demonstrators in Minneapolis denounced the Washington Redskins’ team name just before the team’s game with the Minnesota Vikings.

Nov 7, 2014

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Governor Huckabee, you recently reaffirmedMike Huckabee gays God GOP 2016 election gop civil war leave republican partyyour strong

Oct 22, 2014

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Atlas Summit 2014 -- In Atlas Shrugged John Galt is a mysterious presence that seems to be destroying the world. But, in fact, Galt is

Oct 21, 2014

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GOP Chair Reince Priebus has released his party’s “ Principles for American Renewal .” By coincidence, Grover Norquist, longtime political

Oct 21, 2014

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Recently Zoltan Istvan, author of the provocative book The Transhumanist Wager, called for “regulation that restricts religious indoctrinati

Oct 2, 2014

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Atlas Shrugged Part III, the concluding installment of the film trilogy of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, is now in theaters. Its producers are on

Sep 12, 2014

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Illinois is well-known for corrupt Democratic governors and government. Sadly, establishment Republicans are joining in the sleazy moral...

Sep 2, 2014

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Zoltan Istvan, author of the"License provocative novel The Transhumanist Wager (I’ll review it soon), recently suggested in Wired that...

Aug 20, 2014

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The death of entertainer Robin Williams has again brought to public discussion the serious matter of suicide.Robin Williams hope for those

Aug 15, 2014

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, recently spoke at the “ Rebooting Congress, Causes and Campaigns 2014 ” conference in Silicon Valley...

Jul 25, 2014

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Television newscasts over the past week have featured videos of corpses, including the bodies of children, piled in hospitals and morgues

Jul 23, 2014

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On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to land and walk on the Moon. Armstrong is no longer with us

Jul 18, 2014

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In retaliation, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Serbia’s ally Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary’s ally Germany

Jun 27, 2014

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Establishment Republicans are in shock over the Virginia primary loss by GOP House majority leader Eric Cantor at the hands of Dave Brat

Jun 11, 2014

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GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that Republicans “have often lost sight of the fact that our average voter is not John Galt.

Jun 10, 2014

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My late Uncle “Boots” Van Pelt was almost killed 70 years ago. He went ashore on Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day....

Jun 6, 2014

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In another skirmish in the GOP’s civil war, Ken Blackwell recently linked mass killings with same-sex unions. This is why, in spite of the..

May 30, 2014

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I’m a big fan of the Cosmos reboot series, just as I was of the Carl Sagan original. But the host Neil deGrasse Tyson recently stumbled very

May 23, 2014

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When Israel declared its independence 66 years ago, pursuant to a UN resolution, David Ben Gurion promised the new state “will ensure

May 6, 2014

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Pope Francis’s Easter message included a prayer to “Help us to overcome the scourge of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and by the immense

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