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Two jobs lost already, and not a single day served in the White House. (Read the entire blog entry)

Try to explain government today to someone from 1909.  You can start with the fact that 1908 was the last year that all US Coins displayed an effigy of Liberty.  I end there. (Read the entire blog entry)

The world is dying from people's lying. It's time to think for oursleves. (Read the entire blog entry)

Its been a few years since I've lived in a place where it snows. Puttsing around the net I found this neat site with info on snowflakes, snowflake photography, and some very beautiful pictures of snowflakes. (Read the entire blog entry)

The current scenario of the Detroit 3 automakers pleading for our tax dollars as a bailout is really the government's fault. Most things are the government's fault. Rand defended railroad tycoons who ended up bribing legislatures for land, because corrupt legislatures were the nature or source of the evil. They still are today. Even still, I got this idea by listening to the radio today -- new cars made here should be appropriately named in order to be honest ...  (Read the entire blog entry)

While Rand was quite vocal in her praise of Aristotle, much of her philosophy and many of her doctrines are strikingly similar to that of two other schools which during the Hellenistic age held much greater influence than did the Peripatos. One school, the Stoics, is mostly familiar to us in the parody of Spock, the "emotionless" pointy-eared Vulcan. The Epicureans were so hated by the early Christians and Jews that epicure and apikoros became bywords for godlessness and licentiousness. This characterization was, of course, a slander, but even Spinoza in the 17th Century was branded apikoros as he was placed under the almost unprecedented lifetime kherem or excommunication of the Jewry of Amsterdam. Below I have posted the forty Principle Doctrines. My source is epicurus.net

Ted Keer (Read the entire blog entry)

Today I went swimming in a swimming pool.  I'm nice and clean.  I wish I could do that everyday! ... (Read the entire blog entry)

I picked the following quotes because of the unique response that they could have on the socialist mindset. It's not just what you say, but how you say it.

I remind my blog readers here that I'm a former zealot-Christian-socialist, and that when I first heard about Rand -- that she promoted selfishness -- I experienced moral revulsion and a deep fear of her (bordering on hate). Even after purchasing the Ayn Rand Lexicon, I avoided the "A" section like the plague (because it contained "abortion" and "atheism").

Using the point that how you say it is about as important as what it is that you have to say, I looked at quotes with a narrow aim. These quotes are meant to appeal to the mind without stirring up the emotional revulsion so common -- perhaps universal -- to the socialist mindset of which I was once a willing victim.

If I had first been approached with these quotes -- instead of being just told to read some Rand -- then my "persuasion" wouldn't have taken the precious months that it did. (Read the entire blog entry)

From "My Future File,"  The Ayn Rand Letter (Read the entire blog entry)

An answer to 'moral equivalence.' (Read the entire blog entry)