The Little Red Riding Hood's father killed the wolf that had tried to eat her. On their way back home, he admonished her. "You are too gullible," he said. "You must exercise discretion about whom you should trust." She said, "But Daddy, the wolf was hungry." Her father replied, "Yes, the… Read full post »

Out-of-control spending has been an issue for a number of years. The issue that is not discussed but should be discussed is this. Not all spending is created equal, and mattering as much as the quantity of spending is its quality. And this is something that should be considered in any… Read full post »

Camille Paglia, in addressing socialist tendencies of some American university students, said that the toilets in which they graffitied their slogans came from capitalism. There is a problem with that argument. There were toilets in the Soviet Union as well; and there are also toilets in places, such… Read full post »

Regional autonomy is conducive to liberty, but with a caveat. In a large and diverse country, different people will see things in different ways and will prefer different ways of life. With different regions having different values and different lifestyles, regionalism gives people meaningful choice… Read full post »

Many in the anti-tax movement believe that taxes on higher incomes is "class warfare" or "punishing success." In fact, it is simple rationality. These people are wealthy enough that they can afford to pay a slightly higher tax. Whereas for people who do not have what they have, taxes can be… Read full post »

In a recent TV appearance, Newt Gingrich had a fall and had to be taken to the hospital after someone asked him if he was stable enough to be US President.

Normally, I would never say anything about something like that. However we are dealing with Republicans, who have a time-honored… Read full post »

Smart competes; genius innovates.

Smart follows existing directions; genius creates new directions.

Smart learns from existing knowledge; genius creates knowledge that does not yet exist.

Smart learns how things work; genius figures out how they could work better.

Smart works in existing establishmen… Read full post »

It was 2 in the morning, and the Seeker was walking around the neighborhood. Firefly, thought he, as an illumined unit of flesh and awareness flew before him and disappeared again in the dark. The moon, like a half of brie in the sky, was illuminating the path. And on the… Read full post »

I was talking to a hard-core Christian family, and they were talking a lot about religious freedom. Then I asked them about other religions, and they said that they can't afford to tolerate other religions because other religions are against Christianity.

Uh-oh. So you appropriate religious freedom f… Read full post »

The libertarian believes that everybody is his own responsibility; he also believes that one's only
responsibility is toward himself.

What he forgets is that, without science, most of what business sells would not exist; without education, most people would be unemployable; without parenting, nobody… Read full post »

The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to… Read full post »

In Eric Banden's memoir, there is a situation in which he asks Ayn Rand how she could have so precisely
developed the Richard Rearden character in Atlas Shrugged. Her response: "It's a rational universe." She then
elaborated that for every woman there is a male equivalent; and, understanding as she wo… Read full post »

During the Bush administration, when America accumulated $6 trillion in debt, with a Republican Congress and White House, at a time that there was absolutely no need for it and before the baby boomers had even started to retire, a Republican commentator stated that Reagan had proved that deficits do… Read full post »

A being that has evolved as himself, as part of his species, and as part of life, will naturally have orientation toward all three of the preceding. It will be natural for man to care about himself, about humanity and about life. All three interests will be rational function of human… Read full post »

There are people who believe human nature to be any number of things,
ranging from economic self-interest to collective action for benefit
of humanity to supporting life on earth. To have a rightful
understanding of what it is that one serves one needs to have a full
picture of what it… Read full post »

Dear Mr. Gibson,

You have stated, when you converted to Christianity, that achieving "world" goals such as fame leaves one empty. I would like to know what is worse: Being empty or being full of wrong things?

It is not a particularly outrageous question to ask, in light of your… Read full post »

There are few good ways to learn about the death of a loved one, but few ways are worse than finding an obituary while doing a search on her name. When that person is 36 years old, in excellent health, and doing extremely well all around, grief is compounded by shock… Read full post »

Many people refer to any effort to work with genetics and nature as "playing God." These people however have nothing to say about man driving one half the nature's species into extinction or burning the Amazon. This hypocrisy has gone on for long enough.

If man can destroy, then man can… Read full post »