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Net Neutrality Neuters the Internet [Video]

POST by The Editors | View All Posts December 15, 2014

What is net neutrality? And why does it matter? Proponents of net neutrality claim that it is necessary to keep the Internet “free” and functioning the way it was designed.

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Mark Cuban, Ayn Rand, and Neutering the Internet

POST by Steve Simpson | View All Posts November 19, 2014

“If Ayn Rand were an up and coming author today,” Mark Cuban recently tweeted, “she wouldnt (sic) write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.”

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Entitlements Aren’t Commitments They’re Coercion

POST by Don Watkins | View All Posts January 25, 2013

From Obama’s inauguration speech: “The commitments we make to each other — through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security — these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us.”

Disconnected Dots

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts January 12, 2010

Last week President Obama claimed that “our intelligence community failed to connect those dots” signaling a plot to blow up Flight 253. But ritual flogging of the intelligence community has diverted attention from a larger failure — this one belonging squarely on Obama’s shoulders.

Destination? Non-Victory

POST by Elan Journo | View All Posts August 04, 2009

July was the worst month for U.S. casualties in Afghanistan — not just in 2009, but since the war began nearly eight years ago.

Further Reading

Ayn Rand | 1957

For the New Intellectual

The Moral Meaning of Capitalism

An industrialist who works for nothing but his own profit guiltlessly proclaims his refusal to be sacrificed for the “public good.”

Ayn Rand | 1961

The Virtue of Selfishness

The Objectivist Ethics

What is morality? Why does man need it? — and how the answers to these questions give rise to an ethics of rational self-interest.

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