Libertarian icon Ayn Rand interviewed on television for the first time by a smoking Mike Wallace on CBS in 1959. Fascinating discussion. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) Continue reading
Tag: Tea Party
The thing about lowering taxes is…
I’m in favor of lowering and simplifying America’s tax code. There is wide bi-partisan consensus amongst economists and (not-as-wide, but still some) consensus amongst politicians that America’s bloated, convoluted tax code can and should be made significantly simpler and smaller. The US tax code is currently approximately 73,000 pages long. That’s longer than the Bible! … Continue reading The thing about lowering taxes is…
A raw glimpse at the Tea Party psyche
I came across a post by Ann Barnhardt on American Thinker titled We The Stupid, and thought ‘ooh this sounds interesting’. I like thinkers. I then stepped through a portal, into the Twilight Zone. Kansas-born Colorado resident Barnhardt sincerely thinks that: The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled … Continue reading A raw glimpse at the Tea Party psyche
People don’t trust mainstream journalism because it has forgotten how to even aspire to present reality
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen has written an enlightening essay titled “The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism”. It’s an academic’s way of saying the news is kinda fatuous because often news organizations strive too hard to be ‘objective’ in a way that misses the point – they … Continue reading People don’t trust mainstream journalism because it has forgotten how to even aspire to present reality
