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ARI Watch has a devastating article of the same title: Ayn Rand on Immigration.

Some things are obvious, period. That TEW is not a theory is obvious with a little thought.

 

ARI Watch has a devastating article of the same title: Ayn Rand on Immigration.

Let's not get caught up in all the non-essential questions regarding which candidate is more evil. Have we honestly not settled on the fact that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are ridiculous clowns? Why should we take seriously anything they say before the election?
There is only one question to answer: Which clown do we want selecting up to four Supreme Court Justices in the next several years?
It's actually the only question that really matters in this election. Forget what the candidates are saying today or promising for tomorrow. It's all trivial minutia in comparison to the unprecedented elephant in the room, which we strangely don't hear much about anymore: the fact that our next president will radically influence the direction of the judicial branch of our government.
In broad terms, Trump is a big businessman trying to survive in an anti-big business political climate. He merely dabbles in intellectual matters, probably because he's not that bright and has a poor attention span. He entered politics without much initial support from his own party, and clawed his way to the top. He will probably try to run the country like a business and thus do what he thinks is pro-American. I don't see him shoving Christianity, Environmentalism, or any other devastating philosophy down our throats. Or picking judges based on such ideas.
On the other hand, we have Clinton, a lawyer who stood beside her cheating husband before using him to start her own scandal-ridden political career. She has adopted nearly every liberal movement that gains any sort of traction, and she continues to push for more socialization of health care and education. If elected, I'm positive that she will nominate liberal judges and absolutely ruin the Supreme Court for a generation.
Which is why I say: Vote Trump!

I haven’t seen the History Channel series and don’t intend to, but I wanted to comment on the following by Repairman:    
First though, a brief comment on what I left out under the ellipsis:  “the most amazing man of the age:”.   I haven’t thought about who I’d nominate for that position but it wouldn’t be Tesla, amazing though he undoubtedly was.  Speaking of Edison, he would be even more amazing.  There are other candidates too, but let it pass.   OK, was Edison, desperately or otherwise, trying to undermine any of Tesla’s innovations?  “Undermine” meaning some negative action against.   Well, what was going on?   Before Edison, the only electric lights were carbon arc lights.  They worked over only short distances from the power source.     These lights operated at high current / low voltage.  Edison was the first man of anyone working in the electrical field to realize that that was relevant to the problem of distributing power, and that in order to transfer power by wire over a long distance required the reverse: low current / high voltage and of course a new type of lamp that worked with it.     Compared to even geniuses like Kelvin in England he more clearly understood the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance and the consequences of Ohm’s Law regarding power.  He understood that the power loss before the current got to the device went as current squared times the wire resistance.   He invented a high voltage / low current system, which included the Edison light bulb that worked at high voltage / low current.  It was a three wire system (plus, ground, minus) and he patented it.   Now about the voltage source, the generator.  Basically a generator consists of loops of wire rotating in a magnetic field.  The result is alternating current.  You might say that alternating current is natural current.  Edison knew that such current, even at fairly low voltage, is very dangerous.  So he added a commutator to his generator to convert it to direct current.  (He also much improved existing generator design.)  His three wire system worked with either alternating or direct current.     His preference for direct current and his taking the trouble to convert to it was due to his concern for the safety of the end users.  (Most people who get electrocuted in their homes today would not have been had the current been direct.)   Enter Tesla.  He saw the value of Edison’s idea of using high voltage / low current.  If high / low is good, higher / lower is even better.  That is, you could send power over even longer distances.  He added a transformer (discovered by Faraday) right after the generator to step up the voltage and reduce the current, and generator not far from the user to reverse the change.     However, transformers (the simple ones of those days anyway) work only with alternating current, so direct current was out.   He took his idea to Westinghouse.  Westinghouse hired Tesla to design this system, but he did not contract with Edison to use his three wire system on which it was based.  Westinghouse was a thief in that regard.  I gather Tesla didn’t concern himself with the business end of it.     Edison, or rather the Edison company (by then – I think – he had lost control of his company to the financiers), sued Westinghouse and won in court.  Westinghouse then contracted to use Edison’s system.   The Edison company started a propaganda campaign against alternating current emphasizing its dangers.  It was true propaganda but in the end the economic advantage of longer distances between generator and user outweighed considerations of safety.  Also some devices (some invented by Tesla, e.g. the alternating current motor) require alternating current.     By the way, the electric distribution system has come full circle.  For very long distances today direct current is again used.  It minimizes resistance losses due to self-inductance.  This direct current is then converted to alternating current before being put through a transformer.   This corrects some of the misinformation constantly being spread about Edison and the pioneering days of electric power distribution.  

I haven’t seen the History Channel series and don’t intend to, but I wanted to comment on the following by Repairman:    
First though, a brief comment on what I left out under the ellipsis:  “the most amazing man of the age:”.   I haven’t thought about who I’d nominate for that position but it wouldn’t be Tesla, amazing though he undoubtedly was.  Speaking of Edison, he would be even more amazing.  There are other candidates too, but let it pass.   OK, was Edison, desperately or otherwise, trying to undermine any of Tesla’s innovations?  “Undermine” meaning some negative action against.   Well, what was going on?   Before Edison, the only electric lights were carbon arc lights.  They worked over only short distances from the power source.     These lights operated at high current / low voltage.  Edison was the first man of anyone working in the electrical field to realize that that was relevant to the problem of distributing power, and that in order to transfer power by wire over a long distance required the reverse: low current / high voltage and of course a new type of lamp that worked with it.     Compared to even geniuses like Kelvin in England he more clearly understood the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance and the consequences of Ohm’s Law regarding power.  He understood that the power loss before the current got to the device went as current squared times the wire resistance.   He invented a high voltage / low current system, which included the Edison light bulb that worked at high voltage / low current.  It was a three wire system (plus, ground, minus) and he patented it.   Now about the voltage source, the generator.  Basically a generator consists of loops of wire rotating in a magnetic field.  The result is alternating current.  You might say that alternating current is natural current.  Edison knew that such current, even at fairly low voltage, is very dangerous.  So he added a commutator to his generator to convert it to direct current.  (He also much improved existing generator design.)  His three wire system worked with either alternating or direct current.     His preference for direct current and his taking the trouble to convert to it was due to his concern for the safety of the end users.  (Most people who get electrocuted in their homes today would not have been had the current been direct.)   Enter Tesla.  He saw the value of Edison’s idea of using high voltage / low current.  If high / low is good, higher / lower is even better.  That is, you could send power over even longer distances.  He added a transformer (discovered by Faraday) right after the generator to step up the voltage and reduce the current, and generator not far from the user to reverse the change.     However, transformers (the simple ones of those days anyway) work only with alternating current, so direct current was out.   He took his idea to Westinghouse.  Westinghouse hired Tesla to design this system, but he did not contract with Edison to use his three wire system on which it was based.  Westinghouse was a thief in that regard.  I gather Tesla didn’t concern himself with the business end of it.     Edison, or rather the Edison company (by then – I think – he had lost control of his company to the financiers), sued Westinghouse and won in court.  Westinghouse then contracted to use Edison’s system.   The Edison company started a propaganda campaign against alternating current emphasizing its dangers.  It was true propaganda but in the end the economic advantage of longer distances between generator and user outweighed considerations of safety.  Also some devices (some invented by Tesla, e.g. the alternating current motor) require alternating current.     By the way, the electric distribution system has come full circle.  For very long distances today direct current is again used.  It minimizes resistance losses due to self-inductance.  This direct current is then converted to alternating current before being put through a transformer.   This corrects some of the misinformation constantly being spread about Edison and the pioneering days of electric power distribution.