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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"
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    Birthright Citizenship

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    A History of Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court Citizenship of Native Americans  My Grandfather Boydstun was a quarter Choctaw and would have citizenship under the Dawes Act concerning Indian Territory, to which that tribe had been removed from the South in the 1830's (by three Trails of Tears for that tribe). I don't know but what my Grandfather could have been an American citizen anyway already. After all, his paleface ancestors by his name had come to VA and MD in the 1600'

    Reblogged:ESG, RIP?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    John Stossel reports that, after enough large companies lost their shirts, many are scaling back on the leftist ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) fad. He cites numerous example of businesses losing focus on their purpose -- making money by offering value -- and losing money, oddly enough:While many correctly predicted that ESG would lose its momentum once its unprofitability became evident, the above quote contains data that should alarm us: Intel is wrongly being subsidized in the nam

    A Role for Abstractionism in a Direct-Realist Foundationalism

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    A Role for Abstractionism in a Direct-Realist Foundationalism by Benjamin Bayer

    Israelo-Palestinian Conflict: 2023 Edition

    AlexL
    By AlexL,
    Breaking News -- Israel Under Attack     

    Reblogged:Revenge (for) Hurts

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    I was a neutral fan for this Super Bowl, having no connection to either city, or past allegiance to either team. That was fine to me: I expected a close, entertaining game that I could enjoy completely pressure-free. It wasn't even close, and for my money, the entertainment came mainly from seeing a defense that found a way to make Patrick Mahomes look mortal during the lopsided first half:I don't follow the NFL closely at all, and this was the only game I watched this season, so I was missing

    How to Balance Federal Budget

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    The budget deficit for fiscal year 2024 came in at 1.8 trillion dollars. Please correct my calculations if needed. How much money is spent due to corruption and waste is not something for which there can be a firm estimate. Surely there is corruption, such as payoff of officials to not interdict imports of illegal narcotics into the country. I doubt the amount of money going to corruption and waste is a significant portion of the federal deficit. Any talk about closing the deficit by rootin

    Reblogged:RFK's 'Show Me the Data' Game

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Former Vice President Mike Pence correctly states "RFK's hearings remove all doubt: He's not fit to lead a key federal health agency," in an editorial for which my only criticism is that it doesn't go far enough. While it is true that Kennedy's views about vaccines are enough alone to disqualify him, Pence makes a common, wrong concession in his argument:Does he really understand, let alone support the "good parts?" I'm not so sure. I happen to know, for example, that Kennedy advocates "sustai

    Facebook

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    I joined Facebook originally in order to get access to particulars of certain Objectivist gigs that, some years back, were being announced outside of Facebook, but to get the particulars you had to be able to get into the link to Facebook, which in those days required FB membership. I had not intended to do any socializing there. I had used my real name, and after a few months of being on there, a long-time real-life friend found me and made Friend request to me, which I accepted. Next thing you

    Objectivism in Academia

    cliveandrews
    By cliveandrews,
    How are Objectivists treated in the academic arenta? I know nothing about academic philosophy, but I would infer that Objectivists might have a hard time getting along with others in the feild, or even face persecution from their peers. Thoughts?

    Age of Electricity

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Annual amount of electrical energy produced by countries of the world is here. Leading source for generation of electric power for each US state, 2001 v 2019. Information used by NYT (10/28/20) in making these maps is from the US Energy Information Agency.

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