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Author Archives: Jim
NFL Anthem Protesters vs. Constitutional Rights
Colin Kaepernick has failed. More than a year ago, he started the anthem protests in the NFL by creating a spectacle through either sitting or taking a knee during the national anthem before the game. It is said that he … Continue reading
Posted in Political Discussions
Tagged Anthem protests, due process of law, Kaepernick, NFL, police shootings
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The Rights of Bastards Reconsidered, On Govt Compelling a Man to Pay Child Support
Previously, years ago, I had posted about the propriety of the government forcing a man to pay child support with an emphasis on bastard children. At that time, I emphasized that the child had a right to support from its … Continue reading
Thoughts on the Political Violence in Charlottesville
The recent political violence in Charlottesville has left me angry and sad. The ideas inspiring the violence are symptomatic of a concerning shift in our culture not just in the US but throughout the West. The loss of life and … Continue reading
Posted in Political Discussions
Tagged Alt-Right, Antifa, Charlottesville, DIM Hypothesis, Identitarians, racism, SJWs, terrorism
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Stupid Teachers – Our Synonym Problem
Douglas R. Burgess Jr. authored an op-ed in the New York Times , which stated that piracy is by definition terrorism. Reading it, I wanted to SCREAM! It reflected one of the critical problems with fighting terrorism, the inability that … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged definitions, differentia, education, genus, objective, Pragmatism, progressive, public schools, teachers, terrorism, vocabulary
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Deflating the Student Loan Bubble with Better Risk Management
The student loan market is broken again: too much student debt, too many defaults, and large write-offs pending as a result of income contingent repayment. Not that it was ever fixed, but it’s gonna blow again to hemorrhage real costs … Continue reading
Reply to Dishonest @NeilParille re: @YaronBrook on Immigration
Recently, Neil Parille started replying to tweets I had made, in which Parille criticized Yaron Brook regarding immigration. Given the number of his comments, it started to seem that I was being trolled, but it turns out that Parille has … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Political Discussions
Tagged Ed Powell, honesty, immigration, Neil Parille, Sense of Life Objectivists, Yaron Brook
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The Objectivist Conference (OCON) and Ideas for Living Life on Earth
In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the world’s hidden producers gathered for one month each summer and in part they traded the intellectual products that they had produced during the prior year. Similarly, Objectivists (those who study and apply Ayn … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, History, Political Discussions
Tagged Amesh Adalja, Andrew Berstein, Andrew Lewis, Atheism, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Capitalism, Elan Journo, Eric Daniels, Gregory Salmieri, health care, Jihad, laissez-faire capitalism, objective law, Objectivism, OCON, patents, Peter Schwartz, Rituparna Basu, Robert Mayhew, Tara Smith, vaccination
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