FLAG DAY
Today is Flag Day. Read Edwin A. Locke's editorial, On Flag Day Celebrate America's Core Values: Reason, Rights, and Science.
Check out The Star-Spangled Banner web site.
Thursday, June 13, 2002
TERRORIST CONFERENCE IN IRAN
Read about the terrorist summit in Iran:
Iran's Next Revolution. America needs a strategy for toppling the ayatollahs. By Michael A. Ledeen.
Iran Increases Funding and Training for Suicide Bombings. By 'Ali Nouri Zadeh.
Palestinian hardline meets in Iran. By Jim Muir. Here is a quote by Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC):
"The enemy has every possible modern weapon, but our only weapon is our love of martyrdom and death. We'll never give it up until our goals are achieved."
Read Harry Binswanger's speech, America vs. Death-Worship: The Moral Meaning of the Coming War.
Read about the terrorist summit in Iran:
Iran's Next Revolution. America needs a strategy for toppling the ayatollahs. By Michael A. Ledeen.
Iran Increases Funding and Training for Suicide Bombings. By 'Ali Nouri Zadeh.
Palestinian hardline meets in Iran. By Jim Muir. Here is a quote by Ahmed Jibril, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC):
"The enemy has every possible modern weapon, but our only weapon is our love of martyrdom and death. We'll never give it up until our goals are achieved."
Read Harry Binswanger's speech, America vs. Death-Worship: The Moral Meaning of the Coming War.
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
According to Reuters, nobody at the Environmental Protection Agency told their boss about the report on "global warming"! More posts: HOT AIR, HOT AIR II and EPA.
According to Reuters, nobody at the Environmental Protection Agency told their boss about the report on "global warming"! More posts: HOT AIR, HOT AIR II and EPA.
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
"ENGINEERIST"
Steve Den Beste has a post on how he is describing himself in philosophical terms. I agree with his thoughts on Liberals and Conservatives. I call myself a radical for capitalism. I am an Objectivist. I am opposed to the Libertarian movement. I don't agree with Steve's pragmatism:
"We Engineerists are intensely pragmatic. We don't try to come up with overriding philosophies ("wealth is evil", "Government regulation is evil", "America is evil") and then judge everything based on it. Individual cases are taken as they come, and the only criterion for any given proposal is practical: will it work better than the alternatives?"
If you want to live a good life, you should guide it in a principled way. If you don't have an integrated system of ideas, i.e. philosophy, you will sooner or later get lost. You will have a mixed bag of ideas, contradicting each other.
"In the Objectivist view, moral principles are not luxuries reserved for "higher" souls or duties owed to the supernatural. They are a practical, earthly necessity to anyone concerned with self-preservation.
The only alternative to action governed by moral principle is action expressing short-range impulse. But for man, as we know, the short-range, viewed long-range, is self-destructive. This is the practical point missed by pragmatism, which tells people to judge each choice not by reference to abstract theory, but only by its results after it has been tried; which insists that today's results need not recur tomorrow; and which urges that each situation be approached "experimentally," "on its own terms." Such a philosophy amounts to the declaration: drop your mind, discard your capacity for thought, decide each case perceptually. This is precisely what man cannot do; not for long." -- Leonard Peikoff (1991) ["The Good," Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, page 218 - 219.]
For a good introduction on Objectivism, go to The Ayn Rand Institute's web site.
To "The Rational Pirate" and Glenn Reynolds: If you want to buy a T-shirt with the text "Don't Tread On Me" and the rattlesnake, check out ALH Products.
Steve Den Beste has a post on how he is describing himself in philosophical terms. I agree with his thoughts on Liberals and Conservatives. I call myself a radical for capitalism. I am an Objectivist. I am opposed to the Libertarian movement. I don't agree with Steve's pragmatism:
"We Engineerists are intensely pragmatic. We don't try to come up with overriding philosophies ("wealth is evil", "Government regulation is evil", "America is evil") and then judge everything based on it. Individual cases are taken as they come, and the only criterion for any given proposal is practical: will it work better than the alternatives?"
If you want to live a good life, you should guide it in a principled way. If you don't have an integrated system of ideas, i.e. philosophy, you will sooner or later get lost. You will have a mixed bag of ideas, contradicting each other.
"In the Objectivist view, moral principles are not luxuries reserved for "higher" souls or duties owed to the supernatural. They are a practical, earthly necessity to anyone concerned with self-preservation.
The only alternative to action governed by moral principle is action expressing short-range impulse. But for man, as we know, the short-range, viewed long-range, is self-destructive. This is the practical point missed by pragmatism, which tells people to judge each choice not by reference to abstract theory, but only by its results after it has been tried; which insists that today's results need not recur tomorrow; and which urges that each situation be approached "experimentally," "on its own terms." Such a philosophy amounts
For a good introduction on Objectivism, go to The Ayn Rand Institute's web site.
To "The Rational Pirate" and Glenn Reynolds: If you want to buy a T-shirt with the text "Don't Tread On Me" and the rattlesnake, check out ALH Products.
TIME TO COLONIZE MARS II
Read Glenn Reynolds' column, We the People of Mars.... [Via InstaPundit.] For more material on Mars, read my posts of May 25 and May 26.
Read Glenn Reynolds' column, We the People of Mars.... [Via InstaPundit.] For more material on Mars, read my posts of May 25 and May 26.
SHOULD WE BE TOLERANT?
Read Michael J. Hurd's answer to a question about tolerance towards our enemies. Here is a quote:
"If you insist, or imply as this questioner does, that one method of living life is as good as any other -- that the Moslem faith-based method is as good as a reason-based one -- then you see what starts to happen in the world. Look around you, and go to ground zero in New York, for some expansion of this point."
Read Michael J. Hurd's answer to a question about tolerance towards our enemies. Here is a quote:
"If you insist, or imply as this questioner does, that one method of living life is as good as any other -- that the Moslem faith-based method is as good as a reason-based one -- then you see what starts to happen in the world. Look around you, and go to ground zero in New York, for some expansion of this point."
SWEDEN 1 - 1 ARGENTINA
Sweden is now on its way to the second round of the World Cup. Argentina's team has to pack their bags and go home. I wonder if this event will have any impact on Argentina's economy. Read Robert Tracinski's article, Argentina's Intellectual Collapse.
Sweden is now on its way to the second round of the World Cup. Argentina's team has to pack their bags and go home. I wonder if this event will have any impact on Argentina's economy. Read Robert Tracinski's article, Argentina's Intellectual Collapse.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
BROADBAND
In order not to be classified as a "warblogger," I have included this post on high-speed Internet access! ;)
Read John Markoff's article, 2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband. Could this be the next "dot.com" success?
In order not to be classified as a "warblogger," I have included this post on high-speed Internet access! ;)
Read John Markoff's article, 2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband. Could this be the next "dot.com" success?
BUILD CASTLES IN THE AIR
On June 7, I wrote a post on the Department of Homeland Security. I found these two interesting articles:
The Department of Homeland Security is America's Maginot Line by Robert Tracinski. [Via Fredrik Norman.] Here is a quote:
"America, with the most powerful military in the world, has chosen to retreat into a bunker of expanded police powers and "homeland security" programs."
Department of Bureaucratic Security by Glenn Reynolds. [Via InstaPundit.] Here is a quote:
"Wars are won by destroying the enemy, not by playing defense. Now we've got a huge, multi-multi-billion-dollar government department dedicated to playing defense."
On June 7, I wrote a post on the Department of Homeland Security. I found these two interesting articles:
The Department of Homeland Security is America's Maginot Line by Robert Tracinski. [Via Fredrik Norman.] Here is a quote:
"America, with the most powerful military in the world, has chosen to retreat into a bunker of expanded police powers and "homeland security" programs."
Department of Bureaucratic Security by Glenn Reynolds. [Via InstaPundit.] Here is a quote:
"Wars are won by destroying the enemy, not by playing defense. Now we've got a huge, multi-multi-billion-dollar government department dedicated to playing defense."
WAR ON TERRORISM
After reading this post on InstaPundit, I thought it was time to create a new category called War on Terrorism.
After reading this post on InstaPundit, I thought it was time to create a new category called War on Terrorism.
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