Rand Paul has put up a new video at RandPaul2010.com dispelling all the myths regarding his first name. He also discusses being a fan of Ayn Rand and a few of his favorite books.
I think it’s a great idea for Rand to release videos like these. In doing so he becomes more than just Ron Paul’s son. We get to know him as an individual rather than through his father. Hopefully these “get to know me” style videos continue.
Rand Paul is scheduled to be on the Brian and The Judge show on Fox News Radio during the 9am (Eastern) hour. He is also scheduled to be on with the Judge on Freedom Watch this afternoon at 2pm with several other freedom loving guests.
The gift agreement stipulates that WCU’s College of Business will use the money—plus another $500,000 in matching funds it hopes to obtain from the state Legislature—to create a new “BB&T Distinguished Professorship in Capitalism” and develop a program exploring “the moral and ethical foundation of capitalism,” according to the school’s Nov. 17 announcement. While the new program will encompass “all points of view,” the agreement specifically focuses on just one, “the philosophy of objectivism as portrayed by Ayn Rand in her classic novel Atlas Shrugged and in her essays,” the announcement states.
There are some who believe this is dangerous territory for colleges to tread upon saying that corporations should not have this kind of influence on what gets taught in the classroom. I believe we need more of this, not less. In essence this is free market capitalism at work.
If a college doesn’t want to abide by the stipulations accompanying any monetary gift then they can refrain from accepting the gift. According to the article some already have.
It is stories like these that give me hope that capitalism isn’t quite dead yet.
(Thanks to Tim Peck for pointing us to the article)
A new article by Liberty Hero Thomas DiLorenzo over at LRC entitled “Tales From an Academic Looney Bin” discusses the frightening reality that so-called ‘Cultural Marxists’ have infiltrated and taken over many higher-learning institutions. We’ve heard this type of thing for years, and DiLorenzo’s examples at Baltimore’s Loyola College are no exception.
…[Cultural Marxists] took over and began acting, well, like lunatics. I learned from the local media that the former academic vice president had rejected an applicant for a top job because the applicant “wasn’t black enough.” The job was academic vice president for diversity and the interviewee was an African-American man with very impressive credentials. According to news reports, this man was told that he was well qualified, but that the College preferred an African-American with somewhat darker skin.
So here was a man who had probably been discriminated against in employment during his lifetime who had reached the peak of his professional career, and was interviewing for what was probably his dream job. And he is told he wasn’t getting the job, once again, because of his skin color. And you probably thought “lunatic” was too strong a word.
This is a very entertaining article. Highly recommended. Read it here.
Ron Paul had some choice words about Alan Greenspan today on FOX Business Channel with Neil Cavuto. In a bizarre twist at the end Ron Paul reveals that he used to like “Hogan’s Heroes”. Followed by a few quotes from the interview is the interview itself.
“I don’t see any easy answers.”
Greenspan “used to know what capitalism was about.”
Allowing “the federal reserve chairman to have the power is the problem.”
“It’s a flawed system.”
“They are intellectually arrogant.”
“No one knows what the proper rate of interest is. It’s always too high or too low.”
This series will seek to explain what I’ve nicknamed the Money Matrix. We will first discuss what money really is or should be, then educate ourselves on why the current global monetary system is intrinsically flawed. As we proceed, taboo topics or not-well-understood time-bombs like the Federal Reserve, financial derivatives, and hyperinflation will be discussed. The last part of the series will seek to provide basic understandings of US big government finances such as the national debt, social security, the income tax, the trade deficit, etc. My goal is to explain this as simply as possible and how the current global monetary policy is morally wrong, so please ask any questions as probably both you and I will learn something further.
However, anything I write will just be tidbits of a greater truth, what I write will not be a substitute for thorough understanding. With that end in mind, I’ve included an online source list with comments at the end of this letter for you, the Reader, to peruse.
For your reference, this column really started with my outrage and personal search for truth concerning the morally wrong American wars of invasion or the “War on Terror,” but in a way I now believe I have been treating just a particularly egregious symptom, not the disease itself. Like Neo choosing the pill of reality, I believe I have at last come in contact with the walls of this ‘Matrix’, and having ripped a hole in it, and at long last can peek out and gaze at a reality for the first time from the outside in. I see how this Matrix has enslaved (or controlled, take your pick) all, and constrained mankind from our full potential. I see how this Matrix has enabled more wars and strife for our world, and I will now oppose it, rid of my ignorance. However, make no mistake, history is littered with battles of free men against this Matrix, and the wreckage of defeat is strewn throughout the sands of time, as well as the modern day. (To clarify the ‘Money Matrix’ idea, I believe it just consists of people and groups with their own motives, ideas, beliefs, resources, and desires, not some type of wacko conspiracy. These people (just like I) are just acting out life in their vision which may include “for the greater good of all” or for more self-centered reasons.)
At a recent Netroots Nation liberal outing, Edwin Rutsch interviewed Bob Barr to ask him if “Conservative values” and “family values” have failed. Naturally, Barr distinguished between true conservatism versus that which the charlatan in the White House is espousing:
Here is Bob Barr’s excellent speech at the Texas State Libertarian Convention. He is introduced by 2004 Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik. He covers many topics including, foreign policy, taxes, energy policy, foreign aid, and civil liberties even injecting some humor and Ayn Rand references into his speech at times.
At the risk of websites popping up all over the web touting the legend of Ron Paul as has happened with the incomparable Chuck Norris. Here are 13 things you probably don’t know, but should know, about Dr. Ron Paul. The difference here though is that these things are actually true.
I keep hearing and reading about how we “need health care for every American”. Several presidential candidates are touting this, and some have come up with a “plan” to accomplish this. As a libertarian minded individual I think this is a very dangerous path. There is an excellent fiction novel by Gen LaGreca called “Noble Vision”.
Liberty Maven
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