Healthcare is not a Right

Here’s an astounding metaphor, quoted from an essay by Leonard Peikoff:
Haircuts are free, like the air we breathe, so some people show up every day for an expensive new styling, the government pays out more and more, barbers revel in their huge new incomes, and the profession starts to grow ravenously, bald men start to [...]

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“That One”

There has been some talk about McCain’s reference to Obama as “that one over there,” (see, I’m not taking it out of context) in the LibertySphere today.
Listen.
Guys.
Wait, did I just refer to you all as GUYS??? That’s gender-offensive! Certaintly I must be a rampant sexist, and immature to boot!
Don’t you love how the spinners are [...]

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Calling the Debate: 50-50

That’s right, folks. I call it dead even.
Both got some good knocks in, not more than the other; both had opportunities to make some good points, not more than the other. I think McCain had a slight edge in energy and burned Obama a bit on healthcare, and I think Obama made McCain toe the [...]

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