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The ballot initiatives voted by Washington State voters in 2012 are the brightest light for increased liberty in the current election.Voters in Washington State approved a super-majority requirement for future tax increases: now tax increases need a 2/3 majority in the legislature,
Looked at one way, Travis Kalanick should have known he wouldn't be welcome in New York. But that's the regulatory, cronyist way of looking at things, and it's wrong.
(Our friend and supporter Marjorie Peters had an excellent Letter to the Editor published in The Brunswick News . I share it here in its entirety. Great job Marjorie! – Edward Hudgins, director of advocacy, The Atlas Society.) Expanding on his theme, “You didn’t build that,” Obama is trying to impose a burden of guilt on conservatives in particular by use of a new phrase, “economic patriotism.” This truly Orwellian double-speak carries with it a package deal of socialist concepts.
Last week, inside sources told Reuters that four of the five members of the Federal Trade Commission were in favor of an antitrust action against Google , but this week one Congressman came out in defense of Google. Rep.
In Debate Two with GOP opponent Mitt Romney, President Obama lied about the attack on the consulate in Benghazi and the murders of the ambassador and three other Americans. For nearly two weeks, the president and administration spokespersons had blamed the attack on a mob angered by an anti-Mohammad clip on Youtube before they finally admitted that it was a planned terrorist attack. Then in the debate Obama claimed that he had called it a terrorist attack all along.
Nicole Ciandella over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenges President Obama and his Republican opponent's shared preference for discussing small businesses rather than big ones. It's the big businesses, she says, and the businesses that become big, that create new opportunities for workers and consumers . So they deserve more "love" from politicians.
October 8. 2012 -- Atlas Society CEO Aaron Day will address a group of liberty supporters in New Hampshire tonight, as part of a special dinner preceding a preview of Atlas Shrugged Part 2. Other speakers include leaders from the Free State Project and New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Also slated to speak is New Hampshire Speaker of the House William O'Brien.
October 5, 2012—The Middle East again has erupted with weeks of virulent and violent anti-American and anti-Western protests. Rioters besieged the American embassy in Egypt. Similar scenes followed Yemen to Pakistan. Even Muslims in European cities vented their venom.
Does Mitt Romney even know what a free market is? It’s worth asking, if only because people watching him debate last night, and incorrectly assuming that a successful businessman must know such basic facts, may have been misled.
Would-be customers were standing in line at Peter Cimino’s taco truck in Amherst, N.Y., last month when an officer from the local buildings department showed up. The officer claimed the truck needed a permit, but Cimino denied it. So the code officer told his customers to leave .
It is sometimes suggested that success in business is an exceptionally good qualification for public office. By that standard, Michael R. Bloomberg would be one of the most qualified public officials in the country: Before becoming mayor of New York City, he built a highly successful enterprise —and its field was financial news, thus tying him to two of New York’s most important industries, finance and media.
If you don’t like the idea of antitrust enforcers making Google help its competitors , consider this: Sometimes, antitrust law results in prison terms.
Editor's Note: In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a flurry of prosecutions that cost numerous executives their jobs and a few their freedom. Roger Donway ’s monograph Rich-Hunt tells the story of Greg Reyes, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine—a miscarriage of justice wrought by ambitious prosecutors and their cheerleaders in the media. At The Atlas Society’s 2012 summer conference, where Greg Reyes spoke of his ordeal, Roger Donway explained why the backdated-options frenzy was an anti-business persecution generated out of the flimsiest excuses. What follows is an edited version of Donway’s talk.
The storming of America’s embassy in Egypt and the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya make it imperative that we understand why the Arab Spring was only the illusion of a warm breeze in the cold, dreary, pre-modern cultural darkness.
The Atlas Society offers a wealth of material for learning about Objectivism. On this page, we've collected links to web-pages and e-documents that student groups can use to explore the Objectivist world-view and hold discussions.
Representative Todd Akin, this year’s GOP candidate in the Missouri U.S. Senate race, has highlighted campaign-killing idiocies that provide valuable lessons for Republicans.
August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.” That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finished reading the story of Greg Reyes, son of a Cuban immigrant, who rose through talent, productivity, and vision to become, at 36, the CEO of Brocade Communications—a Silicon Valley company that revolutionized computer-storage technology (and whose revenues he increased twenty-fold in three years)—and then found himself
So, maybe there's no free lunch, but hey, here's a free copy: Radical for Capitalism: An Introduction to the Political Thought of Ayn Rand , by Will Thomas -- as a pdf download from Scribd.
The ordinance the Albany, N.Y., council recently passed allows city officials to impose "reasonable rules and regulations" on businesses obtaining the new cabaret licenses. Now that they've seen these "reasonable rules," people who own and work in Albany bars are protesting.
