America is paradise for black people. Nowhere else on earth do blacks have more freedom, money, health, security, cultural richness, social respect, and personal happiness.

"Always look on the bright side of death/Just before you draw your terminal breath." -Monty Python's Life of Brian

The Fascists of the Left (FOTLs, pronounced “Fottles” and spelled that way henceforth) have won. Free speech in New Zealand is dead. It has been throttled by Fottles.

By Olivia Pierson
www.oliviapierson.org/blog/the...

Cassie Jaye’s transformation from self-identifying as a feminist to a girl who no longer likes to call herself one is as honest a metamorphosis as I’ve ever seen. And here was I thinking millennials have an aversion to thought.

George Reisman's wife, Edith Packer, passed away recently.

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Eulogy

Delivered at the O’Connor Mortuary in Laguna Hills, California on February 9th 2018

I'll be giving my own take on the Jones brouhaha and National Business Review's disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, evil, beyond-contemptible cowardice for Muriel Newman's NZCPR-Weekly over the next few days (and publishing it here of course). Meantime, SOLOists can strike a blow for free speech by signing this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/rt-ho...

Do you remember how far Ayn Rand predicted the New Left would go?

Summer Pops: Music from the Movies
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hamish McKeich
Michael Fowler Centre, February 9

The NZSO seemed a few players short of an orchestra last Friday night. Maybe some of the musicians were still on summer break; maybe it was felt that the relatively light fare didn't require a full muster. The enthusiastic, if not full, house didn't seem to mind in the least.

Stefan Hickson was freshening up at the health spa and about to leave. He had just showered and dressed, and felt great. Hickson very much believed in self-improvement.

"Namaste, Stef!"

The song “When Matter Touches Antimatter” will be performed in Minneapolis and in Chicago by two different opera companies, and, I assume, recordings will be available eventually.

My son showed me last night - the take off - and as posted here the landing.

I was utterly jubilant - hopeful - joyous and WANTED TO BE PART OF IT.

Galt bless South Africans!

Amy Peikoff on Twitter:

NZSO National Youth Orchestra
Music by Beethoven, Elgar and Dvorak.
Conducted by Guy Noble, with Matthias Balzat (cello).
Michael Fowler Centre, February 3.

Preposterously precocious and horrendously handsome cellist Matthias Balzat comprehensively stole the show the other night at the Michael Fowler Centre.

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan!

From the archives:

Was Ayn Rand Wrong on Reagan?
By Edward Hudgins

February 6, 2017 -- Hardcore anti-Communist Ayn Rand was, to the surprise of many who did not live through those days, not a fan of hardcore anti-Communist Ronald Reagan.

"Pretty much as close to technically perfect as you can be."

Hot contemporary tenor Joseph Calleja describes one of his most illustrious predecessors, Mario Lanza, in this way in the 2017 Screenbound Pictures documentary, Mario Lanza: The Best of Everything.

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

America never was 'a nation of immigrants.'
Neither was New Zealand, nor Australia, nor any other Western nation.

We are nations of citizens - and citizens flourish under laws which are designed to preserve our natural rights as a free people.

Just heard that a song of mine will be performed on March 11 in Minneapolis! (The song was premiered in Austin and is slated for a Chicago performance.)

Rodney,

Ed wrote this yesterday - very good piece about his take on Trump's magnificent SOTU speech.

"The Democratic side of the house played dead."

Here are 8 recently published books I plan on reading this year.

1. Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life.

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

If ever there lived a personification of the worst aspects of our post-modern culture, it is genderqueer Professor of Physics, A.W Peet, who left NZ’s shores and now thankfully resides in Toronto. Apologies O Canada! (Though you probably deserve it.)

By Olivia Pierson
http://www.oliviapierson.org/b...

One could be forgiven for nearly falling off the chair with laughter after reading NZ media outlet 'Stuff's' sappy little identity-politics piece by Ms. Mahvash Ali, titled, "I grew up under a pregnant prime minister; she was a role model and an inspiration."

I corrected a fallacious statement on Objectivist morality by Obleftivist leader Yaron Brook in his facebook page comment section.

He says:

Notwithstanding my bitter disagreement with Amy Peikoff over her slavish support for Obleftivism, ARISIS and Bwook the Cwook, I was very impressed by Amy's acquittal of herself on Tucker Carlson Tonight today. Of course, I'd love to eliminate her juvenile quacking and upward-inflecting, but her sentiments were magnificent.

Murder of the "Good" due to Democracy, Immigrants etc -- in as backward country as India because the basic principles involved are the same

South Korea and Japan are financially rich and scientifically advanced nations. So are Germany, Britain, France, and many others in Europe.

After Trump called five news outlets “the enemy of the American people” Senator Jeff Flake delivered an anti-Trump speech Wednesday January 17.

Today the Ayn Rand Institute tweeted:

Currently, Yaron Brook is chairman of the board of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). He recently stepped down as ARI's CEO, who is now Jim Brown. Despite this change, Brook still remains the public face of ARI and is its most well-known and traveled figure.