In John Milton's Paradise Lost [1667], Satan says: "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." But why be either hell's master or heaven's slave?

[From our archives. I wrote this piece a few months after I starting going out with my Talia. Best move of my life! We're now happily married with two beautiful two-year-old little girls. Happy Valentine's Day my Talia!]

(In honour of St. Valentine's Day - originally broadcast on the Politically Incorrect Show, February 14, 2001)

Oooo!! Today is an especially Politically Incorrect day, Valentine's Day, when your fancy may unashamedly turn to romance. The Human Wrongs Commissariat won't try to have you arrested and even the Ministry of Ugly Wimmin's Affairs will acknowledge the last word of its title.

When my mother gave me Atlas Shrugged to read when I was about aged 17 or 18 and asked me what I thought of it, when I had finished it, I remember saying to her, "There is no sense of any real love i

The possibility that Shakespeare was not the writer of the plays and sonnets attributed to his name came to my attention when I was about 16 or 17 years old.

Big Miracle is a film that was inspired by the true story of a family of three whales trapped beneath the ice in Alaska and how different indivi

Richard Prosser has enslaved himself to the will of his attackers. He has thrown himself at the feet of his antagonists requesting that they forgive him for speaking his mind.

A few hours ago US President Barack Obama chose to end his State of the Union address thus:

Sen. Rand Paul delivers the tea party's response to President Obama's 2013 State of the Union address.
Spoken like a true, nay, next president of the United States of America.

http://blurbrain.com/marines-m...

Most of you probably know that Rand had selected five passages from Nietzsche to use as mottos for the four parts of THE FOUNTAINHEAD as well as the novel itself.

“It has happened, it is real. The Police State is real" writes Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (assistant treasury secretary for Economic Policy, in the Regan Administration

“People have had enough of this bureaucracy, this madness”

Peikoff weighs in on the Connecticut school shooting. He also discusses guns. He understands that there is a sickness in our culture that is causing these mass shootings.

Last night I told Lindsay that I was going to take a break from SOLO, and in the process told him that I was a fan.

I often bash the Objectivist movement for not grasping the totalitarian nature of the Left and that it is the Left that is the PRIMARY enemy facing civilization right now. Islam is secondary.

Once there was a truly great man who lived in a wretched Dark Age. His name was Rylek; his home town was Revenna, Italy; and his years of trial and triumph the 700s.

'In a symbolic move to teach “personal responsibility,” an Idaho lawmaker has proposed requiring every high school student in the state to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.”

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan!
By Edward Hudgins

February 6, 2004 -- Today is the birthday of a great man who, tragically, doesn’t know it. Ronald Reagan is 93 years old, but Alzheimer’s disease robs him of the ability to remember his own achievements. But we can remember.

1) Promote freedom -- not democracy
2) Promote justice -- not peace
3) Cut spending -- don't cut taxes
4) Cut regulation -- don't cut taxes
5) Simplify taxes -- don't cut taxes

Since dialysis is rationed
Since dialysis is life
Since The Treaty awards more dialysis to Maori over Pakeha
Pakeha shall die that Maori may live

And the taonga bracket creep continues

For some unknown reason this video won't embed itself, but here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&...

Thought I'd share the thoughts of this Wisconsin senator who's not shy about his philosophy. - Ed Hudgins

Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand!

Ayn Rand was born on February 2, 1905, in Russia. As a young woman she came to the United States to escape the horrors of the Communist revolution.

A recent video interview of a powerful American politician influenced by Ayn Rand:

http://www.atlassociety.org/el...

Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, and Don Watkins, a fellow at ARC, have published a new op-ed titled “Three Crucial Lessons Ayn Rand Can Teach Us Today.”

Note: putting in links to all these guys is time-consuming but you can Google all of the stuff here fairly easily.

I'm going to push this because it needs to be pushed. Here is a link to a story of a black security guard who opened fire on three white girls in a SUBURB of Atlanta (note: not the ghetto).

There is a very good interview by Jamie Glazov at FrontPageMag.Com with aut

There's another Treaty Debate on tonight at Te Papa.