Below is an interesting paragraph I jotted down a few years ago from a book called The Mind and the Brain. It’s dense but makes a really good argument against materialism. Materialism is the view that only matter exists, and thus people do not have souls (OK, I grant that no materialist would put it […]
20 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, here is the critical segment from Reagan’s famous “tear down this wall” speech:
What Science Can't Account For
This is a fantastic riff by William Lane Craig from a 1998 debate. It gets really good 1 minute and 20 seconds in. The point: Science is critically important. But it is a fallacy to think that the only beliefs that are rational are those that can be demonstrated scientifically. For many beliefs that we […]
John Mackey on "Conscious Capitalism"
From a good interview with John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods: “Before I started my business, my political philosophy was that business is evil and government is good. I think I just breathed it in with the culture. Businesses, they’re selfish because they’re trying to make money.” At age 25, John Mackey was […]
The Results on Cash for Clunkers
The Wall Street Journal summarizes the the results of the cash for clunkers program.
The Economic Stimulus Didn't Work
A good article from the Wall Street Journal. It begins: Is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 working? At the time of the act’s passage last February, this question was hotly debated. Administration economists cited Keynesian models that predicted that the $787 billion stimulus package would increase GDP by enough to create 3.6 […]
No Legislation without Participation
Patrick Lencioni has a great article over at The Simple Wisdom Project on the problems that come from the fact that members of congress often do not have to live with the consequences of the laws they pass. Universal health care is the latest example. Here’s a great quote: As it stands today, Congress is […]
The National Debt Road Trip
This is a fantastic visualization of how the deficit spending projected by Obama compares to past presidencies. Really incredible. This video converts the deficit spending since 1900 into miles per hour. Bush was going 63 mph, the fastest yet. Obama’s own projections put him at 173 mph for the next eight years. The video is […]
Marking Man's First Steps on the Moon: Why Did We Go?
Today is the anniversary of the first walk on the moon. In honor of that, here is a great segment from the fantastic book A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, summarizing Kennedy in a 1962 speech on why we were going: In the past sixteen months, as Kennedy’s vision had […]
Raising Taxes by a Certain Percentage Does Not Mean Tax Revenues Will Rise by the Same Percentage
A good analogy of this fact from the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Rangel and House Democrats are also banking on the idea that raising tax rates by 20% will raise 20% more tax revenue, but that’s like telling Wal-Mart it can raise prices by 20% and get 20% more profit. When taxes on the rich […]
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