Being free doesn’t make you happy. But freedom is necessary for happiness. People who are indifferent to freedom are not happy in the first place. People who don’t have freedom, but want it, can attain happiness in the fight for … Continue reading
People keep talking about the Tiger Woods scandal as a “teachable moment.” They debate whether or not it is, in fact, a teachable moment “for us” or whether it isn’t. My question: Why does something that some celebrity does have … Continue reading
The most important function of government — making it the only acceptable alternative to anarchy — is the protection of the individual from physical force. Governments cannot prevent people from becoming criminals, of course, and much criminal punishment comes after … Continue reading
Is America too big to fail? No. America was based on big, sound ideas. These ideas included individual rights, freedom, and private property. They included rationality in the sense of people thinking, and being responsible, for themselves. These big, sound … Continue reading
‘I love this show, this show has been my life — and I love it enough to know when it’s time to say goodbye,” said Oprah Winfrey, proving (even to atheists) that perhaps there is a God, and surely demonstrating … Continue reading
Freedom doesn’t happen just because someone else thinks it should. Look at Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Plenty of people think those countries should be free, and are even willing to use the force to back it up — but how well … Continue reading
Bringing the 9/11 plotters to New York City for an ordinary criminal trial (no different from a purse snatcher) is a shock to many, but not to myself. Why? Because long before Obama and his parasitic pimps took over the … Continue reading
If mental illness rules out the possibility of terrorism, as our President and the military he runs want us to believe — then does this mean that terrorists are not insane? I didn’t realize, until the Fort Hood shooting, that … Continue reading
Fox News interviewed the cousin of the killer at Fort Hood. The man, speaking in a calm and rational sounding voice, actually seemed to believe it when he claimed that his cousin must have been driven to do what he … Continue reading
A liberal staff member from a liberal newspaper recently replied to a column I wrote on why Obama should not have the Nobel Prize by telling me the following: “Get a life.” That’s interesting. If life is the standard of … Continue reading
Q: I noticed that the Daily Dose of Reason seems to be a mix of psychology and political commentary, as opposed to your Life’s a Beach column. I was wondering if there was a particular reason you do this as … Continue reading
It’s Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus discovered America — for the free and civilized world. You can cry “Oh, the poor Indians!!” all you want, but America was not a habitable place until Western civilization got there. Christopher Columbus led the … Continue reading