The Reverend Prozac

Meet Sofia Nersesyan. She is only 10 years old. Yet she has already raised over $360,000 for Ukraine’s Armed Forces through more than 350 charity concerts. She chose to use her voice and talent to help save the lives of Ukrainian defenders. This is the heart of Ukraine.

Every social system is based, explicitly or implicitly, on some theory of ethics. The tribal notion of "the common good" has served as the moral justification of most social systems - and of all tyrannies - in history. The degree of a society's enslavement or freedom corresponded to the degree to which that tribals slogan was invoked of ignored. -Ayn Rand (Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Ch. 1; p. 11, Kindle ed.) Bust by Sandra J. Shaw

I speak Spanish and can tell you this is a very malicious mistranslation. He’s not advocating polluting rivers. He’s describing a scenario to demonstrate why a company can be incentivized to pollute a river because there is no immediate economic cost to doing so (this is what he means by “where is the harm?”—literally, how can the harm be located and measured). He then explains how this changes if property rights for the river are clearly defined and free market pricing changes water from being priced at $0 to being treated like a scare resource. He ends by describing a free market solution to polluting. This “translation” is akin to you making an argument describing a hypothetical person’s incentives by saying: “A psychopath can act without guilt. ‘I live by my own rules’ because why not, he’s better than everyone” and some rando claims “Did you hear that? He said you shouldn’t feel guilty for committing murder because you’re better than everyone!”

I was a very little girl when I left my grandmother’s home in Senegal to join my parents in Germany. They had gone there a few years earlier as economic migrants, looking for a better life. By then, they were settled and doing okay, so it was safe for me to join them. Before I left, Grandma told me: “They may have a different skin color than you, but they have human skin. You are human too. Anything they can do, you can do as well, if not better.” That prepared me for life far better than being taught to see myself as a victim and blame everyone else.

I can’t believe I have to write this. russia destroyed a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities in Ukraine. A place where children were supposed to receive care, learn, and recover. Now it’s ashes. Just NO WORDS

shameful! China’s campaign against Dr. Gyal Lo now extends to Canada, as he continues exposing the alleged indoctrination and forced assimilation of Tibetan children through Beijing’s boarding school system. Xi is conducting a witch hunt against all who stand against his idea.

Why is this splendid, brave man not being protected

Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century. This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.

Pol Pot. This piece of shit killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979, somewhere between 25 and 33 percent of the entire population. He did this by applying an ideology to its logical conclusion. Ideology always has a conclusion; socialism's conclusion is death. The Khmer Rouge abolished money in 1975. Completely. Banks closed. Markets dissolved. Currency became contraband. They then abolished private property, forcibly relocated urban populations to collective farms, and set central planners the task of organizing rice production for the entire nation. The result was predictable: mass starvation beside the rice fields. Planners cannot coordinate production without prices. Prices require private property and voluntary exchange. Pol Pot studied in Paris during the 1950s, absorbing French Communist Party doctrine and Maoist agrarianism. Western universities provided the intellectual scaffolding for the killing fields. Coercion requires enforcers, tribunals, and eventually mass graves; Cambodia's are at Choeung Ek. Every collectivist experiment reaches this same point, because central planners cannot solve what free exchange solves automatically every second of every day.

Total Domination of Capitalism! To be a capitalist means to be a humanist and a moralist!