http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com Free Speech at Risk Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While the Obama administration's welfare statism pushes us closer to tyranny and economic collapse, the Cameron administration in Britain is executing wholesale decontrol. The latest is a radical plan to "make enormous cuts in the public sector" by "putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians . . ." To ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/07/the-british-are-coming-i-hope/ In a region of the world being suffocated by the mysticism of Islam, there stands a man of reason. In this region that longs for the darkness of ignorance, there stands a champion of education and of the Enlightenment. In a world of appeasers, there stands a man of conviction ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/07/a-phoenix-rises-in-alexandria/ "Our first business [as government planners] will be to supervise the making of fables and legends [i.e., of art], rejecting all which are unsatisfactory . . ." (From the _Republic_.) . . . In Russia A well-known museum director and a curator were both convicted "on charges of inciting religious and ethnic ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/07/plato-lives/ What, in principle, is the difference between this: "A Little Off the Top? Only if Tehran Approves" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/world/middleeast/07haircut.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=a+little+off+the+top&st=cse And this? In California, as in other states, one can cut hair, but only if the state approves -- with requirements that include: "Completed a course in barbering from a school approved by the ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/07/government-control-over-the-means-of-hair-cutting/ Here is an obviously bright and experienced psychologist at the Columbia University Medical Center -- a real-life case, though on a smaller scale of destruction, of Dr. Stadler from Atlas Shrugged. She used her clinical talents and perceptiveness to treat an inpatient at the psychiatric unit who was experiencing severe depression. ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/moral-agnosticism-kills-literally/ Without favorites, preferences, personal values, there is no "I" -- no self. And modern childhood educators know this. Their wicked desire to render a child's ego stillborn can be seen in the mania over group projects, "service" learning masquerading as education, forcing a child to bring a Valentine's Day card ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/friend-everyone/ In what has become an all-too-familiar tragedy, an American corporation is about to be penalized for being too successful. The Boston Beer Company is a "craft brewer" that produces delicious varieties of Sam Adams beer. The federal government imposes a lower excise tax per barrel on craft brewers -- those ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/chopping-down-the-tall-hops/ Not in the severity or brutality of violence, but certainly in its use of arbitrary and capricious "law" to control and punish innocent citizens. The Rwandan government has jailed a lawyer for the "crime" of "promoting genocidal ideology," i.e., for publishing opinions that "threaten the country's security." (The American law professor ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/america-is-rwanda/ The emotionalist/altruist philosophy of Europe and Africa are systematically destroying free speech. Trampling the "rights of man" and the Renaissance dedication to reason is a worship of the feelings of those who feel insulted by speech. The latest in France is a minister who was fined for making "anti-Arab" comments. ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/liberte-egalite-fraternite-not/ The essays in my book The Abolition of Antitrust amply explain why antitrust is bad economics, arbitrary and capricious, conflates economic and political power, and is unjust. And now those laws are being used as a club against productive, innocent doctors. In order to coerce doctors into Obama's socialized medicine, and ... http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/06/the-government-against-doctors-and-patients/