VOICE OF REASON

WHAT IS WESTERN CIVILIZATION? Western Civilization is not "white civilization" — though it originated by certain white people in Ancient Greece ("the West") against opposition by other white people. Western Civilization is any society that enshrines REASON as its primary motive force. In practice this means: - reality can be fully grasped by logic and science (REASON); - the primacy of the individual and their inalienable RIGHT to life, liberty, and the pursuit of their happiness (INDIVIDUALISM); - a culture of peace, progress, and prosperity resulting from a free market in production and ideas (FREEDOM).

@ConceptualJames Pure "libertarianism"—whether the right or left wing—ends up being anti-state (anarchism). This is because the evil of initiation of physical force is not a self-evident axiom, but a complex derivative based on a specific philosophy. @OPARAynRand /1

@ConceptualJames @OPARAynRand /2 THE INITIATION OF PHYSICAL FORCE AS EVIL An excerpt from chapter 8 on Virtue from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff. @OPARAynRand objectivismphilosophyaynrand.com/contents/virtu…

Way too many libertarians hate government more than they love freedom.

A scandalous conspiracy theory: that ‘neoliberalism’ imposed a cultural hegemony through rivers of money flooding in from big business. And yet: -Greenpeace UK has 10x the revenue of the IEA; -The Ford Foundation has 10x the revenue of CATO; -In the summer of 2020 capitalists gave more to BLM & DEI than they'll give in a lifetime to Objectivists. Capitalists give more to 'progressive' think tanks than to ‘neoliberals’, because ideas & culture, not pockets, move history, and for decades, the ideas winning are the ideas of capitalism's enemies.

"Foreigners commit less crimes" (which is debatable in part because of the bias inherent from statistics compiled by 'sanctuary cities') is not the proper response when an illegal migrant murders an American citizen. Condemning insecure/open border immigration policies is.

This is the simplest vision for domestic politics a leader can have. And if you talk to 10 people— normal people— nine of them will say this is what they want from their leaders. Safe neighborhoods. Clean streets. New public infrastructure that everyone takes pride in. It’s a mistake for normal politicians of any party to marginalize and demonize leaders who prioritize these objectively good outcomes— and achieve them at such swift speed. Because after a while, when things are so far gone in any nation, even the radicals and the chaos agents will yearn for a place like this, too.

INVERTED MORAL FRAMEWORK "Following the law is now portrayed as immoral. Enforcing immigration law is described as cruel. Meanwhile, obstructing law enforcement, ignoring immigration authorities, and openly defying federal law are celebrated as compassionate and moral acts."

"THE ECONOMIST" AS AN AYN RAND VILLAIN "The reporters who came to the press conference in the office of the John Galt Line were young men who had been trained to think that their job consisted of concealing from the world the nature of its events. " — from AYN RAND's ATLAS SHRUGGED Seriously, what planet are the publishers and the editors of "The Economist" living on?

@TheCriticalDri2 Wouldn't be surprised if Colbert brings Sauron back to life as an orange haired businessman. Sigh.

They really are determined to enshittify Lord of the Rings. youtu.be/uMYo4g65CMg?si…

@GGReisman 💯

I hope to soon make available to the general public recordings of my lectures in my final year of teaching at Pepperdine University. They will be offered wi thout charge and in the hope that whoever downloads them will make them available, also without charge, to as many people as possible; for example, by posting them on his website if he has one. The lectures will be accompanied by the pdf version of my main written work, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics. Here's the link to it: drive.google.com/open?id=1hUVjK…

@SenWarren Elizabeth Warren confiscating more money won't deliver any of those things, and to the extent it does it will corrupt them. The government must work for ALL Americans by treating them EQUALLY before the law. Instead statists use altruism to justify theft.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

@TheCriticalDri2 It's worse. Only 29 likes for almost a HALF A MILLION views. (What is wrong with those 29 people???)

An account with 318,000 followers, and they only managed to get one like in 5 hours. Jesus wept.

@AdamMossoff @MWChapman Might be good for @CatoInstitute to have a podcast with Professor Mossoff on this issue.

Islamic regime of Iran has been in an open war - and consistently acted on its "death to America" war policy - for 47 years. You're right: U.S. has chosen to ignore this fact, or, worse, to evade it and appease this evil regime like Obama did in 2015 Nuclear Deal - the modern version of the 1938 Munich Accord. Just because the U.S. has played "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" in response to the evil of the Islamic regime of Iran does not change the fact that the Islamic regime has itself been fighting a holy war against the U.S. and Israel - what it calls the "Great Satan" and "Little Satan," respectively - as well as against the West generally.

Iran posed no threat to the USA--none. Many of the prominent voices in support of this war of choice do not have sons or daughters in the military. Zero.

The argument for war against Iran.

DEPORTING ILLEGALS VS. INCARCERATING W/O DUE PROCESS I can understand deporting someone entering illegally, but for imprisonment, you better show the evidence to an independent judge (with the appropriate security clearances if it's a "national security issue" as DHS alleges).

@angeldadjoe @EdMorrissey Well said. Shared.

After my daughter Katie was killed by an illegal immigrant who should never have been here, I was told these policies are compassionate and moral. But when policies predictably create victims, they are not moral. They are negligence, and families like mine pay the price. Read my latest op-ed on @townhallcom: townhall.com/columnists/joe…

@Nikos_17 @aynrandcentre Also your beard is not real.

Apparently I'm a billionaire shill, and an Israeli embassy asset. But I think my checks are getting lost in the mail. So, for my handlers & anyone else who actually wants to help, I have a new website: Nikos.org Pass it to your favorite oligarch, or Mossad agent.

"YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD. It's not possible. All you can do is try to make your own world and then invite other people to be a part of it." — GEORGE LUCAS

SOME OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM MY INTERVIEW WITH JOE KENT. I decided to provide this summary because the media have either ignored the interview or focused on more trivial bits of the interview without reporting on some of Kent's astonishing statements and misdirection. You can decide for yourself. 1. I pressed Joe Kent on widespread allegations from multiple sources and in multiple news outlets about his leaking of classified information and an investigation that started well before he resigned. He denied leaking classified or confidential information to anyone at any time and said he was unaware of an investigation. 2. Kent denied leaking Charlie Kirk's group texts to Candice Owens, which were given to him in confidence by Andrew Kolvet, despite Kolvet implying otherwise. Kolvet issued his own video stating Kent suggested Kovet release the texts to the public, which he refused to do. Soon thereafter, Owens released them and has obsessively used the texts to suggest Israel assassinated Charlie. 3. Kent accused Israel of starting the 12-day war against Iran and our subsequent bombing of the Iranian nuclear sites. I know for a fact that Israel did not launch that operation without the go-ahead by President Trump. Furthermore, Israel did not force the President to bomb the nuclear sites. President Trump knew exactly what he was doing and made the decision after consulting with his civilian and military advisers. 4. Kent insisted that Israel was going to attack Iran several weeks ago and, again, forced President Trump to launch our current military campaign (in coordination with Israel) against Iran. The President, Marco Rubio, John Radcliffe, and others, all deny it. 5. He insisted that Khamenei wanted a peace deal and had issued a fatwa years ago declaring that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon. I knew this was as absurd argument and pressed Kent. The President's envoys also contradicted this by the facts, as have others, as there are obvious and plentiful facts of Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon, manufacture and accumulation of nuclear material, its violation of nuclear agreements, and its clandestine activities surrounding the entire decades' long project. 6. I mentioned Iran had lied about the reach of its ballistic missiles, to include most of Europe, to which Kent said nothing. 7. Kent's obsession with Israel as the aggressor against Iran was apparent throughout the interview. He repeatedly portrayed Iran as the victim, ignoring Iran's myriad acts of terrorism and its establishing, funding, training, and arming of Hezbollah and Hamas, among other things. 8. Kent repeatedly accused Israel of controlling President Trump's decisions respecting Iran, ignoring my repeated mentioned of the myriad examples of Iran's 47-years of acts of terrorism and war against our country, embassies, military installations, military personnel, and assassination attempts against the President and other top administration officials. 9. Kent ignored the repeated declarations by the President that he would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and repeatedly insisted that Iran was not close to making a nuclear weapon, in direct contradiction of Iran's own representations to Special Envoys Witkoff and Kushner in the final rounds of negotiations before the President ordered the current military actions, as well as CIA Director Radcliffe's sworn testimony and the statements of others in the know. 10. When I asked Kent to name the 18-intelligence agencies that he claims unanimously concluded Iran was not close to having a nuclear weapon, he did not. Of course, the President makes the final decision based on all the information provided to him, including not only intelligence information but information from other sources as well, and other circumstances. Nonetheless, Kent's assertion cannot be verified. 11. One of the most preposterous and pernicious of Kent's views was his insinuation that Israel may have been behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which he declared during his interview with Tucker Carlson. I pressed him hard on this. He tried to adjust his insinuation to suggest there could have been a foreign actor but that was clearly an equivocation. He also claimed he could not provide specifics as he could not reveal them, or the information was classified or whatever. But he insisted it needed to be pursued. Obviously, he has no information to support any of it. It was a blatant antisemitic trope, to go along with his other obsessions with Israel. 11. I asked Kent about the timing of his resignation and the provocative claims in his letter, as well as his allegations against Israel and supposed Israeli lobbyists and their claimed influence on the President (convincing him to go to war). He responded with generalities, talked about a media echo chamber, and repeated his charge that the President essentially was not making his own decisions. He also said he did not issue his letter at the outbreak of the war because he had hoped the President would quickly reverse course. Clearly, his resignation, letter, and the timing was intended for media consumption and to undermine the President and, he hoped, delegitimize the President's decisions, which Kent knew would be used by the media, the Democrats, the Woke Reich, and others against the President and his decisions. There was much more. You can listen for yourself here:

Truth be told I wince too when I see those ‘I’m glad he’s dead’ posts. But no one ever tried to destroy my presidency, bankrupt me or jail me based on total lies. People need to understand the magnitude of what Mueller was trying to do - what he was involved in.