Today is the 101st birthday of Prof Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006). His erudition, eloquence and dedicated struggle for human freedom and dignity have helped advance civilization. Here he is on Phil Donohue’s show in 1979. In this 2-minute extract,… Read More ›
Month: July 2013
Pat Condell on Free Speech–the Cornerstone of Our Civilization
Pat Condell is a hero in the true sense of the word — a warrior known for his exceptional courage and bravery. But you would not have heroes if there were no cowards. He is a heroic defender of human… Read More ›
Hauled from the archives: Bigger is Better
Bigger is Better Here I will address, as promised, the matter of why the argument — that India’s failure to develop cannot be compared with Singapore’s enviable success due to differences in size — is meaningless. It is based on… Read More ›
When Will We Learn to Distinguish Treachery from Fidelity?
I don’t know who is on who’s side. From afar, they look like cats of the same breed, although they ostensibly belong to competing political parties. Here’s Chitra Subramaniam Duella writing about “THE QUATTROCCHI GRAVY TRAIN“, July 16th:
Trending: Writing to the White House demanding visa denial to those one dislikes
It had to come to this: people running to Uncle Sam complaining that they have been teased at school by someone they did not like the looks of. Taking a cue from the 65 members of the Indian parliament (what… Read More ›
Hitler Loses it on Hearing that Modi may Become India’s PM
The day may come when Shri Narendra Modi becomes the PM of India. All of us who fear and dread — chief among them Antonia Maino & her minions such as Diggy Singh, Shashi, Sagarika, Rajdeep, Barkha — that awful… Read More ›
Hitchens: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if… Read More ›
The Internet as the Great Truth-seeking Machine
Rashomon After I watched the movie Argo, I had a one of those Rashomon moments, a realization that there is more to the story than was related to you. You may recall Rashomon (1950) introduced the master movie director Akira… Read More ›
Shantanu Bhagwat: “On Narendra Modi and the hottest place in hell”
Shantanu Bhagwat has a post at his Reclaiming India blog at The Times of India website in which he states that Indians must not stand as neutral observers in the upcoming general elections because the UPA is “an existential threat… Read More ›
Nehru in his own words
“By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim,& a Hindu only by accident of birth." - Nehru — Atanu Dey (@atanudey) July 19, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Nehru was Gandhi’s blue-eyed boy and based solely on that… Read More ›
