A PROFESSOR of mine who is considered an authority in Taxation predicted nearly a year ago in our class that 
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband might suffer the fate of Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and her mistress if her administration continued to push for Constitutional reform. My professor was simply reacting to the annoying and disgraceful attempts of Mrs. Arroyo and her bribed allies in Congress in trying to change, or desecrate, the Philippine Constitution to establish a parliamentary government.
Known for his cool jokes, my professor, who purportedly loves sabong (cockfight), agogo or club houses and Ginebra San Miguel (a local gin), told our class that considering the profiles of the possible candidates for the 2010 presidential elections, the now declining power and influence of the stubborn (and spoiled) diminutive president would not be enough to quell a possible coup or political chaos that would fall upon her if she insisted on her ambition to become the first prime minister after dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
To back his claim, my professor described the possible presidential contenders, which include Senators Mar Roxas and Manny Villar. He said that these politicians who are both billionaires and who can no longer wait for their turn to be the next chief executive of the land would use everything in their power and wealth to oust the incumbent president whom most people in this country believed she stole the presidency. read more…
TODAY, June 4, is the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre. Many of us only became aware of this 
monstrous event in history because of Internet and international media organizations whose stories remind us of this dark past of Communist China.
In 1989, students from Peking University embarked on peaceful protests weeks before June 4. Teachers, peasants and people from all walks of life later joined this popular student demonstration branded by Communist leaders as “counter revolutionary” and “traitorous protest.” The question that still remains unanswered is: Did the student leaders plan to overthrow their communist government?
A study of Chinese history would reveal that the late 1980s saw unmanageable economic crisis, high inflation, massive unemployment, corruption in the government, among others. In China, education is simply synonymous to mass indoctrination, wherein books, lesson plans and everything that is to be taught to students were planned and programmed by China’s presidium, or the highest governing body of the communist state.
It is my belief that these students, who have never encountered the concept of individual rights, did not seek to overthrow their government. The Communist leaders’ accusation of “counter-revolutionary” was only made to justify the government crackdown on protesters. Who would replace the government had they really planned to oust their ruthless communist leaders? The student leaders who were brainwashed since age three with the ideals of communism and collectivist-altruist gospels of Karl Marx and Mao Zedong? This is preposterous! read more…
IS free-market capitalism already dead? With the enduring global financial crunch that recently triggered massive
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government intervention, most people would say “yes.” But for modern-day Objectivists inspired by Ayn Rand, a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher who died in 1982, free-market capitalism never exists in any country in the world— not today and even in the last half-a-century.
In her magnum opus entitled Atlas Shrugged, a 1,200-page book published in 1957 and now Amazon’s number 1 bestseller, Ayn Rand clearly delineated the difference between free-market capitalism and statism. The book, which centers on the striking question— “Who is John Galt,” tells what happens in case of massive government intervention.
John Galt, one of the heroes of Atlas who invented a great motor that generates electricity out of static energy, vowed to drain the brains of the world by leading an unusual strike after the government issued regulatory laws that not only choke business, but also disregard individual liberties. For 12 years, a number of great industrialists and business tycoons disappeared after being recruited by John Galt and his two best friends, Francisco D’Anconia, an heir to a great wealth, and Ragnar Danneskjöld, the antithesis of Robinhood.
Sales of Atlas peaked during the first four months of 2009, making it the most read book in the US today. People at Ayn Rand Institute credited this surge in the sales of Atlas to Washington, which issued socialist economic policies that include bail-out plans and stimulus packages to save financially troubled banks and auto companies at the expense of American taxpayers. Amid the global economic crunch, everybody seems interested in getting a copy of Atlas.
Most people see parallelism between the events in Atlas and the current global financial turmoil that severely hit developed countries like the US, Great Britain, France, Australia, Germany, among others.
So what happens in case of excessive government regulation? The answer is clearly illustrated in Atlas—market socialism would lead to the exodus of real capitalists who cherish individual rights and freedom from economic read more…
Every individual must protect and defend capitalism if he is to live and survive in a society that respects individual rights, cherishes human ability, and demands the best in everyone.
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A case study of the biggest coffee store in the globe.
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The rights of the Native American in the modern world.
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A case study of ESL learners in Saudi Arabia.
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