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The Great Pyramids of China

January 21st, 2011

By Brianna Aubin The last time I was in Chicago, I had some time to kill before my appointment.  So I decided to go to the nearby John Hancock building in order to ride up to the observatory there and view the city.  For those of you who have never visited, Chicago is quite beautiful, [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: bubble, Chicago, China, free economy, pyramids, real estate, skyscrapers
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

In Which I Get a Question Answered on PJTV

January 11th, 2011

By Brianna Aubin A couple of weeks ago, the Front Page did a segment on how China might well be one huge investment bubble right now, with currency inflation, bad debt on the government books, and a property bubble larger than the one we had in the U.S.  So I commented: Thanks for going into what [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: bonds, China, currency, debt, financial, inflation, markets, PJTV, U.S.
Categories: Economics, Media, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Cargo Cult Economics

December 18th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Pretend that you are on a desert island with six other people.  One guy hunts, another fishes, a third collects firewood, the fourth hauls water, the fifth gathers fruits and vegetables, the sixth builds huts, and you … eat.  Yes, that’s right.  Your job is eating.  You pick up seashells off the beach, and [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: cargo cult, Federal Reserve, Keynesian, money, productivity, value
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (12) | Home

The Nazi of Nanking

December 9th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last spring, I read a book called The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.  Iris was the descendant of Chinese immigrants; her parents were actually professors at my university, so she grew up here in Chambana.  Her grandparents had managed to flee Nanking before it had been taken by the Japanese; it [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Iris Chang, Japan, Japanese Army, murder, Muslim, Nanking, Nazi, Rabe, rape
Categories: Arts, History, Life, Politics | Comments (7) | Home

Limited By What?

November 13th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “We want limited government!” The cries can be heard everywhere, from signs at the smallest Tea Party protests to speeches given by the most prominent conservatives and Republicans.  But the cry for limited government begs the question: limited by what?  And when it comes to the answer to that question, it seems that nobody’s [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Constitution, liberty, limited government, natural law, property, rights
Categories: Law, Politics | Comments (25) | Home

Brother, You Ain’t My Keeper!

October 28th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last week, Pres. Obama gave a speech in Portland where he declared, yet again, that he is his “brother’s keeper.” …we believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility. We believe in a country that prizes innovation and entrepreneurship. But we also believe in a country where we look after [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: brother's keeper, charity, coercion, election, left, leftist, Obama, taxes
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (18) | Home

Calling Juan Williams “Irrational” Is Ignoring Reality

October 26th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin This letter to the editor was sent in to the Daily Illini in response to their editorial on Juan Williams getting fired from NPR: Saying that it is irrational for Mr. Williams to worry that a co-passenger on a plane who visibly identifies as Muslim might be an Islamist plotting a terrorist attack is like [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Daily Illini, Fox News, islamist, Juan Williams, Muslim, NPR, terrorism
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

Random Thoughts

October 16th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin I’ve always found it ironic that although the Left is quite enthusiastic about helping small business, the middle class, and the pursuit of the American dream, they then immediately go on to punish any of those small businessmen or middle class members who actually manage to attain the American dream by becoming [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: business, conservatives, Democrats, government, leftists, Republicans
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Obama Calls For Repeal of Laws of Thermodynamics

October 15th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last night President Obama, with the full backing of the Democratic Party, shocked the nation by calling for a repeal of the Laws of Thermodynamics, which he claims have been “nothing but an impediment to my efforts to get this country out of the recession.” When asked why he felt it necessary [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: economy, energy, Laws of Thermodynamics, poverty, repeal, satire
Categories: Economics, Politics, Science | Comments (3) | Home

An Evening With Daniel Pipes

October 14th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Does the War on Terror still exist?  What is the status of that war?  Exactly who and what are we fighting?  Our government officials frame the debate in very general terms, with the DOD calling the fight an “overseas contingency operation,” and Napolitano infamously referring to the problem of terrorism as a [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: communism, fascism, Islam, islamist, Pipes, terrorism, war on terror
Categories: History, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

The Truth Will Get You Jailed

October 12th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “The truth will set you free?”  Don’t be ridiculous, that’s only a dark notion from our distant past!  In our modern, enlightened age, we know that questions of truth are unimportant, compared to whether that truth is offensive or not. Sounds outlandish?  Crazy?  Or maybe secretly deep down somewhere you like it, but [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: freedom of speech, Geert Wilders, immigration, Islam, Netherlands, trial
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (11) | Home

The True Face of the Eco-Fascists

October 9th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last weekend, an environmentalist group wanted to stir up some enthusiasm for a program called 10:10, the objective of which is to reduce one’s “carbon footprint” by 10% by the end of 2010.  To do so, they made a movie in which those who were less than enthusiastic about this objective were [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: 10:10, children, environment, environmentalist, green, killing, video, violence
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (9) | Home

A Child in the Islamic Republic

October 4th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last night, I attended a speech given by Tabby Davoodi, an Iranian Jew whose family escaped from the Islamic Republic in 1988 and who was invited to speak at the University of Illinois about the Iranian regime and her experiences growing up there before she and her family fled to America. “I’m [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, islamic, Israel, revolution, Tabby Davoodi, war
Categories: Education, History, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

The Profitability of Morality

September 22nd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin They say that morality is unprofitable, and profitability immoral.  But is it actually true?  Look at the story of two banks, one which adhered to an inflexible moral code and another which chased the almighty dollar, and check your premises for yourself: One bank, chaired by an individual with a deep moral code, [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, BB&T, John Allison, moral, morality, profit, subprime, TARP, values
Categories: Economics, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

The Lesson of Hank Rearden

September 15th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged, the character Hank Rearden was a supremely moral man whose faults sprang from his conflicts with the destructive moral code of his enemies, and an inability to understand the nature and purpose of those enemies.  In Atlas, Rand literally cast the enemies of Rearden (and the other heroes of the novel) as [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Ayn Rand, death, Islam, Israel, jihad, Life, morality, Palestinian, Rearden
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (14) | Home

Random Thoughts

August 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin As many of you may have noticed, I haven’t been around much this last week.  This is because, as I told Tom, I was taking a couple of weeks off in order to give myself some time to cool off, regroup, and actually do some work with my thesis and my day [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Arab, Arizona, climate, immigration, Israeli, regulation, socialism, taxes
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (11) | Home

America Is the Problem

July 17th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin You know how my earlier article was about how it was all the Tea Party’s fault that Obama’s presidency wasn’t going to plan?  Well, forget that idea.  Turns out the problem is bigger than that.  The problem isn’t just the Tea Parties.  The problem is the whole darn country. According to Bill [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: failure, gratitude, Hayek, impatience, Obama, Rand, spoiled, Tea Party
Categories: Politics | Comments (21) | Home

Sometimes You Die Anyway

July 14th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” — Sir Winston Churchill In yet another lesson why appeasement is futile, Molly Norris, the Seattle cartoonist who accidentally started the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” phenomenon, just got marked for death in an Al-Qaeda magazine by Islamic extremist [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: al-Awlaki, appeasement, death, Draw Mohammed Day, fatwa, terrorism
Categories: News, Politics | Comments (10) | Home

Obama’s Accomplishments

July 8th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin To my mind there are two different kinds of Leftists in the world.  One type wants the same things that conservatives and libertarians do (peace, freedom, the equality of all peoples under the law, etc.); they just don’t realize that liberal policies are seldom if ever the correct way to go about it.  [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: Beinart, foreign policy, health care, Kagan, reform, Sotomayor, stimulus
Categories: Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Fighting Fire With Satire

July 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Collectivism at home, terrorism abroad, infighting amongst friends and bold moves by our enemies… these are dark days.  These threats are serious and as anyone here knows, I do take them seriously to the limit of my abilities. But that doesn’t mean that every once in a while, you can’t laugh at [...]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: collectivism, cultural, DBD, Israel, Latma, political, satire, terrorism
Categories: Humor, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

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