Joshua Lipana

Joshua Lipana


  • May 16, 2012

    Contrary to Hollande, France Should Lower Taxes and Abolish the Minimum Wage

    Socialist Francois Hollande's assumption of the French presidency is dreadful. Hollande, among other things, has promised to raise taxes on the rich and voiced support for an increase in the minimum wage. Both policies are a recipe for disaster. 1. A...

  • April 22, 2012

    2 Insightful Pro-Industrial Quotes for Earth Day

    Since today is Earth Day, here are a couple of uplifting quotes you can print out and post on your fridge. "Environmentalists think living in a cave, living in a mud hut-living in a backward way-is acceptable. Well, I don't think poverty is accepta...

  • November 4, 2011

    Islamist terror a big political issue in the Philippines

    The president of the Philippines is facing political blowback for his failure to retaliate agianst Muslim terrorists. A few weeks ago, during a ceasefire, Islamic secessionists massacred 13 Filipino soldiers in an ambush,  captured 6 others and ...

  • October 19, 2011

    Islamists Kill 13 Filipino Soldiers

    The Moro Islamic Liberation Front recently killed 13 Filipino soldiers in the Philippine province of Basilan. The Filipino "troops were operating based on information on the presence of an armed group, possibly with kidnap victims," said Lt. Col. Ran...

  • October 14, 2011

    Hassling Its Own Citizens

    Fox News reports that police were called because a man in a mall "took photos of his 4-year-old daughter, Hazel, eating ice cream at Braehead shopping center." Nothing suspicious was happening besides the photo taking, it was just a father savoring s...

  • September 22, 2011

    An Interview with John David Lewis, Author of Nothing Less Than Victory

    (Dr. John David Lewis is a visiting associate professor in the philosophy, politics, and economics program at Duke University, a contributing editor of The Objective Standard, and the author of the book Nothing Less Than Victory: Decisive Wars and th...

  • September 12, 2011

    Self-Abnegation and the War Effort

    Dr. John David Lewis, author of Nothing Less Than Victory, recently wrote an excellent article entitled "9/11 Ten Years Later: The Fruits of the Philosophy of Self-Abnegation" in the latest issue of The Objective Standard. Excerpt: Histor...

  • September 10, 2011

    Mugabe Regime Demands More Socialism

    Robert Mugabe's regime is currently pursuing more of the same poison that drove Zimbabwe's economy into the ground. As the Wall Street Journal reports: Multinationals in Zimbabwe have... to submit new plans for handing over majority control in local...

  • July 27, 2011

    No Van Jones, it is You Versus the American Dream

    Van Jones is claiming in the Huffington Post that he and his leftist cohorts are trying to save the American Dream from the Tea Party. It is incredible that this communist has the guts to claim such a thing while leftist policies continue to wreak ha...

  • July 4, 2011

    ObamaCare: The Antithesis of the Founders' vision

    Matt Sissel, an Iraq war veteran, is suing the federal government over the individual mandate in ObamaCare. His lawyer Paul J. Beard the 2nd, recently wrote an article in The Objective Standard laying out the legal arguments against the mandate. Atty...

  • June 23, 2011

    Ex-CIA Spy: Obama Administration is delusional, it's weak, and it's confused.

    Ex-CIA spy and author of A Time to Betray Reza Kahlili, recently had an excellent interview in The Objective Standard with Craig Biddle. Kahlili -- being that he once was embedded in Iran's Revolutionary Guard -- provided a treasure trove of informat...

  • May 21, 2011

    Why Israel cannot trade land for peace

    President Obama's call for Israel's return to 1967 boarders is an abomination. As Dr. Leonard Peikoff once wrote: "Land for peace" is a repugnant formula for Israel's self-immolation. The right of a civilized nation to self-defense against ...

  • May 20, 2011

    Communist Cuba's War on Entrepreneurship

    A report by Mary Murray in msnbc.com about "underground entrepreneurs" in Cuba shines some light into the perversions that go on under a socialist economy. "Orlando," one of the entrepreneurs, has been operating for years with the...

  • April 7, 2011

    America Cannot 'Afford' President Obama's Policies

    President Obama is intent on making the GOP compromise with his policies on the budget, and his rationale is that a shutdown would be terrible for the economy. As Reuters reports: "President Barack Obama Tuesday warned that the U.S. economy cou...

  • April 2, 2011

    Republicans Need to Get Rid of Collectivism

    Investors Business Daily recently published an op-ed that captures why millions of Americans who brought the Republicans back to power are getting impatient. Excerpt:"Congressional negotiators have trumpeted a "breakthrough...

  • March 29, 2011

    Tim Wu: The Man Who is Destroying the Tech Industry

    Tim Wu, the coiner of the term "network neutrality", and a senior adviser to the FTC, has an interesting solution to solve the non-existent problems plaguing the tech industry. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: "In the clas...

  • March 22, 2011

    Save Education, Privatize Government Schools

    There is an injustice going on in America. Millions of children in government schools are suffering under mediocre teachers and sub-standard facilities. The more these government schools fail, the more the government throws taxpayer money at the...

  • March 15, 2011

    The U.S Should Get Rid of Gaddafi

    The known extent Gaddafi plays in world terrorism already warrants U.S action against him. But to further add upon the reasons why the world should be rid of him, officials from the Gaddafi regime that have recently defected have said that Gaddafi di...

  • January 7, 2011

    Sam Harris Versus the Self-Made Man

    Sam Harris recently published an article in The Huffington Post entitled "A New Year's Resolution for the Rich" in it, he says:"...devotees of self-reliance rail against those who would receive entitlements of various sorts -...

  • December 7, 2010

    Arab fears of Iran fall on deaf ears in the US

    The WikiLeaks fiasco has recently revealed that even the anti-semitic Islamic countries in the Middle East are supportive of a military strike against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran's growing strength and quest for the nuclear bomb has the en...

  • November 22, 2010

    'The Nation': Patriotic Republicans should support 91% tax rate

    There's something about the idea of man having a right to the fruits of their labour that some people  just really really hate. These same people also have a knack for ignoring that fact intentionally whenever it should clearly be the bigges...

  • November 19, 2010

    Boehner Makes His First Move to Repeal ObamaCare

    And the chains are experiencing stress. A new attack on ObamaCare is coming from the inside of Capitol Hill. As abcnews.com reports:Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner, R-Ohio, filed an amicus brief Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of...

  • November 17, 2010

    Has Canada Become More Pro-Israel than the United States?

    It's an odd time we're living in. Canada, the semi-socialist state may have just taken over the U.S as being the biggest supporter of Israel, morally speakingThe Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his subordinates have taken a c...

  • November 1, 2010

    UN environmental treaty so bad even US refuses to sign

    A little bit of news that might slip unseen because of the current upcoming elections. The Eco-Fascists in the U.N have experienced another win, as reported by channelnewsasia.com : "A historic treaty to protect the world's forests, coral ree...

  • October 24, 2010

    Democrats Target WWE Fans

    The Democrats are out to destroy another productive enterprise. The World Wrestling Entertainment company has been forced to launch a campaign called Stand up for WWE in light of recent attacks coming from Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blum...

  • October 15, 2010

    Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar Walk out on The Truth

    In another clear example of what happens when Lefties encounter the truth, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg upon being told by Bill O'Reilly that "Muslims killed us on 9/11" walked out while on The View. Actually they didn't just wal...

  • October 6, 2010

    Ed Schultz Fights Reality, Claims Leftist Cluster Equals Beck's Rally

    Leftists have many enemies. Big Business, Conservative Radio, "The Right Wing Conspiracy." But none so much as their most consistent enemy, Reality. Despite the Objective evidence that Glenn Beck's rally was far larger than the ma...

  • October 3, 2010

    Intelligence Reports: Bin Laden Will Strike in Europe, U.S to Issue Travel Warnings

    Since no other group has done more to undermine the security of the West than they, it's fitting that the Leftist rally in DC would coincide with the Obama administration's decision that a travel warning for a continent where Western Civilization sta...

  • September 30, 2010

    More class warfare nonsense from Summers' possible replacement

    Class Warfare  might be getting a more empowered champion in the White House. Laura Tyson, a possible replacement for Larry Summers as the director of the National Economic Council, has recently been praised in The Nation in ...