From Russia, With Thumbscrews
We here at Robbservations have been remiss in diverting our readership with penetrating, and yet scintillating analysis of world events, so we return with a few peeks into the darkened corners of the...
View ArticleDodging the Apocalypse
A friend forwarded this LA Times story about presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, alleging that Bachmann is opposed to the Renaissance and an advocate of the Dark Ages. Well, the Times' story...
View ArticleAtlas Shrugged Day
"Who is John Galt?" The light was ebbing, and Eddie Willers could not distinguish the bum's face. The bum had said it simply, without expression. But from the sunset far at the end of the...
View ArticleDupes of the Collective
Reading this article about Nobel-prize winning physicist Hermann Muller (1890-1967), it saysNobel prize winner Hermann Muller knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of...
View ArticleDissecting a Chocolate Pudding
Reading the transcript of a talk by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, it has some interesting statistics concerning the decline in violence throughout human history, but as Twain once said, there are...
View ArticleA Postscript for Monument Builders
In 1962, Ayn Rand wrote an essay, "The Monument Builders" (reprinted in The Virtue of Selfishness), where she named the real nature of this special type of parasite:...Socialism is not a movement of...
View ArticleCave Paintings of Chauvet
Just about the only magazine I've subscribed to for the last 15 years is Archaeology. I was catching up on back issues and found a fascinating article on the stone age paintings in the Chauvet Cave in...
View ArticleA Flaw in the Constitution?
No institution based on a set of firm principles can survive if it allows members who hold opposite principles. Imagine if the AMA allowed witch doctors among its members, or if the American Physical...
View ArticleConsorting With the Devil
Over on Facebook, where I sometimes ruminate to my demise, there pops up, now and then, like a multi-headed hydra out of a jack-in-the-box, the epi-phenomena of friends demanding their friends...
View ArticleMr. Thompson Live
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, published 1957:"Listen to Mr. Thompson's report on the world crisis, November 22!" The newspapers did not mention the outbreaks of violence that had begun to burst across...
View ArticleObama's End-Game
One thing I watch for closely is how Obama is working to undermine the military. My track record of prediction is quite good since he was elected -- 100%. Elimination of 2/3 of the U.S nuclear arsenal...
View ArticleA Confluence of Forces
There's an interesting connection between two recent news items. One was this fascinating description of the prison camps in North Korea, a place so horrific that it almost defies description. The...
View ArticlePost-Apocalyptic Musings of Henry Bemis
Many people are in love with their e-books -- and the convenience is certainly a factor. I'll stick with my print copies.But when I hear from many friends who delight in their ability to dispose of...
View ArticleThose Who Get It, Those Who Don't.
Today, it was reported that Pope Benedict XVI, on a trip to that Caribbean paradise, has said, "...Marxism was out of place in the contemporary world," and has urged Cubans to find "new models"."Today...
View ArticlePsychology of a Killer
This article, A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?doesn't provide a very good psychological analysis, but it mentions this much, which is worth considering to get to the correct conclusion about...
View ArticleFollow the Network
That title echoes one from David Horowitz, who has a site dedicated to tracing the connections of the Left, Discover the Network.I'm reading Trevor Loudon's book on Obama ("Barack Obama and the Enemies...
View ArticlePsychology and Music
I've thought for some time, and I'm thinking much more, recently, that an excellent way, and in some respects, the best way to study the workings of the human mind is via music. The piano, especially....
View ArticleThey Can Do Whatever They Want
A number of people (including me) have highlighted the danger of Presidential Executive Orders which claim almost unlimited authority for any type of "emergency" (see my post here) . For instance,...
View ArticleFlotsam, Jetsam and Lagan.
In his brilliant novel, The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo wrote that there are things that float on the surface of the ocean (flotsam), things that float to shore (jetsam), and then there are those...
View ArticleTrevor Loudon's Urgent Message On the Extreme Danger Posed by Obama
I urge you to listen to this entire 30 minute video, by Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand blogger who first exposed Obama's communist connections, including his mentor Frank Marshall Davis, Van Jones, and...
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