Understandably, the horrific murders at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, have put many people around the country on edge. Obviously, we want to do what we reasonably can to protect ourselves and our families from criminal attacks. And we want our government to take seriously its responsibility to protect…

Let’s review some recent news about the situation in Egypt. The country is engaged in a power struggle between its military and the Islamist, America- and Israel-loathing Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks a worldwide caliphate. As but one illustration of the reigning insanity, in the wake of the Brotherhood’s political successes,…

In light of depressed movie attendance due partly to the recent murders at an Aurora movie theater, we should remember the profound joy and inspiration good movies can offer. TOS has reviewed a number of films: The Avengers, Act of Valor, The Help, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, and The King's…

Colorado, my home, has suffered two horrific, internationally publicized mass murders in recent years, at Columbine High School in 1999 and at an Aurora movie theater just days ago. Despicably, some public commentators quickly sought to scapegoat the innocent rather than blame the guilty for these crimes. After Columbine, for…

As Ayn Rand writes in The Romantic Manifesto: Consciously or subconsciously, explicitly or implicitly, man knows that he needs a comprehensive view of existence to integrate his values, to choose his goals, to plan his future, to maintain the unity and coherence of his life. . . . That power…

Like others throughout Colorado and the world, I am heartbroken by the horrific murders last week at a movie theater in Aurora, a theater a short drive from my home. The depraved lowlife, whose name does not deserve repetition, slaughtered twelve innocent, life-loving people and injured 58 more. The pain…

Although I do not always agree with Scott Rasmussen’s political proposals, the pollster’s understanding of American trends and attitudes is unparalleled. In his latest book, The People’s Money, Rasmussen reviews depressing facts about increasing government spending. Since the 1950s, Rasmussen reports: Federal spending alone has increased faster than population growth…

My advice: Go see The Dark Knight Rises asap. The final film of Christopher Nolan’s outstanding Batman trilogy is not a typical comic-book movie; it is a serious action drama in which a few of the characters happen to wear masks. The story is epic in scale, involving the life…

Barack Obama’s July 13 speech, in which he tells business owners, “you didn’t build that,” has rightly generated enormous criticism. But why did he say it? Before we turn to that question, let’s review exactly what Obama said: [I]f you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. .…

If you live in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, or any of eleven other fortunate cities in the world, you can hire rides from Uber. Here’s how it works: After you register your credit card information with the company, you can use your mobile device to schedule a ride with a…

The tax hikes on “the rich” that President Obama proposes should be considered in the context of a government growing out of control. Author Arthur Herman describes some frightening statistics in a recent article for Fox News: "Public sector—state, local, and federal—now consumes 40% of GDP, compared to 33% just…

“Healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege,” writes New York Congressman Edolphus Towns. He offers no argument for this, but states merely, “This is what we learned last month when the United States Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” a.k.a. ObamaCare. Towns…

Thanks to the work of the Pacific Legal Foundation, it is now legal to operate a moving company in Missouri without first complying with anticompetitive, rights-violating licensing laws. PLF reports: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed legislation this week repealing the state’s anticompetitive licensing law for moving businesses. The development marks…

Islamists commit so many atrocities—from slaughtering Americans and Israelis, to murdering homosexuals and Christians, to disfiguring and murdering women, to raping and mutilating little girls—that one can become lackadaisical about the countless related stories that stream past us on the internet and television every day. But once in awhile we…

Ladies and gentlemen, computer geeks and warriors, unsheathe your swords. In an extraordinary fund-raising drive, Subutai Corporation raised $526,125 from 9,023 backers (me included) to finance the creation of a video game called CLANG, a game to be built by swordsmen using a realistic sword-like interface. No doubt the Kickstarter…