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News
To whom it may concern, I haven't been writing much for a few
months now, and won't be for at least several months more. I am extremely displeased with
today's education system, especially when I know how good it can be and ought to be. So,
after much consideration, I have decided to start a home school for grades 4-6, starting in
September 1999, with my 10-year-old son as my first student. I'm hoping to
"enroll" at least a few other students, and possibly let it serve as a pilot for
a future private school.
As my guide, I will follow the brilliant education philosophy developed and presented by Dr. Leonard Peikoff,
and the wonderful and inspiring example of it established by Lisa Van Damme in her
home school in California.
If you know of someone in Calgary, Alberta, Canada who might be interested in having their
child (grades 4-6) home schooled by me, starting in September 1999, then please have them
contact me at gwoice@home.com for further
information.
Cheers!
Glenn Woiceshyn
Letters
The Importance of Writing Letters to the Editor
An admirer of Ayn Rand once wrote a letter to her regarding a letter he earlier got
published in Newsweek Magazine. The published letter criticized a negative book review of
Atlas Shrugged in Newsweek. Ayn Rand wrote to the admirer as follows:
You write: "I especially appreciate your saying that my Newsweek letter was as
important to you positively as the Newsweek review was negatively."
I said: "more important." I do not attach any importance to negatives: evil is
impotent. It is not an issue of how many people will see your letter versus how many will
see the review. Your letter proves the existence of a man of intelligence and integrity;
the review proves the existence of a fool and a knave. The first is important, the second
is not.
When evil wins in the world, it is only by the default of the good. That is why one man of
reason and moral stature is more important, actually and potentially ... than a million
fools.
Ayn Rand
31 March 1961
Letters of Ayn Rand
(HC-1995, p. 562) Michael S. Berliner, Ed.
Preston Manning and the "Extremism"
Smear
Michael Kesterton on Ayn Rand
Apology to Preston Manning
Why the United Nations Supports The "War on
Drugs"
Time's Coverage of Teenage Sex
Dump the Minimum Wage
Chretien and the Sinking Canadian Dollar
Yes to Human Cloning
The Pay Equity Sham
Feminism and Pay Equity
Pay Equity vs. Taxpayers
Pay Equity is Egalitarianism
Pay Equity Certainly is Divisive
United Nations' Assault on Individual Rights
Tax Cuts are un-Canadian
Michael Enright Needs Lesson on
Environmentalism
Who's to Blame for Our Dollar's Collapse?
Why Kids Can't Read
Robert Fulford on "Faction"
Health Care Should be Privatized
Tax Cuts vs. Health Care -- a False Alternative
Clinton's Evil Appeasement of North Korea
Global Warming Scare is Another Environmentalist
Myth
How Clinton's Mind Works
Reform Party Should Stick to What's Important
Nelson Mandela's Reception in Canada
John Crispo on Bank Mergers
Logic and Reason
The Argument from Depravity -- A Hopeless
Defense of Capitalism
Diane Francis Is No Free Enterpriser
Let Banks Get Bigger
Canada's Brain Drain
An Environmentalist's View on Education
Environmentalism and Leftism
Fulford on Compassion Fakers
Ayn Rand Deserves a Public Hearing
Trustbusters are Thoughtbusters
A So-Called Debate on Hepatitis C
and Hepatitis C and the Reform Party
Modern Intellectuals Denying Consciousness
Linda McQuaig on David Frum
Antitrust Laws are Criminal
India's Nuclear Explosion
William Thorsell on Global Warming
Environmentalists Oppose Fresh Water Sales
Environmentalism and Mysticism
Environmentalist Paranoia
Ethics "Expert" Unethical Regarding Microsoft
Happiness is not Subjective
Parallels Between Quebec Separatism and
America's North-South Conflict
Hugh Segal and the Practical-Ideological Dichotomy
Lessons From the Jonesboro Massacre
Linda McQuaig and the Cult of Evasion
Liberal Hypocrisy and Consistency on
Forced-Sterilization Victims
Argument From Depravity -- A Hopeless
Defense of Capitalism
U.S. Antitrust Laws Are Pure Evil
Pol Pot Was a Consistent Altruist-Collectivist
Hugh Segal and the Cult of Compromise
Wendy Goldman Rohm Seeks to Destroy Microsoft
Fear Big Brother, Not Microsoft
Reds and Greens Unite Against Capitalism
Dump the International Monetary Fund
Rachel Carson Deserves Condemnation -- Not
Praise
Dalton Camp and the Real Renegades
George Soros Is Out To Lunch
Social Destruction Under the Guise of
Compassion
Jean Charest Doesn't Have the Right Stuff
Business Ethics and Selflessness
Free Speech and Sexual Harassment Laws
Is The West Rich Because of Luck?
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Essays
Ban on
"Partial-Birth" Abortion Would Be a Blow to Individual Rights
(September 25, 2003)
Given last week's Senate vote, Congress will soon ask President Bush to sign
a bill banning "partial-birth" abortions. Such a ban would constitute a
grave threat to women's health and a serious blow to individual rights.
Bush's Attack on
Partial-Birth Abortions Is a Scheme to Outlaw all Abortions
(February 28, 2003)
Those who are truly pro-life must fight any law prohibiting abortion, and do
so on principle--the principle of individual rights--the principle upon
which this pro-rights country was founded.
Public Education is Not
Accountable to Parents (January 27, 2003)
Public education involves forcing people, via taxation, to pay for public
schools. Individual parents are thereby denied the right to choose which
school receives their education dollars, i.e., the right to reward the best
schools for performance. This makes schools directly accountable to
politicians and government bureaucracies -- not to parents.
Terrorist attacks in
Kenya (December 4, 2002)
The U.S. "war on terrorism" has so far been a failure because, with the
exception of Afghanistan, the U.S. has been practicing the hopeless policy
of appeasement, the same decades-old policy that allowed terrorists to
become powerful enough to murder 3,000 people in one day on American soil.
Such appeasement has only strengthened the resolve of Islamic terrorists and
their sponsors.
Letters: "Innocents" of
War new! (September 19, 2001)
The sworn enemy of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Centre and
murdered thousands of innocent people is capitalism.
Humans Keep
Out! Environmentalists Excluding People from Parks
(August 5, 2001)
Governments Sacrifice
Humans for Bears (September 1, 2000)
The government has become an agent of nature-worshiping environmentalists
who value pristine nature above human life.
The Fundamental Cause of
Today's Social Ills (July 20, 2000)
So philosopher Mark Kingwell believes that the cause of social ills like
"crime and riots and beggars on the street" is the envy created by people
experiencing poverty?
Why I Won't Celebrate
Canada Day This July (July 2, 2000)
This year I will not celebrate Canada Day -- as a matter of principle.
Industrialization: The
Environmentalist's Version of Original Sin (March 6, 2000)
Environmentalists -- notorious for making doomsday predictions about man's
industrial activities while appealing to "science" -- are now turning to
religion to halt the "sins" of industrialization and development.
The Basis of Good
Government: The Protection of Individual Rights (October 17, 1999)
Bad government is not an inevitable condition of social existence -- it's
root cause is the failure to uphold and protect individual rights.
Lessons from History: Who
Killed Princess Diana? (September 8, 1999)
Over two years have passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and
the fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the
tragic and senseless death of princess Diana?
Emotionalism Explains
Mindless Violence at Colorado High School (May 3, 1999)
With guns and homemade bombs, two students executed a well-planned assault
on fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing
15 including themselves and one teacher) and injuring many others. What
explains this horrific tragedy?
Slavery By Taxation
(April 1, 1999)
When one takes into account all the increases in personal income tax, goods
and services, property and hidden taxes, Canadians now work six months a
year to fill government coffers -- a 55-day jump since 1961. (And you
thought slavery was banned!)
Collectivism by Default in
Canada: The Right Adopts Leftist Principles (March 19, 1999)
The proper strategy for a good alternative to Liberals would be to first
clearly identify and explain to Canadians why Liberal principles are bad.
(The remaining steps would involve clearly defining good principles and
policies, and then rationally persua
Justice for Elia Kazan
(March 1, 1999)
When one considers that the Communists slaughtered tens of millions of
innocent people -- millions more than even the Nazis did -- then any
knowledgeable person today who criticizes Kazan for naming members of the
Communist Party is morally depraved.
Environmentalism,
Eco-Terrorism and Endangered Species (January 25, 1999)
While mainstream environmental groups may try to distance themselves from
ELF and its "eco-terrorist" methods, the truth is that ELF did directly what
mainstream environmentalists have been doing indirectly for years via the
U.S. government's Endangered Species Act (ESA).
How Finance Minister Paul
Martin denies shareholder rights (January 22, 1999)
In rejecting the bank mergers, Paul Martin is catering to lobby groups
Hatred of Ability Masked
as Concern for the Poor (January 1, 1999)
Today's self-proclaimed enemies of world poverty are often the most ardent
opponents of capitalism. What explains this?
UN Declaration of Rights
Destroys Rights (December 11, 1998)
The concept of rights is older than the United Nations but relatively new in
human history — a predominantly savage and bloody history of war, murder,
slavery, rape and looting committed by humans against humans. Such is "life"
when people regard each other as sacrificial fodder for their needs, desires
or superstitions.
Bork and Dole join the
forces attacking Microsoft (November 21, 1998)
The following question was emailed to Glenn Woiceshyn, by an ABC reporter,
regarding the government's assault on Microsoft. Reprinted here is Glenn's
reply.
Is Capitalism Under
Threat? (November 18, 1998)
A BBC website forum asked the question "Is Capitalism Under Threat?". Here
is CM's answer.
Bank Mergers vs. "Public
Interest" (November 1, 1998)
Environmentalism and
Eco-Terrorism (September 30, 1998)
The Clinton Strategy for
Political Survival (September 15, 1998)
Who Killed Princess Diana?
(September 2, 1998)
A year has passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and the
fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the tragic
and senseless death of princess Diana?
Pay Equity is a Bigoted
Assault on "Human Rights" (August 12, 1998)
Canada's Reform Party
Abandons Principles for Power (August 5, 1998)
The proper criterion defining right versus left is individual rights versus
collectivism. Does the individual own his life and property or do they
belong to the collective — the tribe, "society," the state?
Sex, Lies, Politics, and
Clinton (August 1, 1998)
Clinton's deftness as a politician explains his recklessness (and
dishonesty).
"Perfect" Competition
versus Freedom of Competition (July 21, 1998)
The essence of a free market is not "perfect" competition, but freedom of
competition — freedom to produce and trade without coercion.
Bury the "Extremism" Smear
at Barry Goldwater's Funeral (July 10, 1998)
Many today, if asked for examples of "extremism," would likely respond: the
Ku Klux Klan, the Unabomber, Adolf Hitler, etc. The term "extremism" seems
to mean intolerance, racism, hatred, fanaticism and incitement to violence.
But it also seems to mean something else.
The Kyoto Protocol is a
Complete Fraud (June 12, 1998)
This treaty, if ratified, means drastic cuts to our fossil fuel consumption
and hence to our prosperity. It also means handing the United Nations power
to control the industrial activities and economies of sovereign countries.
'Anti-Discrimination' Laws
Destroy 'Human' Rights and Institutionalize Bigotry (May 10, 1998)
"Anti-discrimination" laws destroy the fundamental rights of all citizens
(including gays) thus paving the way for institutionalized bigotry and other
evils.
Michael Milken: Guilty of
Success and Victim of Non-Objective Reporting (April 22, 1998)
Michael Milken was among the first victims of terrorism in New York. The
terrorists were the Securities and Exchange Commission. Review of
Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial
Revolution.
Collectivism's Sacred Cow:
Public Education (April 14, 1998)
Public education throttles freedom. By doing so, it also throttles
education.
Protection of Individual
Rights is Good Government (April 5, 1998)
Bad government is not an inevitable condition of social existence — it's
root cause is the failure to uphold and protect individual rights.
Lessons from the Great Ice
Storm: Individualism vs Collectivism (March 7, 1998)
Individualism, not collectivism or altruism, is the root of benevolence and
good will among men.
Global Treaty Banning
Landmines is a Moral Obscenity (March 6, 1998)
Banning land mines - as with any ban on any weapon - disarms the innocent
and law abiding before the outlaws and warmongers.
The Lewinsky Sex
Allegations Against Clinton are Totally Believable (March 1, 1998)
Clinton became president not because he is a deft man of principle, but
because he is a deft pragmatist, one who skillfully monitors (and
manipulates) public opinion and alters his "principles" accordingly.
Individual Rights: Key To
Restoring National Unity in Canada (February 7, 1998)
The solution to national disunity is to eliminate pressure-group warfare by
handing sovereignty back to where it belongs — to the individual.
John Dewey's Legacy To
Education: Teen Violence (February 1, 1998)
Fundamentally, schools must institute a radical reversal of policy. What
they need to teach is not "socialization," but cognition. Schools need to
encourage individual, independent judgment and to provide the factual
knowledge and the reasoning skills tha
The U.S. Government's
Assault on Microsoft (January 1, 1998)
The U.S. government's antitrust assault on Microsoft is an assault on
success and liberty, and should be halted immediately.
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