April 30, 2023
“Limited shareholder liability was never meant to protect well-heeled woke investors from the consequences of their actions during PR stunts at woke parades.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc. This week, I have another excerpt from Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke, Inc. that I found quite interesting. And this one comes with a history lesson to boot. After […]
Tags: American capitalism, corporate privilege, corporate shield, limited liability, Milton Friedman, preserving democracy, profit motive, protecting against corporate monsters, social activism, social responsibility, stakeholders, the common good, Vivek Ramaswamy, Wokenomics
Posted in Politics |
April 23, 2023
Sometimes I want to comment on a thing, but I’m not sure I want to do a full article on it. So, this week I’m taking three of those things and giving each a paragraph or two apiece. They aren’t connected. Just think of it as “highlighted news items of the week” or something like […]
Tags: anti-Christian, Biden administration, Cleopatra, Fox News, governmental overreach, Kayleigh McEnany, MSN, Netflix, particulate matter, regulatory control, The Daily Signal, Travis Fisher
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
April 16, 2023
“The state of medicine is an index of the civilization of an age and country — one of the best, perhaps, by which it can be judged.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes (1869) In the following excerpt from an Imprimis article by Dr. John Abramson, the author provides insights from both personal experience (as a medical […]
Tags: American medicine, Bayh-Dole Act, clinical trial agreements, drug manufacturers, dysfunctional system, financial incentives, Imprimis, John Abramson, pharmaceutical industry, prescription drugs, questionable peer-reviews, the Academic-Industrial Complex
Posted in Politics |
April 9, 2023
In a recent podcast from Stand to Reason with Greg Koukl, a caller (beginning around 25:30) asked about Koukl’s understanding of the biblical doctrine of predestination. Koukl began with a basic definition of the word — i.e., to determine that something will take place before it takes place — and pointed out that a lot […]
Tags: 1 Timothy, all kinds of men, Bible contradictions, Calvinism, foreknowledge, God's sovereignty, God's desires, Greg Koukl, James R. White, logical fallacies, predestination, Reformed theology, Romans 8, will of God
Posted in Religion |
April 2, 2023
“Stakeholder capitalism poisons democracy, partisan politics poisons capitalism, and in the end we are left with neither capitalism nor democracy.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc. As predicted, I have another lengthy quote for you from GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, specifically citing his book Woke, Inc.. In this section from early in the book, Ramaswamy […]
Tags: anti-ESG, anti-woke, corporate con artists, corporate wokeness, elitists taking power, fake woke, GOP presidential candidate, loss of democracy, moral obligation, social responsibility, stakeholder capitalism, stay woke, Vivek Ramaswamy, wealth and power, woke capitalism
Posted in Politics |