Ed. note: In a Facebook post last week, Kevon Martis responded forcefully to the strong insinuation that he was a disingenuous troublemaker against economic progress. Fake conservatives such as Mr. Revit, pushing for bigger government and land degradation in the name of ‘green’ energy and climate ‘stabilization’, should not pretend to be what they are not.
“I am prepared to debate you in a public forum on any matter of renewable energy from energy policy to land use. And unlike you, I will do it on my own dime rather than at the expense of Michigan ratepayers….” (Kevon Martis, below)
To all my conservative legislator friends, feel free to tell Michigan Conservative Energy Forum’s (MCEF) Ed Rivet that Kevon Martis says “SAY MY NAME!” instead of using such terms as “professional agitators” (12:25); “the noisy squeaky wheel” (12:35); those who “spread a lot of false information or misinformation” (12:40); “NIMBYs and naysayers” (15:50).…
Continue Reading“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser’s intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture’s dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers.”
“Moral cowardice is fear of upholding the good because it is good, and fear of opposing the evil because it is evil. The next step leads to opposing the good in order to appease evil, and rushing out to seek the evil’s favor.”
– Ayn Rand
ExxonMobil switched strategies from principle to appeasement early in the first term of President Obama. I have watched, step-by-step, a great corporation become mediocre for the first time in its storied history.
I long for Lee Raymond, who was honest and demanding–with impressive results for the shareholder, employees, consumers, and the national/international economy.…
Continue ReadingEd Note: With tens of millions of Americans preparing for travel this Memorial Day weekend, Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road‘ [Leaves of Grass (1856)] is apropos. His call to adventure in the mid-19th century, a time of Westward Expansion for the U.S., resonates for all of us today in travel.
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth, that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.…