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Hsieh PJM OpEd: "Beware Counterfeit 'Responsibility'"
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Hsieh PJM OpEd: "Beware Counterfeit 'Responsibility'"

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 09:00 AM PST

PajamasMedia has published my latest OpEd, "Beware Counterfeit 'Responsibility'":

My theme is that the Obama Administration's version of "individual responsibility" (also shared by many Republicans) is a counterfeit version of the concept aimed masking its drive to subvert genuine responsibility and freedom.

Here is the opening:

The ObamaCare individual insurance mandate met its first courtroom defeat when Judge Henry Hudson ruled it unconstitutional in Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius. But while the legal battle is likely to smolder on for years until it reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, the rhetorical battle is heating up in the court of public opinion.

In particular, the Obama administration is attempting to defend the individual mandate as a matter of "individual responsibility." If Americans allow them to get away with this counterfeit notion of "responsibility," it will jeopardize the freedoms that make genuine individual responsibility possible...

(Read the full text of "Beware Counterfeit 'Responsibility'".)

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Atlas Shrugged Video Contest

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 07:00 AM PST

Lin Zinser of the Ayn Rand Center sent the following message to OActivists, and I thought that NoodleFood readers might like to review and vote on the videos submitted for the Atlas Shrugged Video Contest too:

The time for entries in the Atlas Shrugged video contest is over. We have over 100 entries, some by people on this list. And now it's time to support your favorite video(s).

ARI is awarding an iPad to the video with the most votes, and it would be great if the winning video accurately related the story of Atlas Shrugged to current events or to the life of the videographer. With this in mind, we're asking you to vote for your favorite video(s) every day from now until December 22. The winners in all categories will be announced December 23. Remember, you can vote for each video once per day. Encourage others to do so as well.

Vote here.

Thanks for helping to make the contest a success!

Some OList subscribers submitted videos, and so you might want to review and vote on those early and often. They are: