Name:
Mike LaFerrara

Location:
New Jersey

Greetings and welcome to my blog. My name is Michael A. (Mike) LaFerrara. I sometimes use the pen name Mike Zemack, which I still use to sign my blog posts. Zemack stands for the first letters of the names of my six grandchildren. I was born in 1949 in New Jersey, U.S.A., where I still reside with my wife of 39 years, Kathleen. I have two daughters, Christine and Susan, and two sons-in-law, Jason and Jerome. The goal and purpose of my blog is the discussion of current or historical events based on my philosophical, moral, and political principles. For a full discription of the purpose of this blog, see my Introduction. I can be reached at mal.atlas@comcast.net. Thanks, Mike LaFerrara.

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FIRM Healthcare Publications
ARC On Healthcare
Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis
ARC's Response to the Financial Crisis
The Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures

Ayn Rand and Objectivism
Books
Business and Economics
Capitalism and Free Markets
Constitution and Law
Culture
Education
Eminent Domain
Environmentalism
Government
Healthcare
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New Jersey
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Religion
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-ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
-AYN RAND'S NORMATIVE ETHICS...The Virtuous Egoist Tara Smith
LIBERAL FASCISM...The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning Jonah Goldberg
-MORAL MINORITY Brooke Allen
-REAGAN'S WAR Peter Schweizer
-SOMETHING FOR NOTHING: The All-Consuming Desire that turns the American Dream into a Nightmare Brian Tracy
-STATE OF FEAR Michael Crichton
-THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO Andrew Bernstein
-THE FOUNTAINHEAD Ayn Rand
-THE OMINOUS PARALLELS...The Chaos of Pre-Hitler Germany...and The End of Freedom in America Leonard Peikoff
EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM...Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

-Moral Health Care vs. “Universal Health Care” by Lin Zinser and Paul Hsieh

-Health Care is not a Right by Leonard Peikoff

FAQ on Free Market Health Insurance

Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America

Principles of a Free Society

The Comprachicos

Why Individual Rights?

-"I love getting older...I get to grow up and learn things." Madalyn, then 5 years old, Montessori student, and my grand-daughter

-"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." Francis Bacon

-"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Ronald Reagan

-"Thinking is hard work. If it weren't, more people would do it." Henry Ford

-"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." Ayn Rand

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-Ayn Rand's Ideas: An Introduction

Atlas Shrugged - America's Second Declaration of Independence

-The Separation of School and State: The Case for Abolishing America's Government Schools

-The Menace of Pragmatism: How Aversion to Principle is Destroying America

Christmas…A Holiday For All
America's Core: Liberty, or Compromise?
The "Tea Party Budget" Emerges
From Digital Revolution to "Global Community" Supr...
ObamaCare "Death Panel" Targeting 70-Year-olds?
A Thanksgiving Message
Forbes: "Death Panels ... We already have one"
School Choice, Collectivist Style
On This Veterans Day, A Word About Those Who Suppo...
Bank of America Rescinds Debit Card Fees

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