Two themes have been making their way through various posts this past week, and though they have been somewhat separated by post they are so intertwined that I’d argue each must be seen through...
It remains to be seen how effective the Occupy Wall Street folks will be. (We should see some more specific demands out of the occupiers in the coming weeks and months.) I tend to...
~by Aaron B. Slowly but surely, the Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining the attention of the mainstream media. A New York Times story on global protest movements makes a passing mention of the...
More capable legal minds have already written adroitly about the civil liberties nightmare that this due-process-less killing was. Consequently, I won’t delve too deeply into the legal (or moral) ramifications of granting the president...
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that I was being slightly hyperbolic when I suggested that libertarians dislike democracy; let’s also shuffle aside the Michael Lind article I linked to and the various...
Robinson Crusoe was an immediate success when first published in April, 1719. By the end of the year, it had been put through four editions in English, appeared in Dutch, French and German, was...
~by David Ryan Hello gents and ladies too. Erik has been nice enough to invite me back for another guest appearance. Regulars won’t have too much trouble guessing at my previous post, and for the rest...
Charlie Whittington owns the Kwik Kar Lube & Service in Plano, Texas, and he circulated a coupon giving any customer who recites John 3:16 a discount on an oil change. Marshall Wei, although aware...
Erik writes: [For libertarians] coercion can take a bunch of different shapes. Taxes are coercion. Democracy is coercion. Unions are coercion. Anything that represents the will of the collective over the will of the...
I’ve been thinking over Erik’s post about libertarians and democracy, and I’ve been taking the opportunity to think over my own attitudes toward democracy, and how compatible with libertarianism I think democracy is. First...
It appears that as part of what used to be called the Global War On Terror and now our permanent state of selective war, an American citizen who we may safely presume was both...
One thing libertarians talk about a lot is coercion. If you really peel back libertarian philosophy, that word looms just about as large as “liberty” or “freedom”. Coercion can take a bunch of different...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I take your point; Part 3 is where the votes are. But the reason why Cass (and others) are at least…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Voters can get comfortable with evil, but incompetence? That's a real problem.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Well, driving a rift between Musk and Trump seemed to be the main goal for a few months there. Start… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yea it's all good food for thought. Parts 1 and 2 seem like the kind of thing that could even have b… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I take it as people may be dumb but it's a bad idea to insult their intelligence. And a guy like Mus…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25These stats are why I claim that Israel deliberately attacking civilians isn't supported by the numb… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yeah, looks like the Three Groups of Voters have different takes on him. 1. AUGH I HATE HIM! I HATE… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's in NY. State will be fortunate to get life. I'd call it more a political assassination than a c…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Judge Crawford easily wins in Wisconsin despite or because of Musk’s 25 million spent on her opponen…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yes, but everybody knows that Israel is held to the standard of perfection while other countries are…
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