Daily Archive: April 30, 2012

Books / The League

April 30, 2012

May’s Embarrassment of Riches – A Books & Reading Open Thread

For the past few months I have been bitching to friends and family that I can’t find anything good to read. So I am really looking forward to the next four weeks. May 2012...

April 30, 2012

Constitutional Authority Statements

I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for short – couldn’t get another O in there, guys?), and its intersection with the free market, libertarianism...

April 30, 2012

A Question for Techies, Engineers and the Libertarian-Leaning

Reading an old “office war story” by Wardsmith over the weekend, it struck me that most of the libertarian leaning people I know in my fleshbot life work as engineers, programmers, or in some...

American Politics

April 30, 2012

Wiring the Wonky Left’s Moral Compass

Thanks in no small part to Andrew Sullivan and Rod Dreher, my post last week on the “Wonky” American Left has generated some interesting discussion. Given that I’ve been unsuccessfully pushing this argument for...

Editor Picks

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James Joyce's Ulysse

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CJColucci in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Wow, putting tariffs in illegal drugs coming into the country. Think of the revenue.
InMD in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Just to add you look at that situation with the longshoreman and port automation. On the one hand th…
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Actually, it was going to mention some stuff that the government wouldn't have liked: https://www.th…
David TC on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Well, we are now at the time of year where the Fed reports on how things look, and a lot of companie…
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Marchmaine in reply to InMD 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…
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