Daily Archive: May 19, 2012

/// May 19, 2012

How Gary Hart Taught Me that Obama Will Win in November

You don’t vote for Presidents for the reasons you think you do.

/// May 19, 2012

What’s a Grecian Government Urn?

The situation in Greece seems to be coming to a head, with the Greek people near-united in opposition to austerity, but not apparently sufficiently united on an alternative. The mainstream left has lost ground...

/// May 19, 2012

You Probably Think This Blog Post Is About You

Boegiboe and I are headed to Las Vegas a little early — as in, today. While we’re there, we’ll be seeing the total eclipse of the sun. And all the fun things Vegas more...

/// May 19, 2012

Natural Rights, Naturally

A long, long post about my views on natural rights theory, much of it recycled from my defunct blogs. Prompted by some of Tod’s questions below.

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Section8 on All the President’s Nominees: The Legion of GroomHegseth Defended monuments in Washington such as the Vietnam Memorial, while your buddies were fine…
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