Category Archives: politics

faith-based voting

Fred Pohl two years ago: None of the four leading Republican presidential candidates is acceptable, because none has a plan to deal with global warming. Obama “is the only remaining hope we have”; he has no plan either, “but his … Continue reading

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amazing restraint

Roderick Long defines right-conflationism as defending existing economic structures as if they were outcomes of a genuinely free market (what Kevin Carson calls vulgar libertarianism), and left-conflationism as using those outcomes to attack the concept of free markets. I hope … Continue reading

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degrees of treason

Peter Ludlow (linked from Reason): The former United States ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, argued that Snowden “thinks he’s smarter and has a higher morality than the rest of us … that he can see clearer than other … Continue reading

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down with “capitalism”

I posted this, which is mostly a condensation and paraphrase of part of Roderick Long’s zaxlebax speech. Except for the chicken part.

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QotD

Do we not continually hear them quote Blackstone’s assertion that “no subject of England can be constrained to pay any aids or taxes even for the defence of the realm or the support of government, but such as are imposed … Continue reading

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best libertarian book evar

When did this happen? Mary Ruwart has webbed the first edition of Healing Our World.

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qotd

Charles Johnson: For the individualist, half of human decency in political thinking is just learning to keep your personal pronouns straight. Found by some indirect chain of links from Roderick Long’s blog.

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