Testing the new interface
October 24, 2009 Leave a comment
Testing the new interface
Polyamorous, libertarian heinleiner. ENTP, student of traditional Shaolin kung fu, writer, cunning linguist.
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- The Truth about Income InequalityThere has been a lot of hoopla, lately, about the gap between rich and poor, how it’s growing, and how we need to give government more power to get rid of that income disparity. It’s actually been shrinking for the past four years, but it’s still larger in the US than most countries. Some people […]kazvorpal
- Why We Conservatives Should Watch Al JazeeraI am a classic Reagan/Goldwater Conservative. I am careful to keep myself informed on every important socio-political issue, because I’m responsible that way. I find that almost has to include watching/reading Al Jazeera, and I challenge you to do the same…and this article will let you know why you want to. Let’s start with this: I’m […]kazvorpal
- Why “Moderates” Have Always been UnelectableThey keep telling us that Mitt Romney is the only “electable” candidate…just like they claimed about John McCain and Bob Dole. But, like McCain and Dole, the history is of Big Government “moderates” losing: 1976 Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan struggled through the whole primary season, reaching the convention with no majority. The Liberal “Moderate” […] […]kazvorpal
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- Tolkien, on Government
- Criminals Are Never Disarmed — Robert HeinleinCriminals are never materially handicapped by such rules; the only effect is to disarm the peaceful citizen and put him fully at the mercy of the lawless. Such rules look very pretty on paper; in practice they are as foolish and footless as the attempt of the mice to bell the cat. Such is my […]
- Power Attracts the Corrupt — Frank HerbertAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert, Dune
- Under Democracy — H.L. MenckenUnder democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. The Coolidge Prosperity and the Hoover Economy of Plenty were quite as bad as the New Deal. The United States has never developed an aristocracy really […]
- Guard Your Enemies from Oppression —> Thomas PaineHe that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression — Thomas Paine
- Your Right to Not Support Evil To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical — Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) …writing in the First Amendment’s sister document, expressing a principle that applies to the modern refusal to provide employees with services they con […]
- Global Warming Shamanism The bullying of fellow citizens by means of dreads and frights has been going on since paleolithic times. Greenpeace fund-raisers on the subject of global warming are not much different than tribal wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses. “Oh no, the Night Wolf is eating the Moon Virgin. Give me some silver and I’ll […]
- The Squeaky Wheel…May Be Foolish It seems to be a persistent failing that politicians listen to the loudest voices rather than the wisest ones. — Dave Nalle, RLC National Chairman
- Disarming the Victims After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. — William S Burroughs, The War Universe (1992)
- The Inconvenience of Too Much Liberty I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it. Then it is important to strengthen the state governments: and as this cannot be done by any change in the federal constitution…it must be done by the states themselves, erecting such barriers at the constitutional line as cannot […] […]
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