The New Republic published an article by Mark Lilla – The Truth About Our Libertarian Age
Max Borders replies at FEE Site – The Dumb Libertarian Era Is Here
The New Republic published an article by Mark Lilla – The Truth About Our Libertarian Age
Max Borders replies at FEE Site – The Dumb Libertarian Era Is Here
In an article at the FFF site, Jacob Hornberger comments.
“The thousands of U.S. soldiers who died in Ramadi and the rest of Iraq died for nothing, just like those 58,000 plus U.S. soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. They all died for nothing too.”
ABOUT THOSE U.S. TROOPS WHO DIED IN RAMADI
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First, let’s zoom out a few orders of magnitude to look at the Climate Orthodoxy as a series of dots that must be connected, or better, a series of premises that must be accepted in their totality.
That is a lot to swallow. And yet, it appears that the Climate Orthodoxy requires we accept all of it. Otherwise, why would the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publish a document called “Summary for Policymakers”?
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“Government is like a cancer. Less government is better than more government, just as less cancer is better than more cancer, but as long as it exists, it’s a threat. As long as society accepts the idea that force is the way to solve problems, the only limit on violence is what enforcers cannot be convinced to do. ”
April 22, 2015
Historian Ralph Raico discusses Winston Churchill click here for full article
Drew was on public radio in LA. They interviewed him about his documentary that is being shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival
My brother forwarded an article from the New York Times
Middle Class or So They Say
From my perspective,
thinking of aggregates of individuals as members of an economic class is unfortunate, and provides no benefits for making public policy decisions.
The discussion I was having with myself got me thinking about promoting a culture that guards others from the effects of your own dangerous activities.
If people believe it is bad to feel insecure, then they should not have children without buying an insurance policy that will keep their children from becoming economically insecure, and a burden on others. If they cannot afford such insurance, then they should not have children.
It should be part of our culture, that just as parents should vaccinate their kids to prevent illness, parents should have insurance to prevent economic catastrophes. If they are not willing or able to have their kids vaccinated or have insurance, then they should not have children.
Children can hurt people and property, and thus parents should either be self-insured or buy insurance to compensate other people who get harmed by children. If it is dangerous for children not to be vaccinated, the cost of insurance will be high. If it is not dangerous than the market will provide such liability insurance for next to nothing.
At http://fff.org/2015/04/01/constitution-bill-rights-failed-experiment/
Jacob Hornberger argues that the Constitution has done what it was designed to do. It is the vast majority of the American People that have failed by supporting the welfare/warefare state.
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So, why didn’t the Constitution and the Bill of Rights protect us from the getting a welfare-warfare state?
Consider a sea wall, one that is designed to protect a community from extremely high tides. It works for 100 years, keeping extremely large tides, including those caused by hurricanes, from reaching the community, which remains high and dry for a century.
But one day, a tsunami hits. The wave is so enormous that it easily overcomes the sea wall and inundates the community, destroying property and killing dozens of people.
Can we say that the sea wall failed? No, because the sea wall was never designed to withstand a tsunami. It was designed only to keep out high tides, which it succeeded in doing for 100 years.