- On gay-rights activism. You want to disestablish marriage as a legally regulated institution entirely? As a libertarian, I’m with you. You want to amend the California constitution so that any two or more adults who want to get married — including groups of men and women in any number and mixture — may legally do so ... I’ll cross the border ... to help you campaign for it. But don’t tell me that ‘gays’ have a greater right to marriage than Mormon-offshoot polygamists. That sort of special pleading that ignores the historical discrimination against others just revolts me. Not perfect — for example dead wrong on abortion, which violates the libertarian no-harm principle — but makes good points as Paul did earlier. ‘For me, not for thee’ doesn’t work.
- Don’t bet on Obama reining in war spending.
- Government, ‘the greatest generation’ and the road to hell.
- Lefty hawks. History repeats itself as, true to form, liberals jump on Obama’s war wagon, Justin Raimondo writes.
- The piñata of plunder. Will Grigg on the stimulus.
- Don’t turn your children into peasants.
- Remembering the February Revolution 92 years ago the day after tomorrow (which I would have supported as a matter of survival and getting out of an immoral war, not to be confused with the October Revolution) and: The free market must be permitted to get on with offering exchanges in which both parties expect to benefit, unhampered by unpredictable behaviour-altering regulation and wealth confiscation. Only the State coerces. The only question Mr Brown should be asking is which tax (capital gains tax, corporation tax, income tax, ‘inflation tax’, or VAT) he should scrap first.
- Fear! Panic! War! Again, still, for ever.
- Thought, action and the market system: how denials of rationality are the beginnings of a vicious downward spiral. Also I think one can say ‘the great tradition’ as described by the Pope at Regensburg begat classical liberalism (as the Jesuits at Salamanca showed); both the looney left and the well-meaning church integristes are wrong.
- A truth commission to uncover Bush-era wrongdoing? When you wish upon a star...
Catholic integralism is the true seamless garment.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Friday, February 20, 2009
From RR
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