Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberty. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2017

The Logical and Epistemological Derivation and Progression of Rights

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Here's a post I started writing about... two years ago I think? Maybe three? In response to a question about what rights were, and how ...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Trump Must be Held Accountable for the Bad Actions of His Campaign

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This past Tuesday, Donald Trumps campaign manager Corey Lewandowski assaulted a reporter at a press event with Trump... ...in fact right ...
Saturday, May 02, 2015

Misunderstanding Law, Government, and Society

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Most people... At least most people in modern western democracies... Seem to have a fundamental and unconscious assumption about the nature ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Performance Enhancing? Nope... normalizing... But don't try to tell the DEA that.

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There's a funny thing about my life... I'm not sure if this is comic, tragic, ironic or what... I spent more than 10 years as a se...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Windowpanes, Pencils, and Paperclips

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Yesterday I wrote something on facebook that bears repeating here: A comprehensive understanding of the pencil problem, combined with a t...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

The problem with "Wouldn't it be..." and "Wasn't it..."

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Progressive ideas usually begin with: "Wouldn't it be great if..." (progressives are generally theorists) Ok, right ther...
Wednesday, May 07, 2014

"Climate Change", and the false dichotomy of "evil or stupid"

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Once again the drumbeat is sounding throughout that land, that Republicans... or rather, everyone not a leftists... are "anti-science...
Friday, May 02, 2014

There can be no other explanation...

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I got a comment on my post " Why I am NOT a libertarian ", which amused me to no end: "If you are stupid and uneducated, wh...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Why I am NOT a libertarian...

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I am not a libertarian because I think I'm smarter than you. I am not a libertarian because I think I'm better educated than you. ...

Freedom, Group Identification, and Consequences

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To anyone trying to make the Cliven Bundy issue, or the Donald Sterling issue, or the Brendan Eich issue about freedom of speech... ...P...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The Much Bigger Problem

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Millions of Americans think gays should be allowed to marry. That's not a problem. Millions of Americans think gays should not be al...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Problem With Freedom

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Here's the problem with supporting liberty and freedom... You have to support peoples liberty and freedom to be assholes and idiots. ...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Franchise limitation isn't the solution to illegal immigration

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A few days ago, Roger L. Simon of PJ Media posted "A Modest Proposal for Immigration Reform" . "So here’s my simple — call ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Bye Bye 4th and 5th amendment; Obamacare info may be used for Law Enforcement and Audit activities

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Well... we knew that the 4th and 5th amendment meant nothing to them... never mind HIPAA... but really?   Obamacare Marketplace: Personal...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Because it's Right... and Because it's Tactically Sound

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A few days ago, an NBA player of no particular note came out as gay... Which, really, should also be of no particular note. But then ESP...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Rules, and laws, don't keep you safe

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Alright, let's get down to it here... Some people seem to believe that laws, rules, protocol, negotiation, consent etc... keep them sa...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Treaties, Executive Orders, and the NRA

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So... It seems that a lot of folks understand that the electoral math of the question makes any significant federal gun control in the near ...