Time to calm down re: that last post and give a taste of why this sweet man is unlike so many others. Being a “politician” is never a compliment, especially coming from me. But somehow, Paul is political and tactful in explaining ideas that people don’t often encounter, and he is a master politician in…
DetailsProgressive ideals require government enforcement of several notions that oppose human nature. For example, equality (meaning “sameness” in leftist circles) requires the coercive hindering of some and the unnatural aid of others. Erasing economic disparity requires taking money by force from a person who worked to earn it and giving it to someone else. Government…
DetailsOver at RogueOperator, there is another defense that every conservative should know. Frank Chodorov caveat: “As for me, I will punch anyone who calls me a conservative in the nose. I am a radical.” Still, sometimes I have the urge to defend conservativism, which at least pays lip service to free markets, freedom, and small…
DetailsI have a few semi-disconnected thoughts that have been stirring around in my head that I have alluded to in past post and have arisen as a response to Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. This book is unspeakably important, but more on that in a bit… Generally, Democrats/Leftists who know anything about…
DetailsThings are moving fast this week, so here is a redux of the aggregate post a few days ago… Costs of War dot org gives us some disturbing numbers concerning the human and financial toll Afghanistan and Iraq have taken on the world. Everyone extolling the virtues of the two [main] wars should examine this…
DetailsA ZeroHedge post from a while back struck me as speaking truth as to what is needed to stick with an ideology of freedom (versus one of “domestic government will save us all” and “war abroad will save us all,” each of which respectively seeming to be the only thing that each party fully agrees…
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