Sunday Song
Christmas reminds me of all of the people who are far away yet still in our lives, like my cousin Colin, who got to Iraq a few days ago…
Josh Groban – I’ll Be Home for Christmas:
My Latest Budding Intellectual Passion…
is anti-war rhetoric. Here is one of the books I will be reading over break:
The Best Man in Washington…
lays it all out for you on Wikileaks: A government who won’t let you keep its officials accountable by way of recording is surely to be corrupt. There will be a crackdown, even if this leak wasn’t even that big of a deal. And don’t think the government wont put measures in place such that…
DetailsReframing Our Labels
A column from LewRockwell this morning spoke to me of the true political labels that matter: Authoritarian versus Libertarian… The question isn’t whether you’re a liberal or conservative. Who can say what either of those labels means anymore? Like “Christian,” a liberal (or a conservative) can be anything he wants to be and still claim…
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
– Gilbert Chesterton
Wish me luck on my first final today…
Sunday Song…
for this week ain’t a song. Just Class:
Video of the Day
too funny.
Looking Down a Well that I Thought Was a Tunnel with a Light at the End
I am not fearful, but I think this country is entering ominous times. Everything of late has been geared toward increasing the State’s size and power, and it gets worse every day. What do I mean? The bailouts and stimulus packages issued by the Fed, creating money out of thin air and devaluing the dollar…
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I bet you can guess how I feel about the free dissemination of information about governments, no matter how secret they are purported to be. The most pertinent commentary (slanted in favor of what I believe) that I have seen on the matter is from Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com: The WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed not…
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are easiest to observe in video form. Here are a few of them I have found in the past few weeks… Walter E. Williams proposes the idea that voting should be like shareholding in a company, in that you get as many votes as your taxes pay for. I doubt most people would bite, but…
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