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I just saw the photos from Mumbai . Suddenly the whole world stands in perspective, and even my most major problems seem minuscule and insignificant when staring at these photos. Pure and absolute horror is the only phrase that comes close to what I feel as I look on as human beings destroy the lives...
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Doug, you were right on Iraq in 2003 and are right now , but haven't you forgotten one little thing? What gives you any cause to believe that the stiff-necked neocons and others who fell for their war-mongering (the Christian right and other) will either admit their mistakes or be neutralized in...
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Good idea, Bruce , but do you really expect Obama to bite, and thereby drastically reduce his own discretion? Obama already has George W. Bush and Congress to blame for the war - what important advantage does he gain by claiming the AUMF was an unconstitutional delegation of authority to the President...
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On July 17, Al Gore challenged our nation to produce " 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly carbon-free sources within 10 years ". Ron Bailey , science correspondent of Reason online , has examined whether Gore's proposal is at all practically achievable. Bailey...
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So the other day an Objectivist wrote this gem at their blog: "On this Memorial Day, I would like to honor the three men of the American Civil War who understood the terrible need for total war : President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman. Their vigorous...
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It seems Hollywood may take a few years to catch up to the message of Ron Paul. Below is my gist of the newest Hollywood blockbuster, the superhero movie Iron Man, in bullets. Here's a quick synopsis: The main character, Tony Stark, heads a successful arms company, Stark Industries. He is captured...
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Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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Democrats presently in Congress don't seem to care too much about doing much to stand up to Pres. Bush on the war in Iraq, despite becoming the majority party on the back of a wave of voter revulsion over the war in November of 2006. This lack of action has fuelled a wave of newer candidates among...
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So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate perpetual contract that makes the government...
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There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/73720/?comments=view&cID=811026&pID=810862#c811026
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The War on Drugs This one has been going on for a long time. I started with this one, not because of personal preferences of any kind, but because this is the basis for so much federal intervention into the everyday lives of the citizens and it is the one I am most familiar with. The model to enact federal...
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In the most classical definition of the word, conservatism has always stood for a defense of the status quo. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the so-called "liberal" parties were more or less interested in revolutionary change into the future and opposition to political power, while the so-called...
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I'm watching the Liberty Bowl on ESPN this afternoon and the commentator states that one of the players, and I paraphrase, was over in Iraq fighting for our country. We Austrians know that that is a ludicrous statement but there could be three reasons he said it: 1. He's utterly naive and stupid...
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Having just stumbled across places where Lew Rockwell and others have done me the honor of posting three of my favorite quotes on war, I'd like to repeat those quotes here in the hope of increasing the likelihood that others might see them. My favorite quotes on war are from Hermann Goering and James...
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Defining Rational Egoism Wikipedia defines rational egoism as follows: "Rational egoism is the pursuit of one's own, accurately perceived, self-interest. The term may refer either to the philosophical view that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue self-interest (a view closely related...
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