Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
From George Will's Newsweek review of The Cult of the Presidency, by Gene Healy:
If you can name it, presidents are responsible for it. The name for this is infantilization. "The average American," said President Richard Nixon, "is just like the child in the family—you give him some responsibility and he ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
David Boaz of the Cato Institute points out that neither candidate for Life Coach of the United States (or is it Daddy, High Priest, or Santa Claus) has much respect for individualism. Rather the derive meaning from our own personal life goals and priorities, we can do so only with ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Sure, both of the United States oppose free speech through their support of campaign finance laws. But we have much to appreciate here, as Ethiopian journalist Habtamu Dugo discusses in this video.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Update to: What warrants explaining: equality or inequality?
Consider what Arthur Brooks wrote in his recent post at the Freakonimics blog:
In my book I argue that conservatives are more optimistic about the future than liberals are, and believe in each individual’s ability to get ahead on the basis of achievement.Liberals are ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I've borrowed that phrase from a Cato-at-Liberty post by Sallie James. She quotes Michelle Obama:
Barack Obama … is going to demand that you shed your cynicism… That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I'm paraphrasing one of my favorite lines in Yaron Brook's recent commentary in Forbes about how politicians use tax exemptions to garner political favor and control our behavior. He does a fine job of connecting what we usually consider to be an economic issue with a moral issue. ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Update: The Rocky Mountain News published a more polished version of this as a Speakout (web only) on Feb. 27.
Jared Polis is a Democrat running for U.S. Congress representing Colorado's 2nd District. In a Speakout in Wednesday's Rocky Mountain News, he writes:
First, let us not delude ourselves into thinking ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
I've happy to announce a new website I created, WhoOwnsYou.org. (You can order the bumper sticker below!) As I've written earlier, some politicians and activists want government to control the health care industry. In the end, this means that bureaucrats will determine who gets what health care, ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Submitted to their website:
As a former co-chair of the campus group OMF, a market-anarchist student group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I was quite angered to receive YAF posters in the mail of George W. Bush and Anne Coulter [click here at your own risk, cringe!] is admirable defenders ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Yet another notable part of an Arnold Kling article: Porkbusters.org. As quoting its Wikipedia entry:
Porkbusters is an effort led by mostly conservative and libertarian bloggers to cut pork barrel spending by the U.S. Congress in order to help pay for Hurricane Katrina recovery projects. The effort was launched ...
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