Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
From Reason's Matt Welch:
As the Sarah Palin choice epitomizes, John McCain has been willing to sacrifice any principle to become president. ...
If you are, as John McCain has been in his writings, prepared to alter your entire personality in the greater case of your own political ambitions, then previously ironclad ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Cato's Gene Healy had an excellent article in the Christian Science Monitor last week. Some excerpts (emphasis added):
What moved Barack Obama to seek the presidency was "the basic idea of empathy" and the notion that if "we see somebody down and out ... we care for them." Republican John McCain ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Reason magazine editor Matt Welch's column in the New York Times (published in March) summarizes John McCain's opposition to individual freedom:
Behind any successful politician lies a usable contradiction, and John McCain’s is this: We love him (and occasionally hate him) for his stubborn individualism, yet his politics are best understood ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
No. And it's not possible, anyway. But apparently people think that's part of the job.
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Senator Obama's op-ed on Social Security begins:
In this country, we have always believed that a lifetime of hard work and honest living should be rewarded with a secure and dignified retirement -- and Social Security is the cornerstone of that social compact. Last week, as we celebrated its anniversary, we ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
An amusing video from Americans for Prosperity:
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Via Reason.tv.
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
In his speech at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Barack Obama says he will "ask Americans to serve" and "ask for your service." But will he ever actually ask? Sure, he can ask for our vote, and there a point where all eligible voters can choose to vote for ...
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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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