Category Archives: Political Philosophy

Socking It To The SEALs

Bush, Criminal Injustice, Individualism Vs. Collectivism, Military, Neoconservatism, Political Philosophy, Republicans, Terrorism

Another of the many stories covered and analyzed on BAB for its significance ahead of the rest was that of Petty Officers Matthew McCabe, Jonathan Keefe and Julio Heurtas. The three Navy SEALs stand accused by Ahmed Hashim Abed—thought to be behind the premeditated murder and mutilation of four U.S. contractors in Falluja in 2004—of punching him. The real scandal is that our bloated behemoth of a military, the Navy in this instance, is acting like the state bureaucracy that it is and proceeding at full throttle against the these patriots.

Read “Make Me Thankful: Don’t Enlist!.”

The common refrain you’ll hear from your garden variety neoconservative is that Obama is to blame.

Please! Bush was every bit as hateful when it came to unleashing his bloodhound, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, on Border-Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, to give but one example of Bush’s many betrayals.

“The state’s ‘rules of engagement’ rule-out any meaningful defense of American lives and property; they are rigged against America’s defenders and favor her infiltrators.”

Don’t expect the megaphones for the Republican-cum-neocon cabal to be capable of articulating this reality. At core, they are tribalists and collectivists who cleave to their own no matter what.

Broad Sides, One Woman’s Clash with a Corrupt Culture

Classical Liberalism, Ilana Mercer, libertarianism, Liberty, Political Philosophy

My first book, Broad Sides, One Woman’s Clash with a Corrupt Culture, is now back in print. The publisher is accepting pre-orders now, and will fulfill them in about two weeks, just in time for your Christmas and Hanuka shopping.

The Second Edition comes with bonus material and reviews. All in all, it is a very good paleo-libertarian primer. Read about it here.

The book will be ready for sale and updated at Amazon shortly.

Broad Sides, One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture

Classical Liberalism, Ilana Mercer, libertarianism, Liberty, Political Philosophy

My first book, Broad Sides, One Woman’s Clash with a Corrupt Culture, is now back in print. The publisher is accepting pre-orders now, and will fulfill them in about two weeks, just in time for your Christmas and Hanuka shopping.

The Second Edition comes with bonus material and reviews. All in all, it is a very good paleo-libertarian primer. Read about it here.

The book will be ready for sale and updated at Amazon shortly.

Palin/Bachmann Endorse Doug Hoffman

Elections, Iraq, Political Philosophy, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, War

Before you boo, and insist that sitting on the political fence and preening your perfect libertarian feathers (from the imagery you can see I’m quite taken with that green little leprechaun, T. Cup, my parrot) is the only principled position, remember that Ron Paul endorsed Constitution Party nominee, Chuck Baldwin.

Now, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann have come out in support of Doug Hoffman for the 23rd Congressional District of New York. He belongs to the Conservative Party. Who are they? Where is their platform? I see he equivocates about the war, although to be fair it doesn’t sound as though he wants it perpetuated:

“We are past the point of pointing fingers over how we got to where we are in Iraq and Afghanistan. The question for us now is where do we go from here? I believe we must continue to try and turn the security and governing of Iraq over to the Iraqis.”

I know the Constitution Party is against foreign entanglements.

In any event, it’s good that the two women are deepening the rift between the GOP’s liberal wing and its hard-right faction.