America, Crime, Criminal Injustice, Ethics, Iran, Reason, Russia
To extrapolate from Dinesh D’Souza’s illogic (explained nicely by Jack Kerwick), when an exceptionally ‘Good Country,’ as the US surely is, downs a plane, that country deserves mitigation, for it is good. In other words, the properties of the crime, which are the same whoever commits it, somehow change, depending on the identity of the […Read On]
Celebrity, Communism, Political Correctness, Pop-Culture, Propaganda, The Zeitgeist
“Joan Rivers: Antidote to PC Totalitarianism” is now on WND. An excerpt: WARNING: If you suffer from spineless conformity; a deformation of the personality often euphemized as political correctness—quit reading this column, NOW! If you don’t quite know whether you are thus afflicted, ask yourself this: “Do I police what people say for political propriety? […Read On]
Free Speech, Gender, libertarianism, Propaganda, Race, Racism, Reason
“You’re a racist.” “No, you’re a bigger racist.” “No way; you hang out with Lew Rockwell, Hans Hoppe and Ron Paul; they’re racists, so you’re racist.” What on earth is going on here? Why are serious libertarians engaging in tit-for-tat spats with a twat? She is Cathy something or another, a sally-come-lately libertarian. Justin Raimondo, […Read On]
I find myself having to often defend against libertarian critique of my interest in the U.S. Constitution and the history of the republic. (Yes, imagine making excuses for intellectual curiosity.) I’m fascinated by it all. The disdain for American constitutional history among some libertarians seems to stem from laziness, which has invariably fed an attitude […Read On]