January 2011
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drooling half wits
Libertarians generally prefer less democracy. This was the message embedded in Frederic Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and here is a good expression of it from Arnold Kling.
Libertarians would agree with Thoma-Little-Rawls that disputes must be settled peacefully. However, we would not agree that every issue must be settled democratically. In fact, we would suggest that the fewer ...
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Kevin Drum and the legacy of Mother Jones
The following comment was posted at Mother Jones:
Mr. Drum what you say your values are with respect to labor in the abstract is very different than your policy positions. Consider your post Liberalism and Big Business: In that post you complain that unions spend too much time negotiating work rules and not enough time negotiating over wages and benefits. You write as if work rules come...
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No place for violent rhetoric
Jay Ostrich’s op-ed on the shooting in Tucson is a sad commentary on the state of personal responsibility among tea party conservatives in our society. The grim facts are these: a mentally ill young man committed a heinous act of political violence that lead to the death and severe injury of innocent people. An important lesson of this tragedy is that we all have a personal responsibility...