Monday, October 10th, 2011
Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party
via howconservativesdrovemeaway.blogspot.com
Entries Tagged as 'libertarianism'
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The Godfather on the Social Contract
via i.imgur.com For context, here’s the Elizabeth Warren quote that’s been making the rounds: http://front.moveon.org/the-elizabeth-warren-quote-every-american-needs-to-see
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
American Medical Association was a driving force behind anti-abortion laws
The strongest force behind the drive to criminalize abortion was the attempt by doctors to establish for themselves exclusive rights to practice medicine. They wanted to prevent “untrained” practitioners, including midwives, apothecaries, and homeopaths, from competing with them for patients and for patient fees. The best way to accomplish their goal was to eliminate one [...]
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
So How Is This Different From Armed Robbery?
Earlier this month, police in Oakland County, Michigan raided a medical marijuana dispensary in the town of Oak Park. The deputies came in with guns drawn and bulletproof vests, with at least one wearing a mask. They made no arrests, but they did clean the place out. The confiscated all of the dispensary’s cash on [...]
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Yes, It Is a Police State
Then there’s my experience this past week as I drove home from the airport in Syracuse, New York. The Border Patrol and the State Police had set up a roadblock on the county line about 30 miles from my house and at least 20 miles as the crow flies from the border with Canada. This [...]
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Patriot Act powers may lapse at end of week
A combination of the Senate’s arcane rules and Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) insistence on voting on several controversial amendments may cause the Patriot Act to lapse at the end of the week. The expiration of the law before the passage of an extension would create an upheaval in the law enforcement community which relies on [...]
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Deafening Liberal Silence as the Senate Moves to Extend the Patriot Act
via my.firedoglake.com Under President Bush, liberals would never have been as silent as they are now. There would have been rancorous opposition especially in the blogosphere to extending PATRIOT Act provisions. Liberal talk radio and MSNBC would be talking about the government’s push to maintain extraordinary powers. But, for liberal activists, bloggers, pundits, and politicians, [...]
Monday, May 9th, 2011
San Francisco – one of every 12 apartments is vacant
In San Francisco, one of the toughest places in the country to find a place to live, more than 31,000 housing units — one of every 12 — now sit vacant, according to recently released census data. That’s the highest vacancy rate in the region, and a 70 percent increase from a decade ago. via [...]
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Is Ron Paul More Progressive Than Obama?
Let’s just assume the worst about Paul: that he’s a corporate libertarian in the Reason magazine/Cato Institute mold that would grant Big Business and the financial industry license to do whatever the hell it wants with little in the way of accountability (I call this scenario the “status quo”). Let’s say he dines on Labradoodle [...]
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
Tiny nibbles: The budget cuts in perspective
via facebook.com Via Sean Hastings.
