An actual conversation I had on Facebook (verbage may not be exact): ——— Him: The only way we can prevent more tragedies like this is to completely ban guns! Me: Well, we’ve already banned MURDER, but that didn’t seem to help. But I’m sure one more law will fix everything; criminals are all about obeying …
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Taking Resposibilty for Your Fellow Man
I was watching an on-the-street interview with one of the “Wall Street Occupiers” yesterday, and he summed up his philosophy by stating that “we just believe that the more fortunate should take responsibility for their fellow man”. This pretence of compassion is one of the most often-repeated appeals of the Socialist, but the problems with …
The Tea Partier and the CEO
I have seen an image being passed around several friends’ walls on Facebook, and I’m sure you’ve seen it, too: an evil, grinning man in a suit holding a cookie, next to a joke in which he (a corporate Chief Executive Officer) takes 11 out of 12 cookies on a plate, and then warns the …
The High Road
So, the Libertarian Party has been making a stink on Facebook about what a terrible blow for personal liberty it is that California didn’t legalize marijuana this time around. This is one of the several reasons that, although I describe myself as a libertarian, I will never associate myself with the Libertarian Party.While I don’t …
Ethics and Global Climate Change: A Rebuttal
As I mentioned on Facebook, my race to get this to my professor in time for drill weekend led me to fudge some page numbers in the citations. I’ve never had the time since to adequately fix them, so I’ve simply removed the offending citations. The remainder of my paper is below: Stephen Gardiner, “Ethics …
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"It’s Just My Scientist Against Your Scientist"
In a recent discussion on the topic of abortion, I linked to a webpage from Princeton illustrating that, scientifically speaking, life begins at conception. The response to this was, “Well, I can pull up scientists who say just the opposite, so you’re really just playing ‘It’s My Scientist Against Your Scientist.” My response: Go ahead–I …
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The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
In 1920, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. the United States. This case was to overturn the judgment of the District Court of the Western State of New York, which had made a judgment against the plaintiff based on secondary evidence. This secondary evidence had been gathered based on earlier evidence which …
Damned Selfish Conservatives!
Recently on Facebook, I came across the question: “Do conservatives ever care about anything except their own money?” Here is my response: If American conservatives were ever primarily concerned with money, that period ended with the ascent of the New Right in 1980. The concern of conservatives today is FREEDOM–specifically, those freedoms won by the …
Hardly Historic
So, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC and others are reporting that on Sunday night, the House of Representatives passed an “historic” health care bill. In point of fact, the is nothing historic about this bill. From the Soviet Constitution (1936): Article 42. Citizens of the USSR have the right to health protection. …
When You Get Angry…
Starting today, and progressing until either Obamacare’s full effect in 2014 or its hopeful repeal, you will notice changes in your insurance. First, it is by definition no longer insurance; that is, a back-up investment to cover the expense of potential future problems. From now on, what we call “health insurance” is really a government …
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