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Yup… just as there’s a boat for the wicked, there’s also a boat for the good.
Coming up with the list for the “good boat” just isn’t as much fun in general, but if I ever do set up such a boat, I will have to remember to save a seat for Ken Burns.
Just watched him [...]

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Tens of thousands of conservative activists, assembled loonies, birthers, deathers, tenthers, conspiracy theorists, Confederates, libertarians, militia members, haters, and opportunistic Right-wing politicians gathered on the National Mall and around the country for Saturday’s “tea party” protests, and – aside from the freak-show quality of the whole thing – one fact stood out: they were so [...]

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What a fun turn the Republican Party has taken…
Over the weekend, Lindsey Graham was heckled at the South Carolina Republican Convention for urging the Party to embrace moderates who can “win in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.”  Interesting, but not surprising.  Of course, it does make for an odd Senate delegation from South Carolina: Jim DeMint said [...]

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Just an annoyance:
I’ve been watching some of the fallout from the Specter switch on MSNBC and I can’t help but notice a complete disconnect between my definition of the far-right Republican base and the commentators’ definition of the Party’s base. Let me see if I have my facts right: 1) Arlen Specter was being [...]

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I’ve said it before, but not as succinctly as Michael Kinsley. This is what terrifies me about the revolution of funding political campaigns with small, online donations:
The computer revolution has bred a generation of smart loners, many of them rich and some of them complacently Darwinian, convinced that they don’t need society–nor should anyone [...]

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Earlier today, I posted a blurb about some of the movies claimed by the Libbies. Turns out, in the late ’90s, the Orange County Register published a list of the Top 20 libertarian films as determined by the editors of the paper. The criteria they used? They looked for films “that encourage [...]

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I rarely weigh in on social or cultural issues. If all connotations of labels could be removed, I would definitely consider myself a traditionalist. I believe in strong families, in the value of putting family responsibilities above personal desires, and a culture that doesn’t worship at the altar of the individual and their [...]

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I had so much fun researching those posts from December that I haven’t really stopped. Of course, in order to research anti-libertarian movements (majoritarianism, communitarianism, populism, or, as the Nolan Chart dubs it, totalitarianism) you have to actually read up on the thought process of the libbies themselves. I would pretend this was [...]

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It’s always easy to be against something bad – and it’s hard to argue that a $700 Billion check to compensate for greed, corruption, and a failed Republican (and New Democrat) philosophy is anything other than really bad. There isn’t another way to look at it, and in fairness, nobody has really tried. [...]

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Just took the political philosophy quiz at www.Issues2000.org, and I’m apparently considered a “liberal populist” – who’d a thunk it? Guess it beats when the Libbie quiz called me a statist/totalitarian.
Oh, apparently an economic score below 40% means “you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth.”  My economic [...]

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