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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Ken Burns gets a seat on the good boat
Posted in History, Libertarianism, Media, Politics, tagged Ayn Rand, Bedford Falls, FDR, Frank Capra, Ken Burns, Mr. Potter, New Deal, Norman Rockwell on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The coming extinction of protests
Posted in History, Libertarianism, Politics, tagged 1960s, Cindy Sheehan, extremists, Fox News, International ANSWER, Iraq war, protests, tea party on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Happy Days are Here Again
Posted in Libertarianism, Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Club for Growth, Dick Cheney, Jim DeMint, Kentucky, libertarian, Lindsey Graham, Mark Sanford, Michael Steele, Objectivist, Rand Paul, Ron Paul on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
The Far Right
Posted in Libertarianism, Media, Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Arlen Specter, Chris Matthews, Club for Growth, Herdrik Hertzberg, Howard Dean, Michael Smerconish, Mike Huckabee, MSNBC, Pat Toomey on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Top 10 Populist Movies
Posted in Libertarianism, Majoritarianism, Media, Politics, Populism, tagged Dave, Erin Brockovich, Field of Dreams, It's a Wonderful Life, libertarian films, Norma Rae, populist film, Roger and Me, Seabiscuit, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Wizard of Oz, Wall Street on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Can I be a pacifist in the culture wars?
Posted in History, Libertarianism, Majoritarianism, Politics, Religion, tagged gay marriage, Harvey Milk, Prop 6, Prop 8, Rick Warren, traditionalist on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
I never liked The Matrix
Posted in Libertarianism, Politics, Populism, tagged Ayn Rand, Free State Project, H.L. Mencken, Iowa, It's a Wonderful Life, Libertarians, New Hampshire, Nolan Chart, Ron Paul, Serenity, The Matrix, Traffic, V for Vendetta on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Grown-ups and Mavericks
Posted in Libertarianism, Politics, Populism, tagged bail-out, Blue Dog Democrat, Carol Shea Porter, Club for Growth, Dennis Kucinich, House Republicans, Jim Marshall, libertarianism, New Deal, New Democrat, populism, Ron Paul, Wall Street on September 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
Least surprising quiz result ever
Posted in Libertarianism, Politics, Populism, tagged liberal, libertarian, political ideology, Populist on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
