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Among the standard bleats of those who want [to be heard asking for] less taxes on everyone, and want to actually have less taxes on on the bleater personally, is a sort of pugnacious Babbitty claim that “I earned my money by my own efforts and when the government takes it from me it’s theft.” [...]
Archive for the ‘Conservatism’ Category
September 18th, 2010
Prof. Henderson’s judgment continues to fail him, and he apparently went up against Brad Delong, something the really smart and really wise and really well-informed do with great caution. Who was it that rush in where angels fear to tread, again? Remember the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail? Brad attached a rocket engine [...]
September 18th, 2010
Through Glenn Reynolds, whither I wandered because of Mark’s post about something else entirely, I came upon this truly amazing pasticcio of mendacity, ignorance, and small-minded cupidity. [UPDATE 20-21/IX: the original post was taken down; instead there's this and a cache of the original post is here.] It’s worth a close look because the author [...]
September 14th, 2010
Christine O’Donnell’s politics are hilarious: she thinks we should go around telling people masturbation is wrong. Thing is, there’s a Supreme Court justice who’s very angry that we can no longer make it illegal.
June 13th, 2010
Category: Conservatism
Glibertarians can’t tell the difference between owning a chattel and owning a piece of land. They’re not the same, in common sense or common law.
May 11th, 2010
The 7% reduction in US carbon emissions last year still does not put the US on a sustainable path.
March 27th, 2010
The slow drip of acid on the Catholic church, and especially on the pope, from the daily revelations of non-feasance, malfeasance, and active coverup is going to go on corroding the machinery, and burning the gilt off the façade, for a long time. We haven’t even started to hear the horror stories screaming to be [...]
January 12th, 2010
Whatever Manzi thinks, Europe does not stop at the Urals,.
