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Does Christian Love call for taxes to fund social programs?
John Mark Reynolds thinks not, in Love Your Neighbor and Don’t Tax Him. Key graphs, more at the link. Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has the right to force other people to...
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John Locke and Thomas Paine, where are you today?
Lately I’ve reviewed John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. You may be tempted to skip Locke’s first Treatise, believing it to be a now-irrelevant attack on the...
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Claiming your rights? You don’t have them anymore.
The new Miranda non-warning given by airport TSA: In short: You do not have the right to remain silent. You do not have the right to ASK if you have the right to remain silent. You do not have the...
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Killing the patient with care
An earlier version of this was posted Oct 21, 2008. It has been edited slightly to reflect current conditions, but it is basically accurate still. ____________________________________ The patient...
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America abdicates under Obama
I rarely quote an entire post by someone else, but this is so clearly argued that I have nothing to add. The major media’s failure to provide this kind of analysis is another reason it deserves to go...
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“Not yours to give”
A friend alerted me to a fascinating excerpt from a book on Davy Crockett. While some dispute the authenticity of the passage, it has never been proved false, and it does fit with what we know of...
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California Dreamin’
Speaking of California’s budget crisis, which was created purely by state overspending, HUGE increases in spending that far outstripped population growth since 1990, George Will tells it like it is....
View ArticleThe Spiritual Poverty of Socialism? Part I
In a brilliant challenge to social theorist Charles Murray, Greg Forster points to the incompleteness of Murray’s argument that socialism is spiritually negative on moral grounds. Faced with Charles...
View ArticleUse your imagination
We do have a Constitution in the USA, sort of. We ignore it sometimes. Well, to be more accurate, the Left ignores it sometimes, and gets away with it whenever possible. There is, for example, a 2nd...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with the electorate? Nothing, this time.
In the 2008 elections, a bit over 13 million people voted in California. Obama won about 8 million votes, while McCain won about 5 million. On May 19, 2009, California held a special election to...
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