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American tyranny? Reality and fantasy
Whenever gun control advocates have gone on the offensive, gun owners find themselves in the position of having to explain why they need their firearms. They find themselves in this position especially frequently in the debate over so-called assault weapons. In the minds of gun-control proponents, �??acceptable�?� uses of firearms (hunting, self-defense, target shooting) rarely justify 100 round drum magazines and collapsible stocks; ergo there�??s no good reason to have them.
Would General George Washington Approve Of Today’s Torture Policies?
Our nation’s first president had some direct things to say about torture, but its use in his time was different than its use today. The Senate “torture report” has reopened the debate over the treatment of prisoners under American care. President George Washington, as commander of Colonial forces during the American Revolution, had a fairly straightforward policy when it came to torture.
True Detective, Breaking Bad, And The Sequelization of America
The final act of any successful drama tends to follow a formula: A climactic confrontation resolves the tension built in the first two acts, the action falls as we learn how the players grew from the experience, and finally, the curtain drops. With the advent of TV and film, the viewer lost the dropping curtain, but today’s culture also seems to have a noticeable loss of appreciation for the finality that curtain once symbolized.
Is All Internet Data Created Equal?
A federal court’s recent decision to strike down the FCC’s net neutrality rules has brought the controversial regulation back into the national spotlight. Under the rule, ISPs are required to treat all legal data on the internet without regard to content or user.
Hey Randians, There's More To Life Than Economics
Mike Lee is right, life is not an Ayn Rand novel In an address to the Heritage Foundation entitled “What’s Next for Conservatives”, Senator Mike Lee said, “The conservative vision for America is not an Ayn Rand novel.
Throwing out the Constitutional baby with the shutdown bathwater
It should give us all a little chuckle when the left accuses those on the right of being radical, especially when left-wing writers openly advocate for the scrapping of the U.S. Constitution in mainstream publications. The latest comes in the form of an article by Alex Seitz-Wald for the National Journal.
Why the ‘iPod President’ looks more like the ‘Apple III President’
Ezra Klein’s column lamenting the failure of Barack Obama to deliver the “iPod government” he promised misses the mark. During his first campaign for the presidency, Obama promised, in the words of his friend and advisor Cass Sunstein to “rethink public services and national regulations in ways that will make things far simpler and more user-friendly”. It was believed at the time that this effort would be aided by the use of modern technology in government services.
Obamacare Newspeak: A Poem
If you believe that there is a discrepancy Between reality and what we said about the Affordable Care Act Please remember that the opposite is true According to Valerie Jarrett that’s a FACT. If losing your existing coverage Is tempting you to speak out in defiance Please remember it wasn’t the law that forced you off It was the insurance companies (coming into compliance).
Is the Constitution the problem?
Is the Constitution the problem? The events of the last few weeks have nothing to do with government dysfunction, lack of leadership, or any of the other quack diagnosis the talking heads commonly throw around. What’s happening on Capitol Hill is a symptom of the fact that the type of state we’ve been creating for the past century or so is increasingly at odds with the style of government we have.
Moneyball for Government. Yes, it’s as stupid as it sounds.
Did you hear? It’s called Moneyball for Government and it’s a blueprint for how to solve all of the problems we’re seeing in Washington DC. The plan — written by Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama, and John Bridgeland, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President George W.
First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Scientists
Malthusians keep getting it wrong. In 1999’s The Matrix, Agent Smith, the movie’s chief antagonist, offers the following observation: Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.
Hail To The King!
Dutch King Willem-Alexander captured headlines last week when he announced an end to his nation’s welfare state. In a solid blow to the leftist gut, the king declared that the “classic welfare state of the second half of the 20th century” was “unsustainable in its current form.” It would be replaced, he continued, by a “participation society,” in which people are expected “to make their own choices, to arrange their own lives, and take care of each other.” Wait a second. Monarchy and liberty?
History Returns From Vacation
In 1989, just as Soviet-style Communism was taking its last gasps on the world stage, political scientist Francis Fukuyama authored an essay entitled The End of History? in which he proclaimed that the world was witnessing the decisive and final triumph of what he termed the “Western idea”.
Biden’s Catholicism Informs Him On How To Spend Your Money, But Not His Own.
The bulk of the Catholicism discussion in last night’s debate revolved around how the candidates’ faith inform their positions on abortion. While the conversation was bound to tack in this direction due to the Obama campaign’s insistence on the War on Women meme, it might have caused us to miss something important about Vice President Biden’s relationship with his faith. Here’s what Biden said last night: My religion defines who I am, and I’ve been a practicing Catholic my whole life.
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