December 2011
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All That's Legal Is Not Right; All That's Illegal...
letterstomycountry:
Statehate recently voiced frustration with those who would conflate the morality of a law with the existence of a law, i.e. “It’s bad because it’s illegal! It’s illegal because it’s bad!”
The moribund infirmity of this line of thinking cannot stand up to even the most tepid analysis, such that I think it unnecessary to address in any depth. But as I was thinking about all...
November 2011
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It's not even about whether or not he's guilty,...
good-gollymissmolly:
You can think he’s guilty, he might be guilty. But the fact remains he has the right to be innocent until proven guilty, the right of habeas corpus, and the right of due process. He has received none of these.
Why doesn’t that scare anyone else?
I’m on an antiwar email discussion group for Come Home America (check it out if you’re not familiar with them),...
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Deficits DO matter during a recession -- perhaps...
NOTE: skybarn’s original reblog of me seems to be gone, but I swear it was real (and is reproduced faithfully below) when I started writing this response, and I don’t want to throw away my work now.
skybarn:
hipsterlibertarian:
[Super Committee/trigger cuts stuff]
I think that worrying about deficits in a heinous recession is stupid.
Alas, not so. Here’s why:
Take a look...
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Ron Paul gets support from unlikely places →
statehate:
Bruce Ferguson, an electrical engineer at Lockheed Martin who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, said he thinks he would “most likely” lose his job under a Paul administration.
That didn’t stop him from giving Paul $2,500, the maximum individual contribution allowed in the primary.
“I think Ron Paul has lots of good ideas and I support him 100 percent, and if it hurts me personally — he’s...
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"There’s been a lot of controversy around two... →
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THROWBACK: The first blog post I ever wrote.
Titled “Special Constitutional Privileges for Dogs?” this was my first blog post ever published on the first iteration of the Young Americans for Liberty website. The link in the text, of course, no longer works. Enjoy:
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is designed to reserve the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against...
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Tanks in Horse Country
This post was originally published on my blog. You can go there to comment if you want to make a lengthier reply sans reblog.
The header of the website for Lenco Armored Vehicles features two waving American flags and the slogan “Protecting our nation’s defenders.” A little lower down the page, we learn the Lenco is the country’s top manufacturer of “tactical armored security vehicles.” A...
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“Here’s your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible...”
– Charley Reese (h/t libertarians)
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"I would privatize the TSA"
stfuconservatives:
stfusexists:
Yeah, Rick Perry, because it’s already doing AWESOME at not violating anyone’s rights as a government agency. How are Blackwater and Haliburton doing in Iraq and Afghanistan again? Still AWESOME SAUCE?
I love how “private sector” is always the answer to everything. Always.
-R
To be fair, before 9/11 airport security was operated by private firms hired by...
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“America is no longer based on markets and capitalism, instead our economy is...”
– Robert Johnson of the “Patriotic Millionaires,” the group of very wealthy people calling for higher taxes on the rich, is absolutely right here.
What he fails to mention or realize is that having the 1% contribute a little more to their own bailouts, subsidies, and war profiteering is...
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“If somebody looks out and sees a Ford Crown Victoria sitting out there, they may...”
– Why do America’s cops need an armored tank? - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Auto Tech - msnbc.com
America’s most in-demand police vehicle is a 10-officer 16,000-pound armored tank that takes bullets like Superman and drives 80 mph. The federal government buys dozens each year for...
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Hilarious: "Ron Paul. The Young Hipsters Vote" →
This is highly amusing to me for obvious reasons. The article itself:
Ron Paul is a hipster’s dream. He’s the vinyl section of the record store. He’s the rare gem at Goodwill.
Paul wants to legalize drugs (not just marijuana, all drugs) and keep the government out of Trust Funds. He’s a Libertarian in the purest sense, and he’s attracting a young urban demographic that’s tired of the same...
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Taking the words right out of my mouth.
cerebralicious:
bethefoodoflove:
hipsterlibertarian:
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The Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
Are you really so dense that you don’t understand that personal property (commodities and basic goods) is significantly different from private property (private, guarded ownership of a means of production)? The...
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“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
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reallyfoxnews asked: Really, Fox News is back in action! Spread the word? :)
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On not doing your research. →
tideofthought:
bethefoodoflove:
hipsterlibertarian:
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The Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
Are you really so dense that you don’t understand that personal property (commodities and basic goods) is…
Ironic that conservatives/libertarians/anti-OWS people latch onto one thing the Daily Show has done...
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On not getting the joke.
bethefoodoflove:
hipsterlibertarian:
[video]
The Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
Are you really so dense that you don’t understand that personal property (commodities and basic goods) is significantly different from private property (private, guarded ownership of a means of production)? The two terms...
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WatchThe Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
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BREAKING NEWS: Bipartisan Amendment Calls for... →
From the Senate press release:
Ten years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, more than one hundred thousand American troops remain in that nation, providing military and security assistance to the Afghanistan government. A bipartisan group of senators today offered an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill to urge the president to accelerate the timetable for transitioning to...
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Gitmo Costs $800K/Year Per Detainee
cynthiayildirim:
Mother Jones: The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171 captives by Obama administration reckoning.
That’s more than 30 times the cost of keeping a captive on...
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“Romney’s statement is foolish in a number of ways. First of all, it sets him up...”
– Eunomia (via azspot)
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OWS Protesters: Why the camping?
I wrote this at the bottom of a question I was answering earlier, but it hasn’t gotten any responses, so I’ll give it its own post because I am legitimately curious:
Can someone explain why the camping is seen as necessary? Why would it be a problem for people to just be there all day, every day, but not set up housekeeping? I get that it’s probably partly a money thing, but...
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twofortuesday asked: Dear Bonnie, I appreciate all you do and I hope you will continue fighting for my rights.
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birdmechanical asked: What is your opinion to government kicking our OWS from parks? There's been a stronger vein of libertarianism from conservatives, and I understand they may disagree with the content, but I'm surprised at their support of them wanting government to shut them down for whatever reason. There's this idea of supporting rights and avoiding government meddling, but suddenly people are...
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“My advice: leave the young people alone and they’ll find out that they prefer...”
– Ron Paul (via kendraware)
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WatchHerman Cain clearly indicates he hasn’t the foggiest idea of what went down in Libya. Especially at the beginning, his response is akin to when a child has to recite something from memory or answer a test question verbally and, having not studied at all, they try to coerce the teacher into verifying that they’re heading in the right direction.
As the source for this video put it,...
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“It is not the case that capitalism “encourages greed,” though we hear this...”
– Tom Woods (via laliberty)
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the-cold-revolution asked: Why don't you tumble more?