Archive for the ‘national security’ Category
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The Limits of Libertarianism
Posted on July 29, 2011
I like to call myself a Libertarian, but I am really not. I don’t really want government to disappear. While I read The Fountainhead in college, and I admit I...
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The Power of One
Posted on July 25, 2011
It is awfully hard to comprehend what happened in Norway over the weekend. How could one man do so much damage in the name of Christianity? How could that one...
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A Grand Bargain?
Posted on July 20, 2011
I love when the Senate comes up with a grand bargain. It gets all the Washington insiders excited. The pundits love grand bargains. The media goes crazy over grand bargains....
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Reductio Ad Absurdem
Posted on July 7, 2011
Reduced to the absurd. Ideologues on both sides of the philosophical divide fall dangerously into this trap. Conservatives who believe that government does not need to exist are every bit...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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