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policies of the Obama administration's so far as fascist! In it I said "Fascism is a political system in which a country is lead by a charismatic leader who has full power to order things about because he (or she) is taken to know best." (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages)
For good reason—openness is a loose idea; a door can be open to a great variety of degrees. But a free society isn't so flexible. You are free if you are the master of your life, if you own it, if you have your right to it fully respected and protected. Otherwise you aren't free and the society in which you live isn't a free one. Ask any former slave whether freedom means not having others intrude on one’s life or whether it means that others intrude only, say, 40 percent. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (6 messages)
well is that people aren't forced to respond to stimuli--they can turn away, refuting the underlying assumptions of what it takes to get them out there to buy stuff! (Read more...) Discuss this Article (0 messages)
leader who has full power to order things about because he (or she) is taken to know best. Obviously this is a mythical sort of regime, with most of its essential features impossible to come by. No such leader exists, period, but there are many who pretend that they are fully qualified. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (7 messages)
executives whose companies didn't manage to be successful, it may appear to be unjust to pay as per the terms of the contract but it isn't. As the saying goes, a promise is a promise. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (39 messages)
they aren't violating anyone's rights? (Read more...) Discuss this Article (1 message)
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that surrounded me despite having hardly any of it myself. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
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the Internet but also on radio and TV. One place where I check things out fairly regularly is PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) TV's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, mainly because I am curious how a program funded to a considerable extent from money taken in taxes handles controversial topics. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (21 messages)
former's--policy vis-a-vis the fiscal mess is that the remedies proposed all impose massive taxation on future generations, people who haven't the ghost of a chance to speak up for themselves. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (10 messages)
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feudal age when it was the rent landowners--mostly monarchs and lords--collected from people, I have met with much resistance. It is mostly based on the widespread belief that without taxation the functions of government could not be paid for. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (13 messages)
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the public interest, the public good, the public welfare and similar allusions to deed and policies that supposedly advance us all. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (9 messages)
is ancient and so complex that hardly anyone commenting makes sense of them, it is very tough to judge. That’s how it is with me and the current upheaval between Israel and Hamas. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (17 messages)
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Columnists don’t just write on anything that pops into their minds but need to do a bit of service to reader-clients. But, if one has a regular venue for one’s columns, it maybe fine, now and then, to indulge oneself with a topic or two that’s more personal. Even these will, of course, aim to please, if only by inviting reader-clients to know a bit of the writer. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (90 messages)
society--is to be limited in its scope. That scope is to secure our rights, just as the American Founders envisioned it. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (14 messages)
and government regimentation--those folks up there in Washington, Sacramento, Brussels, and the like just haven’t clue and thus all they can do when they insist on “doing something” is to muddle about, pose, pretend, or fake. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (2 messages)
serious about admiring President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for how the latter dealt with America’s Great Depression, then America and the world may be in for some very ugly times indeed. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (26 messages)
focused on their proper and properly limited job--namely, the securing or protection of our rights--and they eschewed involvement in the undertakings that's none of their business, there would be less terrorism by far. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (22 messages)
voluntary efforts to lend a hand even while my focus in my writings happens to be mostly on eliminating coercion from human interactions. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (62 messages)
welfare state, in which your individuality is abolished and you are treated as a member of some ant colony or bee hive. You will be conscripted to be part of it all, never mind how sensibly you may figure out to deal with the fiasco. (Read more...) Discuss this Article (3 messages)
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