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Maybe “Ohh Baby” Is Code For Something

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To all the wingnut assholes who thought we just had to give the government these super new powers to eavesdrop on Americans’ telephone calls or else we’re-all-gonna-die-OMG-OMG! (yes, Robert Novak, I’m talking to you), I hope you’re proud of yourselves

Socialism’s Lying Promise

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Back in February, I wrote of my appreciation for and debt to Ayn Rand’s novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’. Its message was seminal in the development of my political philosophy and practice. To try and condense over 750 pages into a blog post is impossible.

Padgett’s Pedigree

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David Oatney wants to know who U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett’s political influences are:

Party People in the House

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John Norris Brown on Democratic Party candidate selection:

A few months ago, I would have predicted the superdelegates to go with the most electable candidate, then unquestionably Barack Obama. Given whats happened since then, I don’t know if he can still play that card.

For Some it Begins With Williams F. Buckley, Jr.

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There are a pair of satirical memoirs of the libertarian movement by Jerome Tuccille, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand and It Still Begins with Ayn Rand. For me, at least, it began with William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley was, of course, considered conservative, not libertarian, but it was a distinction without a difference as could be seen, for example, in his 1995 statement to the New York Bar Association on the «War on Drugs»:

Shouldn't non believers just shut up?

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Do we really need to tolerate the political voice of non believers? Isn’t it okay to marginalize them? After all, they are an insignificant minority, right?

What we today call neo conservatism is a political philosophy

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