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Earlier One-Off Post: Top 10 Pet Peeves for Professors (My Edition)
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Here's a list of my top 10 pet peeves as a former professor: http://t.co/qyJhwDN5To
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 5, 2014
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Kudos to the Cincinnati Bengals
From Yahoo Sports:
The Cincinnati Bengals appeared to have moved on from former second-round defensive tackle Devon Still when they cut him this preseason. However, Still has had much bigger and better things on his mind than football. His 4-year-old daughter, Leah, was diagnosed with stage 4 pediatric cancer back in June. The Bengals re-signed him to their practice squad, and the $6,300 weekly salary and medical insurance will go a long way to help Leah. As a member of the practice squad, Still will practice with the team but not travel. That means he has more time to spend by Leah's side.Sweetie, you're a beautiful gift from God; my thought and prayers are with you. I hope that you feel better soon.
Eric Dondero and the Libertarian Republican Blog
Dondero is an interesting story, an ex-staffer for Ron Paul, who himself refers to Dondero as a fired, disgruntled staffer. (I read a lot on this kerfuffle; I will say that it doesn't take years for performance issues to surface.) You may recall during the Ron Paul campaign there was a kerfuffle over Ron Paul's involvement with newsletters bearing his name with some politically incorrect op-eds (which Ron claimed no knowledge of). Dondero came out with a piece on his former boss, suggesting Ron was uncomfortable with Spanish or gays. There were exchanges with a Paul spokesman Jesse Benton, and at one point around 2008 Dondero, who despises Paul's non-interventionist policies, wanted to run against Paul for his congressional seat. If Benton sounds familiar, it's because he had a high-profile in the McConnell reelection campaign and abruptly left the campaign in a shakeup around April. I only knew about the kerfuffle when Dondero made gleeful references to Benton's demise.
I will say that I am not comfortable with the blog's hawkish and nativist perspectives, but there is a kerfuffle on another libertarian blog critical of Dondero, who responds and makes a compelling case of involvement with the Libertarian Party and standard libertarian positions on most domestic policies. Dondero is not a GOP shill; for example, Dondero will often vote for a Libertarian Party candidate if a GOP victory is expected (I believe he lives in the Houston area). One of the reasons I follow the blog is it does a lot on various tight domestic political races, and it often covers European and Australia/New Zealand politics.
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(Being Classically Liberal). (F) "Unregulated Corporate Greed"
"Unregulated....."
This is what Progressives actually believe. They want greedy politicians to protect us from greedy businessmen. So adorable and humorous, but this is unfortunately why we can't have nice things.
The stupid hurts so hard...government can be bought..so make more government to fix it!"Unregulated....."
This is what Progressives actually believe. They want greedy politicians to protect us from greedy businessmen. So adorable and humorous, but this is unfortunately why we can't have nice things.
I call it the "vicious circle of corruption".
(Being Classically Liberal). (F) I'm not sure why this is so hard for Progressives and Democrats to understand. Politicians are in the business of dealing favors and making promises they can't keep.
BCL: Governments invade countries, kill innocents, and mess things up. So we need more government invasions.
The troll doesn't understand the concept of regulatory capture. Never mind the poster boy of regulation-banks--have never been unregulated. There were restrictions against banking that made US banks more volatile than Canadian ones without similar restrictions (unit banking, asset reserves).
As for the imbecilic reductionist argument, he doesn't understand that a leading cause of war is dysfunctional trade policies. Countries generally don't want to go to war with their trading partners. Usually war is divisive and decreases a nation's wealth. In a free market, corporations cannot rely on the government's monopoly of force to compete. Moreover, there are more potent weapons than incompetent regulators, i.e., transparency. He doesn't understand the concept of a vicious circle of corruption.
(Reason). We asked some prominent libertarian writers what they thought about Rand Paul's hawkish turn on ISIL. Here's what they said.
When I read Rand Paul's piece on Time, I went to Tom Woods' FB portal and commented "Rand Paul just f*d up." This is incoherent nonsense and no self-respecting libertarian buys into the gross flip flop. I would like to be there when Ron Paul takes Rand to the woodshed. I think just like George W took a lesson from his Dad's flip-flop on taxes, Rand doesn't want to the pinata of neocons in 2016, so I read this as a preemptive move on the imbecilic isolationist smear. He's running the risk of losing his core supporters, including me, with this nonsense.
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