Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
Raoul Vaneigem
Earlier One-Off Post: Joe Klein and Obama's Leadership Shortage
Rant of the Day: Justin Amash on the CIA Torture Report via FB
It's with a heavy heart that I've begun reading the CIA torture report released by the Senate intelligence committee. It documents inhumane acts committed by representatives of our government. Members of our intelligence community have extraordinarily difficult jobs, and the rank-and-file employees serve our country with distinction. It should sadden all of us that a few in the intelligence community have cast a shadow on the important work of so many.
Most troubling for a free country such as ours is the repeated, perhaps systematic deception committed by senior public servants against elected officials who are entrusted with supervising their work. The nature of intelligence work requires certain secrecy, but it is unconscionable for senior appointees to hide essential details of interrogation from Congress and even the president. We have seen before the tendency of some leadership in the intelligence community to obscure their controversial activities in a way that prevents effective oversight. The habit of keeping watchdogs in the dark must end.
Tweet of the DayThe United States remains a beacon of liberty to the world. The horrific acts of a few, committed in secret, are not consistent with our values. But making those acts public and calling those responsible to account can heal our country and reaffirms what's best about it.
Cherokee Lizzie Warren, in her hypocritical,illiterate description of the House GOP as a gang of anarchists, attacks the Tea Party bogeyman.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 12, 2014
Cherokee Lizzie Warren: for years now we've heard a small minority in this country rail for more government, even with unsustainable debts.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 12, 2014
Cherokee Lizzie Warren and her fellow economic fascists continue to occupy the government and feed the vicious circle of failure.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) December 12, 2014
Economics and It's a Wonderful LifeGuest Blog Post: Libertarian Republican post on Palin's warning on funding Obama's recent executive order on immigration
"Super Hot Chic who just got an Independent elected to Alaska Governor, warns Republicans end funding for Illegal Invaders, or you'll face the wrath of American voters in 2016"
Let's point out that the reason Palin went out to get Parnell was because he rolled back her surtax on energy producers, one of the few of this demagogue's "achievements" before she quit her first term in office to exploit her failed VP candidacy. Her ethically repugnant anti-immigrant populist rhetoric is inconsistent with our national immigrant roots and a pro-liberty, limited government perspective.Remy Is Back: With the Latest Hillary Commercial....
Legal Plunder AKA Civil Forfeiture
Facebook Corner
(Libertarian Girl). Dear Elizabeth Warren and the left,We libertarians and especially anarcho-capitalists, would like you to sincerely know how ridiculous you sound when you call Republicans "anarchists." It's truly gut-busting hilarious to us. That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
yes but libertarianism began in france and was economically socialist. wikipedia won't tell you that, but history books will... idiots
No, libertarianism is based on primacy of the unalienable nature of liberty, something that predated the French revolution. Locke, for instance, also recognized life and property. The word was first coined by William Belsham in the late eighteenth century, but was co-opted by late nineteenth-century French/international property restrictive leftists/anarchists. At the time liberalism reflected the expanded notion of individual rights, but in America by the twentieth century liberalism had mutated to a more expansive government-enforced social perspective that compromised individual liberty and property rights; libertarianism was termed as a continuation of the ideals of classical liberalism with a minimal State footprint
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