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@Pontifex One-time Jesuit novice Gov Jerry Brown recently signed assisted suicide law and mandate on pregnancy centers to promote abortion.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) October 13, 2015
Catholic-in-Name Jerry Brown refused to defend California's traditional marriage law as AG,.signed unconstituitonal pregnancy center mandate
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) October 13, 2015
@Pontifex I wonder if "Christian" clerics ever "blessed" Nazi gas chambers? https://t.co/sShJRRasvY
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) October 13, 2015
We need to keep the statue of Thomas Jefferson on campus and have some University of Missouri students removed. http://t.co/twUBkmG8dR
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) October 13, 2015
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Rand Paul on Economic Policy
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(FEE). People who rarely see an immigrant can easily scapegoat them for everything wrong in the world. Personal experience doesn't get in the way of fantasy. But people who actually see immigrants have trouble escaping the fact that immigrants do hard, dirty jobs that few Americans want — at a realistic wage, anyway. http://at.fee.org/1js6Trw
For the millionth time.. ILLEGAL immigration is what people have a problem with.
And the pro amnesty crowd knows it..
For the millionth time, restrictions on the natural right to migrate are unconstitutional, you morally corrupt bastard trolls.
(Reason). Government Internet is coming to a city near you. The only question is if anything can be done to stop the politicians scheming to bring it.
You mean government that actually invented internet and run it for a looong time is actually bad at running it? Please explain. Maybe Reason should do the homework and learn where internet came from...
No, the Internet did not boom until the government privatized it. Apparently you think that monopolistic fascists who steal from the pockets of taxpayers to cover operational deficits that would have a private-sector business go bankrupt will eventually get into the black? Talk about believing in fairy tales, you economically illiterate fascist. https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-myth-that-government-created-the-internet/
(Rand Paul 2016). She's been completely irresponsible and has no business holding high office ever again.
Hillary looks good in stripes; she better get used to it.
(follow-up on an earlier Pro-Life Libertarian post comment, where I got trolled by a couple of "progressives". My original comment: Ah, the economic idiocy and false choices of genocidal Statists. Yes, unless you support policies promoting morally corrupt State dependency funded by redistributive pillage, i.e., so-called positive rights, things that the State must do on your behalf, you don't support natural/negative rights, things that the State or others cannot unduly constrain of the individual. Positive rights don't amount to anything if one doesn't not respect the unalilenable right to live. Of course, the free maket, unlike the corrupt monopolistic State, provides competition and variety for consumers, and voluntary charities work out of moral duty, not from an obligation to the State.)
Yes [forum moderator responded liberal trolls gotta troll; they basically mocked the concept of a free market]. Fascists xxxxx don't have a clue. The market is intrinsically competitive.It's only the corrupt dealings of the State trying to manipulate the economy. The State, with all all-encompassing regulatory madness, cannot deal with the dynamic market. They will be co-opted by corporate and union interests that will conveniently write the regulations for them, de facto empowering those similarly corrupt entities that they cannot impose on the market without force. Fascist xxxx talks corporatism, but does not understand it. One need only look at the Export-Import Bank, which leftists like Elizabeth Warren want to prop up and libertarians and conservatives want to keep shut down. Cf, e.g., http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22594
EmailGate shows a classic example. Blumenthal, one of fascist Hillary Clinton's friends, was representing the interests of contractors wanting to do business with the new Libyan state.
Ronald what a stupendous display of absolute ignorance,you apparently have no clue what fascism is. You must have learned your history from Glenn Beck.
Maybe need to read some Locke, gives you a good idea what happens when there is no govt. or how about examine modern day failed states where the free market reigns, like say Somalia. Free market is not free, it creates a small wealthy class who uses its economic power to create military and political power to rule over everyone else. As long as there is economic inequality there will be political inequality.
Typical fascist response. It's clear that you are too retarded to research things you write about---really, is the best you idiots can come up with is the trite Somalia line?
No, you idiotic know-nothings confuse certain trappings of 20th century Eurofascism with economic fascism. Educate yourself, moron: DiLorenzo has a good essay on economic fascism on Rockwell's website, or you can try this essay from FEE: http://fee.org/freeman/economic-fascism/.
You are too pathetic an ideologue to have understood the economic history of the US. You are too retarded to remember how transient fame and economic power can be: less than 20 years ago, anti-trust regulators were after Microsoft; Nokia and Blackberry were dominating the cellphone market; and AOL was dominating ISP's. Ted Turner was worth $10B on paper. So according to you, these parties were part of the corrupt elite.
I see you're someone who only views concepts in a bubble. If you give humans "freedom" there will be ones who rise above the rest and then work to take away the freedom of others. This is normal human history at work. Libertarian policies will stop the government from taking away natural rights, but they'll also not allow the government to protect those rights from others. In the end, a libertarian world would not turn out anything like the libertarians envision, because they have no way to handle natural human greed.
The free market is non-ideological. Except for things like fraud, the use of force, or breach of contract, people are free to transact with others. Equality of opportunity does not imply equality of outcome. Personally, if someone makes a profit out of providing a good or service cheaper than I could do it for myself, it's win-win--he may make a nice profit, but my living standard has improved. I don't want the government restricting my choices because some morally corrupt envious asshole thinks my favored vendor is making "too much".
I overlooked the claim "tthey'll also not allow the government to protect those rights from others." No, libertarians would insist that any minimally necessary government protects the natural rights of all (e.g., from lynch mob attacks). The problem is, we think any government has a minimal footprint to address things like common defense and a justice system to enforce contracts, conflicts of rights, etc. We do not believe in positive rights--what the government must do for us, e.g., education, guaranteed income, healthcare, etc.
And as far as fascism goes, there are plenty who don't buy into the whole left/right political paradigm. If you falsely label all liberals as left wing and all conservatives as right wing, you would have a hard time understanding progressivism as being a fascist movement. However, there are plenty of educated opinions making the case that liberalism has it roots in fascism.
I don't agree with Jonah Goldberg on everything, and only reference this as an example of someone making the case for liberal fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism
Response to moderator, re: Goldberg: There are confounded constructs. For example, Pat Buchanan is as mercantilistic as the left-fascists Obama and Clinton. American conservatism is arguably a traditionalist approach to classical (economic) liberalism. What you term liberalism is really modern/social liberalism, which basically expands on positive vs negative rights/liberty (positive meaning obligations on the State to provide, negative being constraints on the government's authority to override individual rights). The "Old Right" coalition resisting the fascist FDR's policies included a coalition of conservatives (Robert Taft et al.) and classical liberals.
I also distinguish conservative from right-wing authoritarianism. Of course, I see the economic nationalism of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump as alternate takes on fascism. I routinely call Sanders a left-fascist and Trump a right-fascist. They operate on different slants of security, but both are anti-immigrant and anti-trade. There's nothing conservative or libetarian about Trump; over the past week, he's justified the use of eminent domain.
No, your thinking is still too short-sighted. The free market cannot last, because eventually someone will acquire the power and influence and will make efforts to secure that power and influence. They will take advantage of their successes and go to harm the success of others. How do you think we got to where we were today? We had a much more libertarian approach to business, and then the robber-barons happened.
The free market is an idealistic utopian view of an economy. It's about as workable as true communism. Both only work as theory, and will never work in the real world.
Knock off this crackpot anti-market bullshit, retard. The free market simply refers to removing anti-market restrictions between supply and demand. Past success is not indicative of future success. Innovation can upend an existing market; for example, in the ridesharing economy, we have seen competition to the taxi industry; food trucks and carts are alternatives to restaurants. 3D printing makes it possible to create one of a kind objects, like prosthetic limbs, without a huge investment in factories. Web publishing makes it economical for people to publish hundreds vs. thousands of copies. Newspapers and national television networks are losing customers to the Internet economy. If you're a small business offering a novel product, you can market that product globally vs. your local community. This is not "idealist" or "utopian"--you just need the Statists TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY.
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A separate comment about the myth of the robber baron. Troll, next time read something other than liberal propaganda bullshit: https://mises.org/library/truth-about-robber-barons
Choose Life: More on Cute Babies
The study was conducted on women between the14th and 39th week of pregnancy, and found that 87% of unborn babies responded to music by moving their head and limbs, while 50% responded by widening their jaw and sticking out their tongue as far as possible.
The researchers said the following about their findings: “Fetal response begins at 16 weeks, with statistically significant variations throughout the pregnancy. The further on the mother is in the pregnancy, the more striking the facial movements. Response is different for each fetus, with different response levels each time the music is played.”... The video below shows an unborn baby responding to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita in A Minor by opening its mouth as if he or she was trying to sing.
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Roberta Flack (with Peabo Bryson), "You're Looking Like Love To Me"
