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2012-01-06T05:30:55-05:00

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Paul’s newsletters and the changing tactics of libertarianism

Last updated on: January 6, 2012 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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Libertarian Steve Horwitz explains the context of those Ron Paul newsletters with a fascinating survey of the history and the varying strategies of that movement: The attempt to court the right through appeals to the most unsavory sorts of arguments was a conscious part of the “paleolibertarian” strategy that Lew Rockwell and Murray Rothbard cooked up in the late 1980s. . . . Classical liberalism started as a movement of the left, with folks like J.S. Mill being our standard... Read more

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2012-01-05T06:00:49-05:00

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President Obama flouts Congress

Last updated on: January 5, 2012 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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The President is not only planning to campaign against Congress. He is evidently going to govern against Congress as well. He has said that he is going to start implementing his programs by executive order. Now he has pulled something that seems to me to be extremely radical. As a way to get around Congressional refusal to approve some people he has wanted to appoint to office–including someone to head an especially controversial new consumer protection bureau–he made three “recess”... Read more

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2012-01-05T05:55:03-05:00

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Political developments

Last updated on: January 5, 2012 at 5:55 am By Gene Veith

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Michele Bachmann Drops Out of Presidential Race – ABC News. If her 6% were to go to Santorum, he’d be a big winner in the Iowa caucus. Won’t her fans go to him rather than to Romney? Rick Perry will stay in the race for now. He went back to Texas to consider his next move, but he announced that he will run in South Carolina. What I want to know is how a state governor can just take off... Read more

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2012 Presidential Election

2012-01-05T05:30:11-05:00

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No more Narnia movies?

Last updated on: January 5, 2012 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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The prospects for more Narnia movies in the near future are not good, as Walden Media, which produced the first three, has lost the rights to the novels. Fans of popular book series The Chronicles of Narnia have been left in limbo over when, or even if, they will see a new movie from the franchise on the big screen. Walden Media, which produced the first three Narnia films – “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (2005), “Prince Caspian”... Read more

2012-01-04T16:10:58-05:00

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Romney wins Iowa by 8 votes

Last updated on: January 4, 2012 at 4:10 pm By Gene Veith

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Rick Santorum surged into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucus votes, the difference being a mere 8 votes. Ron Paul came in third. Here are the results, with the raw numbers and the percentages: Mitt Romney 30,015 24.6% Rick Santorum 30,007 24.5% Ron Paul 26,219 21.4% Newt Gingrich 16,251 13.3% Rick Perry 12,604 10.3% Michele Bachmann 6,073 5.0% Jon Huntsman 745 0.6% Others 341 0.3% via Iowa Caucus results, visits... Read more

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2012 Presidential Election

2012-01-04T06:00:50-05:00

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A Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod

Last updated on: January 4, 2012 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Chaplain Mike at Internet Monk converted to Lutheranism, something we discussed at length not too long ago. Many of us were dismayed that we went the route of the ELCA rather than the more conservative synods (LCMS, WELS, ELS). He addresses that, with reference to our discussions here, in a recent post entitled The Post-Evangelical Path and Wilderness Update. One reason he said in that latter post is that he couldn’t join the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod because we insist on... Read more

2012-01-04T05:30:06-05:00

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The exotic and sinister world of Iowa

Last updated on: January 4, 2012 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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You’ve got to read Mollie Hemingway’s take down of that article in The Atlantic, in which University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom ridicules the state that pays his salary for being religious, for having so many farmers, for eating casseroles, and other rather normal qualities that he finds shocking. I’ll just quote Mollie’s introduction, with its great story from her father, but you’ll want to read the whole thing: My dad used to tell me a story about a... Read more

2012-01-03T06:00:18-05:00

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The case against Ron Paul

Last updated on: January 3, 2012 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Conservative blogger Michael Gerson accuses Ron Paul of trying to completely undo the legacy of the Republican party and gives a litany of reasons to oppose him: No other recent candidate hailing from the party of Lincoln has accused Abraham Lincoln of causing a “senseless” war and ruling with an “iron fist.” Or regarded Ronald Reagan’s presidency a “dramatic failure.” Or proposed the legalization of prostitution and heroin use. Or called America the most “aggressive, extended and expansionist” empire in... Read more

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2012-01-03T05:45:25-05:00

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From giveaway to takeaway

Last updated on: January 3, 2012 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Economy columnist Robert Samuelson sees our government having to transition from a “giveaway” mode, which dominated over the last half century with politicians doling out benefits and tax breaks, to a “takeaway” mode, in which many of such goodies have to be taken away. Samuelson says, however, that the politics of doing so are just not possible. Any resolution of the budget impasse must repudiate, at least partially, the past half-century’s politics. Conservatives look at the required tax increases and... Read more

2012-01-03T05:30:32-05:00

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China to put a man on the moon

Last updated on: January 3, 2012 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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China, the new America: China has declared its intention to land an astronaut on the moon, in the first official confirmation of its aim to go where Americans last set foot nearly 40 years ago. While Chinese scientists have previously discussed the possibility of a manned lunar mission, a government white paper published on Thursday is the first public government document to enshrine it as a policy goal. China will “conduct studies on the preliminary plan for a human lunar... Read more

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