Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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Despite success creating magnificent supercomputers in Oak Ridge, the NSA realized they could not decode strong encryption in real time. Two responses followed:
1- They are creating an archive in Utah to duplicate ALL traffic on the internet for deciphering selectively at their measure.
2- Work to modify the infrastructure to allow real time manipulation in case of emergency.
Problem is that they are collecting your emails (all of them) and only admit to "interception" when they go back and read them. All without political discussion of the propriety of this policy.