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"
Comments
Anyone remember Cambodia? 2 million brutally killed under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1977/78, and the United States did nothing.
The slaughter in Afghanistan, of mostly women and children, if we pull out too soon, will make Cambodia look like a walk in the park.
Scott Getty looks like he's got a nice young girl there. Wonder how he would feel if the Islamists invade the U.S. and force her to wear a burka from head to toe?
Hey, it's "non-interventionism" don't ya know???
Father of fallen Long Island Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. pleads to end war in Afghanistan
"'Get the rest of those boys out of there,' Buckley Sr. said. 'He had only four months left on his tour. There’s no purpose for us being there.'”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/father-fallen-long-island-marine-lance-cpl-gregory-buckley-jr-pleads-war-afghanistan-article-1.1135077