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  • Greatest Relevance

    Certainly, the details of the shooter's motivations and actions must be discovered and discussed and certain conclusions made. Nevertheless, his specific motivations are mere details to the issue most relevant to all human action of this sort - such persons behave as they do (1. Because they either lack or are unwilling to empathize with other ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Naumadd on November 17, 2009

  • She was not a libertarian !

    The true libertarian values of INDIVIDUAL liberty, INDIVIDUAL responsibility and LIMITED government control over our private lives and resources have NOTHING to do with Ayn Rand's PRETENSE of ''objectivity'' and ''individualism''. Rand was an authoritarian-minded demagogue masquerading as an advocate of ''free-thinking''. She was a ...
    Posted to Books by sonofeire on November 2, 2009

  • Re: You don't need a weatherman...

    Sir, I am afraid you might be right. I really, really want you to be wrong. I want so much for you to be wrong. By the time I'm allowed to get married, I won't be able to smoke a cigar at the party. I'll miss cigars. Please don't be right. BTW, very clever turn of phrase at the end of your post.
    Posted to The Big Idea by josefski on October 31, 2009

  • Proposed NYC smoking ban in parks is disturbing

    I'm a non-smoker, and a liberal - so generally no tirades against government from me - but I find this proposed ban very disturbing. Saletan makes some excellent points. To which I will add: This proposed ban is not premised on a health consideration. Banning smoking indoors, fine - that's a secondhand smoke - and thus a health - issue. But this ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Oomingmak on September 15, 2009

  • Nothing doing.

    The VAST MAJORITY of gun owners in the USA are not ''gang bangers'' or ''drug lords'' or whatever other colorful labels the Cult Of Gun Grabbing want to apply. The Second Amendment VERY CLEARLY STATES: ''A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by x76 on April 29, 2009

  • in china they prosecute judges for criminal offenses

    BEIJING, March 12 -- China's top judge Wang Shengjun said on Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court will ''improve its education of work ethics'' for judges in a bid to weed out judicial corruption. Wang said judicial corruption has seriously damaged the credibility of the country's judicial system and led to ''very bad'' social ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by KayASieverding on March 15, 2009

  • Keynes' Best Student...

    is what you would have been. However, that's hardly a compliment and your attacks on the Austrian school/ Business Cycle Theory shamefully display a fundamental deficit in your understanding of the theories which you shoot down so whimisically. For instance: ''...excessive money creation or reckless bank lending drives it, maybe it is ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by RationalAustrian on March 13, 2009

  • On the Tiranny of Technology

    Technology is increasingly becoming THE single most disturbing man-made threat of the new millennium. The article arguably confirms the fact that most of the available gadgetry will perform mission critical tasks for any orwellian state.... GPS tracking of all your moves in the physical realm, content transparency in the internet domain, which ...
    Posted to Human Nature by WPaul on January 28, 2009

  • Palestinian tunnels

    You left a valid option out, which would be Israel withdrawing to its 1946 borders. Wander some more. The Jewish Homeland thing is just not working out.
    Posted to Human Nature by x76 on January 16, 2009

  • Why Ban Marriage at All?

    This was an excellent column. However, I would have enjoyed it more had the author addressed why we should ban any marriages at all, more explicitly. Consenting adults should have an almost unlimited right to contract. Marriage is a contract and if there is no direct harm to another individual, there should be no reason to ban it. It seems ...
    Posted to Frame Game by Lojiko on January 10, 2009
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