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• Libby Spencer: Les - I think we all agree that blogging is more effective in swaying opinion and good point about civil disobedience and civil rights. That was a hug...
• Su: While I don't agree with Chomsky that right now the best option is to strengthen the central government I do agree that it remains an option. As C...
• Jim Henley: Well I feel better....
• buermann: I don't know if "ideologically committed" is a possible way to describe somebody so brazenly dishonest. Look at what there is of a record: she raised...
• Mona: This is so, so depressing, and if Palin causes McCain to win, I want to know from my still-GOP libertarian brothers and sisters, how they can justify ...
• Devin Finbarr: Less and Libby, What evidence from history do you have that a libertarian majority can ever be possible? How many countries have made a transition...
• Less Antman: Libby, I think we agree that a free society would require that the average person accept the idea, as Roderick likes to express it, that "other people...
• Mike G: tinter, I could have and probably should have not mentioned genetics. From the original point, one significant cultural example might be the presence ...
• Dain: Jennifer, Who is saying that "government should outlaw consenting sex between two individuals with matching naughty bits"? And are these peo...
• P.M.Lawrence: Tinter, when you state that "Co-operatives, Unions ect have all proven quite enduring. It is in fact possible for a group of people to organise in a m...
• ed: "not just 50 +1 that’s been the pattern recently" that has been the pattern in 1 of the last 4 presidential campaigns. that is an interesting use o...
• Jeremy: Were they protesting that they have no right to protest? LOL Exactly. I admire the protesters, but I think there are bett...
• Jennifer: Dain, liberals and conservatives are equally guilty when it comes to insisting that sex can legally only be given for free, never for sale. But that's...
• Nick Manley: Oh, just to clarify: I am not saying there aren't any good people worth associating with in rural areas. I am just not that enthused by a collectivist...
• Nick Manley: The article is here: http://www.reason.com/news/show/128597.html...
• Nick Manley: Jim, When I read Matt Welch's article about the Republicans so called "free market" economic solutions, I was aghast at the idea of a government fu...
• Dain: If only it were as simple as just conservatives wanting to regulate sex via the state. Read Laura Agustin Margalin's Sex at the Margins......
• Nick Manley: It would make little rational sense for Chomsky to advocate a standard Marxist regime in pursuit of some kind of libertarian socialism. He should know...
• Rev Run: Like a stopped clock, Steve Sailer is right twice a day. This is about fertility. Sarah Palin squeezes out dem white babies, thus palin' (get it?...
• Jennifer: A lot of this culture-war shouting contest wouldn’t happen if more people read the Nurture Assumption. No, what needs to happen is, conserva...
• TGGP: A lot of this culture-war shouting contest wouldn't happen if more people read the Nurture Assumption....
• TGGP: I keep trying to find someone who can define “race'. A racial group is a...
• Jennifer: My point is that that goal — and the goal of stopping as many abortions as possible in the meantime — has led social conservatives to take a more l...
• Kevin B. O'Reilly: Mona, you write that I am "wrong," but nothing you said in response conflicts with what I wrote. I'm not saying anti-abortionists are not committed to...
• Eric H: Bullshit. By the time it was sued by the state of Ohio in 1892, Standard Oil controlled nearly 90% of the oil in the US. Yes, a market that ...
• Libby Spencer: Rocky! Thanks so much for coming over and weighing in. Les said: I agree with Roderick that every blog post in defense of liberty does more goo...
• libarbarian: It’s not that the Christian fundamentalist movement has become suddenly more accepting of icky premarital sex and uppity feminist careerism, it’s m...
• Dain: What is ironic is that the original progressive movement had more in common with women of the Shlafly sort than it did with the modern progress...
• strasmangelo jones: I think you underestimate the work that cognitive dissonance is doing here, Jim. In my experience at least, conservative evangelicals haven't gotten a...
• Dain: Oh, paleos. As you say, it's a rear-guard (re)actionary stance. The only admiration I have for paleos - though in this case more properly paleo-lib...
• Dain: Awesome. I plan on listening in!...
• tinter: Co-operatives, Unions ect have all proven quite enduring. It is in fact possible for a group of people to organise in a manner that lasts multiple gen...
• P.M.Lawrence: Tinter, I was commenting on the only possible forms of enduring enterprise without the assistance of an outside supporting framework (well, churches, ...
• tinter: Well Mona, I would hold its a social construct. But can't really say that before putting down that rebuttal. Lawrence, what is it that makes co-ope...
• Less Antman: I don't usually post just to say this, but this blog entry and the comments it has inspired are extremely interesting. Well done....
• Less Antman: I have no quarrel with non-voters, but the achievement of a free society will depend on convincing people that public goods can be provided without co...
• P.M.Lawrence: There is a short answer to Strasmangelo Jones's claim that "By the time it was sued by the state of Ohio in 1892, Standard Oil controlled nearly 90% o...
• Rocky: I've been stopping in here and reading all the comments and I think there are quite a few thoughtful, intelligent fellow Americans here who are practi...
• Mona: tinter sez: Furthermore, studies have shown only minor variation between races, Not rhetorical -- I keep trying to find someone who can de...
• Mona: It seems to this outsider that anti-abortion folks have changed attitudes in social-conservative circles by making goals such as abstinence and mon...