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"Politics is the art of the possible" - Otto von Bismarck
Glenn Greenwald: An Interview with The Art of the Possible
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Can\'t wait for the Greenwald Chat!!
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Dean Baker in Chat Monday, August 18 at 7 p.m. Eastern
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Who would Hayek vote for if he were alive today?
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Liberals, feel free to weigh in as well, but I’m especially interested to know what my fellow libertarians think of criminalizing the ownership of poisonous snakes, and prohibiting adult religionists from handling them based on faith that they can come to no harm by doing so. AP (whom I should not be quoting) recently reported: (more…)
Presumptive Democratic Nominee for President of the United States, Barack Obama, has apparently sold out by endorsing Steny Hoyer and the Democratic-controlled Congress’s plan to both give George Bush all the power he could want to eavesdrop on Americans’ international communications in secret, and grant retroactive immunity to lawless telecommunications companies (tho Obama says he will fight in the Senate to strip the immunity provision; that means he’ll make a pretty but futile speech, and then vote for a bill with amnesty that will pass the Senate, too). Well, yes, I am profoundly disappointed, but feel no sense of betrayal. Only a fool invests emotionally in any candidate; still greater fools expect the POTUS to be Our Savior. Indeed, such expectations of presidents have rendered the Executive office the danger it has become.
To keep current with my posts about the overzealous, hoaxer-believing Texas officials who removed more than 400 children from a polygamous religious group the state does not like — based on scant evidence of any wrongdoing at the Mormon sect’s compound, Yearning for Zion Ranch — a unanimous Texas state appellate panel today: (more…)
No doubt my post expressing wariness of the treatment of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound in Texas — where over 400 children were removed from their families — gave insight into my view that ill-informed, uncritical hatred of any new religion dismissed as a “cult” is dangerous. And can result in illiberal state action.
Jesse Walker at Reason’s Hit & Run examines why “The FLDS raid in Texas looks more ludicrous every day.” Not to mention that, as WaPo reports, the original caller claiming to be a 16-year-old rape victim at YFZ apparently is a 33-year-old hoaxer, with a history of such false calls.
By now most have heard about the raid on the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compound — Yearning for Zion — in Edlorado, Texas. Over 400 children were removed, each of whom has been assigned a volunteer attorney (h/t to Margherita by email) to serve as guardian ad litem; all the children face the prospect of ending up in a secular foster system utterly foreign to the sheltered lifestyle from whence they were abruptly yanked. And separated from mothers who are agonized and desperately want their sons and daughters back.