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• Dain: This is an interesting dilemma. If there were some way to disagregate the vast majority of non-slave holding citizens in the south from those that ...
• Dain: Jeremy, I'm like you. I'm essentially one of those libertarian natural rights types. I don't think rights - most certainly "negative", but "positiv...
• BC: Muslims Against Sharia is a blog collective that includes Pamela Geller, the (non-Muslim) owner of the anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate site "Atlas Shru...
• b-psycho: Ironically, Hitchens' "moral equivalence" crap makes the point of the Jihadis for them, and more effectively than they ever could've. For the longest...
• FreeDem: I have to give a lot of credit to the failure of Democratic leadership in the 1850s in keeping their political coalition together. You could probably...
• Neel Krishnaswami: The claim that classical mathematics "does more work" than intuitionistic mathematics is pretty common, but it's at best misleading and at worst compl...
• Keith Preston: Helms was responsible for things far more despicable than name-calling. He was the leading proponent in the US Senate of unqualified American support ...
• Jeremy: To me, this is more of a problem with the whole notion of rights in general. We presuppose state authority, and then devise a network of (or series o...
• Ian: I don't think I would ever volunteer myself to experience torture, but I would likely have little problem volunteering Christopher Hitchens for the ex...
• Kevin Carson: Very nice. I've encountered arguments against decentralism by liberal Democrats claiming that the elimination of racial injustice was possible o...
• Kevin Carson: The benefit was suggested by Marx's "manuring the fields" analogy: it secures the conditions for reproduction of labor-power on a sustainable basis, ...
• Mona: TGGP: I have no strong opposition to the "white hands" ad (tho it makes a sound byte out of affirmative action where in all 60 whites who lose a job t...
• TGGP: I like to think I have the largest gathering of WFB obituaries ...
• Melancholy Korean: Fascinating analysis. The comments are strong as well. But I have to agree with Koffler's take on the politics. "Kristol, on the other hand, is...
• Dain: Oh, that human greed that fails to account for why these prices weren't this high (or higher yet, as greed is boundless!) for years before the current...
• AA: So, where do you stand with respect to the contractarian tradition?...
• TGGP: I still don't understand how a limit on the hours of a workday is in the interest of the capitalist class as a whole....
• Adam Ricketson: Okay, devil's advocate: If these points are addressed elsewhere, I don't need a response...I'm just throwing out ideas. 1) The stock market (adjust...
• Daniel Koffler: That looks like confusing wording in practical effect, but unambiguous in meaning. Assuming 'never' means 'always not' (N.B. very different from 'not ...
• Keith Preston: Kevin's "A Political Program for Anarchists" gives a pretty detailed plan of action so far as economic matters is concerned. Much else would probably ...
• Kevin Carson: Jeremy, Working it out in practice doesn't necessarily mean *blindly* working it out in practice. I think there is an excellent case to be made fo...
• Keith Preston: As one who has had considerable exposure, to the gun rights movement, I can assure everyone that Kevin is exactly correct in his depiction of NRA type...
• jackson: Thanks, Colin. The speech was a campagin speech, so I imagine there were minor variations to it every time RFK delivered, which probably would have be...
• Natasha: Kevin, The irony is that a common argument by gun rights supporters is that gun control prevents law abiding people from having guns. In the contex...
• ajay: Well, double negatives are different because they actually can be ambiguous. "Jim, I understand you were once a supporter of carbon taxes?" "Look...
• Colin Fogarty: Thanks for this posting, Jackson. I wanted to make sure you know about the work of the Glaser Progress Foundation on measuring progress. There's a vid...
• Jeremy: One more thing: but if we're just going to have to work it out in practice, we should not expect the Angelas of the world to ever be convinced by our ...
• Jeremy: Thanks for bearing with me, Kevin. I agree: in pursuing our interests, we have to be open to both facts you've mentioned. I guess it's just that you...
• Amos: I like to use she and he as proximate and obviative pronouns. This useful distinction could become a standard part of English. After all...
• Ted: It appears that it’s all down to Alaska Gov Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney, and team Romney fears Palin now has the best shot, so Romney camp is mounting ...
• Mantar: And, sure, that is some pretty crude sexism there, but is the primary feature of the note that it is outrageous, or that it is really bizarre and a...
• Kevin Carson: Jeremy, The way I see it, changing things from the bottom up includes both counter-institution building, and political action to dismantle the stat...
• Kevin Carson: Thanks, Adam....
• Kevin Carson: Mark, I tend to identify with the Suprynowicz/Wolfe end of the gun rights spectrum, so I also have a negative spin on the NRA. My take on them, at...
• Jeremy: Well, at least assuming that you do consider subsidies and special privileges to be wrong, do you oppose any kind of organized political a...
• Stuart Mills: OK. Two questions to develop this thread in a more useful direction: If you've identified the worst Yale books ever written, which would you say a...
• Mona: I employ either "they," "s/he," and sometimes just "he." Further, I do not find this issue all that important....
• Jim Henley: Since Scalia carefully crafted Heller to establish an individual right to have a gun in your own home, specifically disclaiming any constitut...
• Mark: Kevin: As much as I don't particularly care for the NRA (and I really, really don't), they have not been particularly good soldiers for the Republica...
• Adam01: "The Green Revolution’s high-response varieties crowded out other viable alternatives that were more appropriate to traditional small-scale agricultur...