Posts Tagged ‘liberty’

Liberty and Justice for All

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

As I’ve been saying, glibertarians are really bad news. They are bad news because they give principled libertarians a bad name, and because they fuck up politics, and because they fuck up libertarianism. For a less impressionistic, more systematic account of why glibertarians are such bad news, consider two very broad ways of thinking about rights† and liberties (hereafter, just ‘rights’):

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The American Caliphate

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Okay Frank Gaffney, you want your chance to soil your sheets, Leonidas-style, over the silent and perhaps at this point irreversible Islamofascist conquest of America? You don’t need to resort to fantasizing about Muslim sovereign fund managers putting a hex on their bond issues, or, I don’t know, doing a universal find and replace of “New York” for “London” in whatever Melanie Phillips wrote this week. You don’t need to make up anything at all. Because it turns out that the most cunningly disguised Islamofascist sleeper cell ever has just planted the bloody banner of the false prophet Mahound and his demonic minions in a courtroom a mere stone’s throw from the Capitol: (more…)