Hit the nail on the head for me here... Libertarians can no longer dodge political wars. I'm more of a libertarian, not an upper case Libertarian, as the article notes. Calling myself "more of a libertarian" has been a great survival tool, growing up in New York and now living in California. From the article (which is a must read, definitely click the link):
"The casual libertarian, though, is probably from Gen X or Gen Y. They read most of "Atlas Shrugged" in college, saw "Schindler's List" and came to the conclusion that government power was dangerous and that people should do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
They didn't like the PC scolds on the Left or the uptight Young Republicans on the Right, so they did their own thing and thus became "more of a libertarian."
And as long as the central political fights in America were about morality and foreign policy, liberals recognized "more of a libertarian" as a declaration of noncombatant status.
But the battles of today are all about the size and shape of government."
Ann Althouse rightly burns Thomas Freidman for his most recent autocracy-supporting statements, which go quite nicely with Woody Allen's endorsement of dictatorship. Money quote: "A love of autocracy often lurks beneath the liberal veneer. There's this idea that the right answers are known and the people are just too deluded and distorted to see what they are and to vote for them."
Excellent article about the sort of society we DON'T want to emulate. Coming from the NYT, I'm shocked! A cautionary tale about European liberalism gone wild... Change you can believe in. Our public pension problem is already quite severe, though not as disgusting as Europe's. According to the article, one California former city administer receives (I dare not say earns) $509,664 in pension pay a year.
Maybe the administration has been reading my blog. Big ups to Secretary of State Clinton and the Obama Administration for stepping up and doing the right thing in the Korean Peninsula. U.N. Sec-Gen Ban Ki-Moon (a South Korean) has also ramped up the rhetoric, and hopefully our talks with China will result in their support in punishing NoKo.
Pictures of the gulf oil spill (H/T: Reader Guiseppe Fratelli)... depressing to say the least. Bobby Jindal is pretty pissed about the federal response. Maybe Kanye had it wrong... George Bush doesn't dislike black people, rather POTUS inherently dislike the state of Louisiana. It's really been 34 days since this thing exploded? Fuckin' A...
Don't be sad, my friends, for there is light in the darkness... Although we're going to have to support these 'tards beyond our capacity, at least they're good for something. Then again, don't trust everything you read on WaPo. I'm referring to this post by Ann Althouse, who again spanks the hacks in the media.
"if you choose to paraphrase and not even link, and I have to look up the text myself, and your paraphrase is not accurate, it is my job to embarrass you by pointing that out."
Kick ass, Ann, kick ass.
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