A good law should apply to everyone equally. That is what equality under the law is supposed to mean in a free society. If it doesn’t, then it is not only a bad law, but an affront to the rule of law and to the principle of equality under the law itself. As Congressman Rogers’…
Category: Politics
Posts on Contemporary American and World Politics
On Eliminating Social Security
Should one advocate a gradual phaseout of Social Security and Medicare, or outright abolition? That’s a question on which I’ve had mixed thoughts for a while. On the one hand I see the point of Ayn Rand’s own statements in support of a phaseout because people have become dependent on the system. But my attitude…
No Meaning in Madness
In an article at Salon.com (“The real message of Loughner’s book list“), Laura Miller does an admirable job of exposing the absurdity of attributing political significance to the favorite books list of Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner: “Loughner is almost certainly insane and… his ideas would have been ignored as incoherent and irrelevant if he…
Politically Exploiting a Tragedy
I can’t even begin to express my contempt for those who have been trying to exploit the Arizona shooting for purposes of political propaganda. The shooter was clearly mentally ill, and the hodgepodge of random comments and influences we’re hearing about him reflect no coherent theme beyond that. To try to spin that into an…
Welcome to the Repeal the Bailouts Blog!
Welcome to the Repeal the Bailouts Blog! The Repeal the Bailouts Blog is an outgrowth of the old Repeal the Bailout website. Inspired by outrage at Congressional passage of the 850 billion dollar Bush/Paulson “financial bailout bill” on October 3, 2008, the original site was intended to be a resource for intellectual activism in opposition…