The Liberal Legal Bubble
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How could members of the Supreme Court possibly seriously consider the argument that ObamaCare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance is unprecedented and unconstitutional? The quality of the arguments? The presence of a genuine legal debate? No, if you ask the law’s liberal cheerleaders, there can only be one answer: pure partisan politics. From the [...]
That’s Not Your Job, It’s Mine
Is it the pediatrician’s job to look out for the safety of my children? Or is that my job and responsibility?
Government Is Not Society
If I was going to sum up my political philosophy as succinctly as possible, I think this is how I’d do it.
Perhaps the difference that most fundamentally separates true liberals and libertarians from others is that, to one degree or another, true liberals and libertarians are, unlike non-liberals and non-libertarians, dutiful sons and …
Selfish Individualist Libertarians?
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[T]rue individualism affirms the value of the family and all the common efforts of the small community and group . . . [and] believes in local autonomy and voluntary associations . . [I]ndeed, its case rest largely on the contention that much for which the coercive action of the state is usually invoked can be done better by voluntary collaboration.
Unions: A Right to a Union?
Do workers have a right to unionize? If a legislature changes the law to remove collective bargaining, does that deprive workers of their rights?
It depends. It depends on which rights you’re talking about and on which rights the law covers.
There are two kinds of rights. The first kind is negative rights. Negative rights either permit …
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch3, P2)
It’s way more likely multiple universes exist than God.
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch3, P1)
The Cosmological Argument vs. the Bible’s Creation Account
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch2, P3)
“Western logic” vs. “Eastern logic”
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Housekeeping)
The question of whether I’d be able to keep up my posting schedule on this series during Christmas vacation finally resolved itself for me tonight, when I realized that no, I haven’t a snowball’s chance in Hell of keeping it on track. So be it known that a hiatus herein begins, hopefully concluding with …