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Getting Butthurt in Debates Shouldn’t Prevent Libertarians From Working Together
Post Date: 2017-07-10 05:26:51 by Gatlin
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There’s already plenty of articles about how libertarians shouldn’t be as divided as we are and how the infighting will prevent us from making progress, but there’s a specific item that I wanted to address in regards to this division between different factions of libertarians. It has been highlighted to me most recently by the current dispute between some Anarchyball editor, and Jared Howe, and recent debates between anarchists and minarchists. These debates always seem to be end in hurt feelings, or plain ad hominem attacks. Open borders supporters call closed border supporters fascists, while the latter calls the former communists. Anarchists claim that minarchists need ...
The Libertarian Heritage: The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism
Post Date: 2017-07-09 21:42:31 by Gatlin
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[….] Americans were not always pragmatic and nonideological. On the contrary, historians now realize that the American Revolution itself was not only ideological but also the result of devotion to the creed and the institutions of libertarianism. The American revolutionaries were steeped in the creed of libertarianism, an ideology which led them to resist with their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor the invasions of their rights and liberties committed by the imperial British government. Historians have long debated the precise causes of the American Revolution: Were they constitutional, economic, political, or ideological? We now realize that, being libertarians, the ...
Republicanism in the United States
Post Date: 2017-07-09 20:49:10 by Gatlin
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Republicanism is the guiding political philosophy of the United States. It has been a major part of American civic thought since its founding. [1] It stresses liberty and unalienable individual rights as central values, making people sovereign as a whole, rejects monarchy, aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent in their performance of civic duties, and vilifies corruption. [2] American republicanism was founded and first practiced by the Founding Fathers in the 18th century. For them, according to one team of historians, "republicanism represented more than a particular form of government. It was a way of life, a core ideology, an uncompromising ...
Johann Herder as prophet of the contemporary university
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:54:09 by Anthem
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History of Philosophy Philosophy of History [Herder (1744-1802) was an early Counter-Enlightenment voice calling for group identity politics and value relativism, along with a rejection of cultural appropriation and an embrace of zero-sum cultural conflict. The following is excerpted from Explaining Postmodernism.]Herder on multicultural relativism Sometimes called the “German Rousseau,”[1] Johann Herder had studied philosophy and theology at Königsberg University. Kant was his professor of philosophy; and while at Königsberg Herder also became a disciple of Johann Hamann. Herder is Kantian in his disdain for the intellect, though unlike the ...
Cop Dumps Woman Out of Wheelchair, Then Walks Away
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:47:38 by Deckard
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Columbus, OH — A haunting video was uploaded to Facebook this week showing a Columbus cop allegedly dump a woman out of her wheelchair, then turn around and walk away. The incident reportedly happened at the Huntington Bank building at Senator Rob Portman’s office during a health care protest. According to FOX 28, National ADAPT, an activist group on behalf of the disabled, was inside the lobby of the Senator’s office with the hopes of arranging a forum to discuss the potential issues that will arise for those on Medicaid, specifically the cuts to it and caps on coverage, under the proposed health care plan. The goal was for the senator to give them a firm “no” ...
Power Tripping Cop Sued for Pulling Over Ambulance Carrying a Patient In Order to Intimidate Them [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:33:12 by Deckard
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Jackson, KY – Most people may see nothing wrong with a town councilman becoming a police offer, but what if that councilman cop also owns an ambulance company, and begins pulling over competing ambulances—then does he have too much power? The answer is still “No” in the city of Jackson, Kentucky, despite the fact that the taxpayer-funded Kentucky Association of Counties is now paying a $26,000 settlement to Emergency Medical Technician Jason Crigger. Crigger filed a lawsuit against Breathitt County Special Deputy and Councilman Steve McIntosh, claiming that McIntosh had no legitimate reason to pull over the ambulance he was driving in June 2016. ...
Veteran Nearly Killed by Cops for Legal Open Carry Wins $175K, Gets Gun Back
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:25:38 by Deckard
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Temple, TX – After more than four years, and $175,000, an Iraq War veteran finally has his firearms back following a confrontation with police that went viral in 2013. Temple police seized a Black Jack Firearms AR-15 and a Kimber Ultra Carry Pro II .45 caliber handgun from Army First Sergeant C.J. Grisham, after they apprehended him on the side of the road, while he and his 15-year-old son were hiking for an Eagle Scout project in March 2013. The entire incident was caught on film, and instantly went viral, causing outrage over the violation of Grisham’s civil rights. In the video, a compliant—but objecting—Grisham can be seen arguing ...
Ouch! Brazilian wax test question nets Howard University professor a 504-day Title IX investigation, sanctions
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:25:14 by Anthem
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Case is part of a larger pattern of colleges and universities punishing constitutionally protected expression under the guise of addressing sexual harassment. WASHINGTON, July 6, 2017 — A test question about hot wax has landed one Howard University professor in hot water with Title IX investigators. On May 4, law professor Reginald Robinson was deemed responsible for sexual harassment after two students complained about a test question involving a Brazilian wax and an upset client. After a 504-day investigation, administrators determined that Robinson would be required to undergo mandatory sensitivity training, prior administrative review of future test questions, and classroom ...
After Trump Bows to Saudis, Decision to Release Evidence of Saudis Funding 9/11 Gets Reversed
Post Date: 2017-07-09 17:15:31 by Deckard
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By Rachel Blevins President Trump’s change in attitude towards Saudi Arabia has apparently had a trickle-down effect, as a federal judge in Miami has reversed her decision to push for the release of crucial documents revealing information on the funding of the 9/11 attacks. Judge Cecilia Altonaga is now ruling in favor of the FBI, granting the agency’s request to keep large portions of a slide show titled “Overview of the 9/11 Investigation” secret from the public. The presentation Altonaga is now helping to keep private, includes sections on “Funding of the 9/11 Attacks,” “Early to Mid-2001 Additional Funding,” “Early to Mid-2000: ...
New York Times Mourns 'Sharp Declines' In Illegal Immigration Under Trump
Post Date: 2017-07-09 16:12:04 by Tooconservative
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Our friend Howard Portnoy at Liberty Unyielding found The New York Times on Monday offered the kind of story we saw a few days ago in The Washington Post: A heart-breaking tale of Donald Trump “winning” by discouraging illegal immigration. The front-page article poured out for 1,698 words under the headline “Fearful Migrants Stop Short of U.S.” Correspondent Kirk Semple began: CHOLOMA, Honduras — His bags were packed, and the smuggler was ready. If all went well, Eswin Josué Fuentes figured he and his 10-year-old daughter would slip into the United States within days. Then, the night before he planned to leave, he had a phone conversation with a ...
Oldie but Goodie: New ITAR Guidance to Squeeze Small Gunsmiths
Post Date: 2017-07-09 16:10:25 by buckeroo
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Yesterday, the firearm law experts at Prince Law Offices published a blog post titled, DDTC Issues Guidance on ITAR Registration. In the article, Adam Kraut, Esq. breaks down some new guidance released last Friday by the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) regarding the sorts of actions that require certain businesses to receive ITAR registration. The implications of this guidance could be far reaching and are expected to hit several small-time gunsmiths the hardest. According to DDTC, anyone meeting the following requirements should expect to apply for ITAR registration, even if business activities are limited to domestic sales/services (bold added by Prince Law): ...
This man's pursuit for sexual identification
Post Date: 2017-07-09 12:53:17 by redleghunter
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Muslim Refugee Running For Office In Shocking State – His Plan Is DISTURBING
Post Date: 2017-07-09 12:45:56 by IbJensen
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(Angry Patriot) – It has recently come to light that a Muslim Somali native is going to run for city council. This man has some shady ties, so it makes the council’s future hang ominously in the distance. The name of the man in question is Abshir Omar, and he wants to be on the city council in De Moines, Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register. It only gets worse from here. Besides being a Muslim, Omar is also a self-proclaimed “Democratic Socialist.” Omar originally came to the United States in 2012 and attended college here. He believes at this point, he’s fit to be on the council for the city he lives in, but some disturbing trends suggest otherwise. ...
Two Polish Men Make It Perfectly Clear What They Think Of Immigration
Post Date: 2017-07-09 10:25:06 by Justified
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Got to love it! Truth hurts progressives!
Journo Whose Husb. Drives Garbage Truck: Media Need More Socioeconomic Diversity
Post Date: 2017-07-09 09:38:53 by cranky
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The elitist legacy media need more socioeconomic diversity, according to a journalist whose husband, who is a garbage man, worries that his blue-collar job will embarrass her when she socializes with other reporters. Journalist Heather Bryant, a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford, recently described a conversation she had with another journalist at a conference in which she was asked what her husband did for a living: “He’s a truck driver and a mechanic.” “…Oh.” “Yeah, right now he drives for a trash company.” “That must be…an interesting perspective to have around.” “While they didn’t explicitly say it, the person was very ...
Delingpole: Record-Breaking Cold in Greenland; Alarmists ‘Look. An Arctic Squirrel!’
Post Date: 2017-07-09 07:42:35 by cranky
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Greenland just broke the record for the coldest July day ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere at -33C. But as Tony Heller notes, what’s even more interesting than the temperature record is the way the climate alarmists have tried to spin it. In fact they lie. Almost all Greenland’s surface is gaining ice. In fact, says Heller, Greenland has gained a near record amount of ice this year, and the ice is melting very slowly. It’s hard not to agree with his conclusion: Climate science is not a science. It is a criminal venture intended to extort money from the public. Whatever they are doing, has nothing to do with science.
Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science
Post Date: 2017-07-08 18:56:27 by cranky
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Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore enlists priests, rabbis and a Buddhist to test the effects of psychedelic drugs on religious experienceThe experiment aims to assess whether a transcendental experience alters the participants’ religious thinking. A Catholic priest, a Rabbi and a Buddhist walk into a bar and order some magic mushrooms. It may sound like the first line of a bad joke, but this scenario is playing out in one of the first scientific investigations into the effects of psychedelic drugs on religious experience – albeit in a laboratory rather than a bar. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have enlisted two dozen religious leaders from a wide range ...
Pope Francis Decries ‘Very Dangerous Alliance’ Between U.S. and Russia
Post Date: 2017-07-08 17:57:03 by cranky
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In a new interview, Pope Francis said he fears there are “very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world,” including such an alliance between the United States and Russia. Pope Francis told his interviewer, the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, that he was worried about the G20 summit, which brings together leaders from 20 of the largest economies in the world, along with finance ministers and central bank governors. “I’m afraid that there are very dangerous alliances between powers who have a distorted view of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, Putin and Assad in the war in Syria,” Francis reportedly said. ...
Nikki Haley: ‘Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections’ [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-07-08 17:45:01 by Hondo68
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© Keren Carrion U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said everyone knows that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections, as well as other elections around the world, despite President Trump's refusal to say they did. "Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections," Haley told CNN's Dana Bash in a pre-taped interview for "State of the Union."Haley's comments come after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Trump brought up the issue of election hacking to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday at the G20 summit in Hamburg. However, Trump has been hesitant to say publicly that Russia meddled in the election, saying other countries ...
Muslim Immigrants Must Not Assimilate, Says Progressive Ally Linda Sarsour
Post Date: 2017-07-08 16:52:45 by cranky
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Muslims in the United States should not assimilate into American society, but should instead act “to please Allah and only Allah,” said Linda Sarsour, a rising star among progressive Democrats, last weekend. Sarsour’s remarks were part of a July 1 speech given at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA. She said: Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority. Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community, and our top priority, even higher than all those priorities, is to please Allah and only ...
In Nuland's Footsteps: US Names Ex-McCain Staffer as Special Ukraine Envoy
Post Date: 2017-07-08 16:25:10 by Hondo68
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The US State Department has apparently found a replacement for Victoria 'Cookies' Nuland to coordinate Washington's Ukraine policy. Former CIA analyst, prominent neocon, and McCain Institute for International Leadership executive director Kurt Volker has been named the US Special Envoy to Ukraine to negotiate an end to that country's civil war.US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed Volker's appointment as US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations on Friday, with the diplomat expected to spearhead US efforts to move forward on the implementation of the Minsk agreements – the ceasefire and peace plan signed by Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany in ...
Oral sex spreading unstoppable bacteria [the Clap]
Post Date: 2017-07-08 11:05:47 by Tooconservative
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Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said. It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible. The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. Experts said the situation was "fairly grim" with few new drugs on the horizon. About 78 million people pick up the STI each year and it can cause infertility. The World Health Organization analysed data from 77 countries which showed gonorrhoea's resistance to antibiotics was widespread. Dr Teodora Wi, from the WHO, said there had even been ...
Almost a Quarter of Americans Now Want ‘Organic’ Water
Post Date: 2017-07-08 08:52:46 by cranky
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Joining the ranks of sommelier-recommended milk, single-origin beef, and single-udder butter is America’s first certified-organic water, Asarasi. It bills itself as the “purest form of water in the world,” and is a product harvested from the sap of maple trees to ensure it’s “free of all impurities.” (Immediately after which, naturally, it’s force-carbonated.) Call it what you want — more evidence that the U.S. premium-water market is out of hand? — but the truly surprising fact is that market research shows nearly 25 percent of Americans now claim they’d actually choose “organic” water over normal water. Honestly, what this ...
Bankrupt Illinois Slams Citizens with 32% Income Tax Hike, More to Come
Post Date: 2017-07-08 07:53:43 by cranky
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As the state of Illinois edges near becoming the first U.S. state to ever be rated junk bond status, the Democrat-controlled legislature of the bankrupt state of Illinois has just voted to slam its citizens with a hefty 32 percent hike in state income taxes. After a series of delays, as a legislature obviously embarrassed by its own actions dithered, the State House finally approved of the Senate’s override of the governor’s veto with a 71-42 vote, burdening the state with a massive income tax hike. It was a vote that saw ten of the state’s Republican contingent abandon Republican values and join the Democrats in approval. Thursday’s vote permanently increases the ...
Dinner diplomacy: Melania Trump sits beside Putin at G20 banquet after her husband confronted him on hacking the election - which Russian leader flatly denied
Post Date: 2017-07-08 07:14:28 by IbJensen
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At a Friday night dinner at the G20, first lady Melania Trump was seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin Earlier Friday, Putin met with Melania's husband, President Donald Trump, for the first time - at a meeting that lasted two and a half hours President Trump brought up Russia's role in hacking the 2016 presidential election, which Putin quickly denied After spending two and a half hours speaking to President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin had dinner seated beside the American leader's wife, Melania. The Trumps both met Putin for the first time on Friday, as the world's top leaders gathered in Hamburg, Germany at the G20. President ...
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