Institutional Will
Do institutions have a will that transcends, and can run contrary to, those who create and staff them? In the early seventies my high school participated in a program that allowed students to access...
View ArticleSystem ‘D’
For any of you who may be feeling particularly depressed about the state of the economy, politics and the regulatory leviathan in general, this will cheer you up greatly. It certainly improved my...
View ArticleOn this day in 1775
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave . . . Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it,...
View ArticleIf this bastard wins …
The Wisconsin Recall election on June 5 is national news and a much discussed political watershed moment. And, conveniently, voter ID laws have been temporarily blocked during the recall. If this...
View ArticleOn originalism
What law of physics obligates the existence of a moral code? Why don’t rocks and trees and lions and zebras have moral codes? What is it that makes human decisions a special case that is different from...
View ArticleA good day for limited government
There is a lot of conflicting opinion being fired at the US Supreme Court’s ruling(PDF) on “Obamacare”. It is certainly a curious ruling both on first and subsequent reads. I think the opinions in the...
View ArticleTo coin money and regulate the value thereof
This all too serious joke has steadily gained traction among the self anointed cognoscenti. Probably one reason they think “Hope®” it will work is because it is “legal”. We don’t make the loopholes. We...
View ArticleNot getting it yet
The state of nature is not the halcyon, bucolic life of myth. Existentially, the state of nature is a place of predators and prey. To escape that uncertainty, predators or prey can join together in...
View ArticleStability
Kim Jong-un is looking at things, just like his father! The Kim is dead, long look the Kim! – commenter Alisa
View ArticleNigel Farage tactfully comments on the euro and the EU
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View ArticleIN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of...
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A domestic army
Browsing Instapundit this morning, I found this link to this video… Update: Commenter Alisa contributed a link that includes a pointer to the Homeland Security Grant Application (PDF) by the Concord...
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