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Back From The Breech To Talk Philosophy

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

I’m tired of talking about Social Security, so I’m not going to do it for awhile at least. Mainly, I’m 100% certain that I will pay taxes my whole life and never see a cent, so it’s hardly worth talking about.
What I have been thinking about a lot lately is the duty […]

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Cynical About America

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

Jacqueline Passey is. Well, not really about America so much as the prospect of turning the United States back onto the path of small government. She says this about the state of American political life:
I’ve given up on Libertarians or libertarians ever getting elected in sufficient numbers in the US to set policy. […]

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Society? What Society?

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

The ever-engaging Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek posted this most interesting tidbit about order, society, and government. I think his most interesting observation comes here:
The very act of framing issues or describing problems as “social” entails thinking of society (usually in the form of a country) as the relevant unit upon which analysis is […]

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