DanCfL
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14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Why Are We In Afghanis... · 0 replies · +1 points
If so, very discouraging
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Civil Liberties and th... · 0 replies · +1 points
In A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding, Ellis Sandoz defines the basis of natural law as the Golden Rule. And this explains why legal positivism flourishes today.
Rachel Maddow's devastating analysis of Obama's "rule of law" speech was great fun but failed to note that his concept of law is positivist rather than constitutional. I think he was just saying that the Govt has to adopt "a new regime of law" that will provide a legal basis for Philip K. Dick's Minority Report and preventive detention
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Civil Liberties and th... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Stop Letting Cheney Fr... · 0 replies · +1 points
I was impressed by a Pew poll that showed evangelical Christian and white Catholics support for torture while nonbelievers were opposed. Along with torture, these massacres, which cannot be called "war" much less just war, have served to corrupt morality as Christians flock to Cheney's "dark side." For the less enthused Obama's janus face is just as effective as the whole issue plays and spins on policy rather than morality and law.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Why Liberals Love Obama · 0 replies · +2 points
Raimondo is right of course: the left is completely illiberal, mired in its sanctimonious cultural political wars for abortion, gay marriage, and equality. As he has often averred, there is one party: the War and Money Party and the rest is sports politics.
"Obama-Cheney 2012"!
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - What Did Nancy Know? · 0 replies · +2 points
The economic setup Mr. Grady describes is not libertarian nor even capitalist. Privately owned monopolies administered by government policy (as opposed to the rule of law) are corporatist, i.e., fascist in the strict economic sense although we now endure much of the theatrical grandguignol characteristics of fascism as well.
Lobbyists never visit Ron Paul.
The Ron Paul campaign and the continuing Campaign for Liberty have included lots of lefties. These folks were not attracted with venom but with the milk of human kindness and perhaps also a strong cup of intellectual coffee. And both Denis Kucinich and Ralph Nader were grateful for Ron Paul's support and eventually have come to realize that the Federal Reserve has been the major player in all the wars and economic calamities.
14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The Rule of the 'Experts' · 0 replies · +2 points
On the contrary, Plato holds that reality and rationality are apprehended through introspection rather than empirical data, techniques, hype, spin, pragmatism and power, all the phantasmagoria of the cave. You do seem to buy into the cave a bit as Rick's asserts, I guess there is an admission ticket to the general discussion but I think Ron Paul is right to look within past the phantasmagoria into our own part in the "conflict."