Sunday, July 15, 2012

Are eugenic sentiments on the rise again in America?

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Compassion. Mercy. These are the rallying words of would be tyrants, not necessarily those with iron clad fists but those wearing velvet g...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt read the book Philip Dru Administrator?

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Yesterday I made a posting with regard to FDR's dictators , with which I realized after the posting I may have been chasing a ghost, a m...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Ickes Named U.S. Oil "Dictator"

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In the Idaho Times, May 31st, 1941, the following was reported : (direct PDF download) Ickes Named U.S. Oil "Dictator" Petroleum ...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

John Rawls vs Ronald Reagan and the Founding Fathers

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In one of his most well known speeches "A Time for Choosing", Ronald Reagan said the following : ( text ) But beyond that, "t...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

"Everyone gets a trophy" syndrome - where does this idea come from?

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Are you sick and tired of seeing everybody get a trophy? Everybody's a winner even though they aren't? Let's just call it a ti...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Luck totalitarianism and the "accidents of nature"

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As I set out to read John Rawls' words, this was what struck me more than anything else - "natural lottery". So yet another p...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Socialism restricts the redistribution of wealth

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There are times when things get shuffled around, put in a drawer, forgotten. I meant to get back to this in a much more timely fashion, bu...
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