Category Archives: Liberty

The passionate inquiry into freedom and justice for all.

Liberals and conservatives actually want the same thing Comments Off

Epiphany I had while watching last week’s Stossel and listening to Anne Coulter make absolutely no sense whatsoever – liberals and conservatives want the exact same thing. To run our lives. Liberals want to tell us how to think and talk (political correctness and hate speech laws) and take care of ourselves (trans-fat and smoking [...]

Setting the bar too low is no way to reach higher Comments Off

Heard a radio story about Hispanics and college last year that chapped my hide. Seems there’s some concern because there more starting school than ever before, but few are finishing. The story made reference to the need to get more of them to complete college because we won’t have enough trained workers if we don’t. [...]

The libertarian’s golden rule 2

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.”

 – Carl Schurz

No one is forcing you … Comments Off

Couldn’t miss the hub-bub-bub back in May over Facebook Quit Day. (Huh, am I making it an “official” holiday by capitalizing it?) Which some genius scheduled for a major US holiday weekend resulting in most people ignoring it altogether. Read just over 30K people actually went through with it and quit their Facebook accounts all [...]

Losing the right to choose Comments Off

At one corner, me on my putt-putt Blast. Armored to the hilt (jacket, pants, gloves, boots) and wearing my bajillion-dollar, certified-every-which-way-including-up helmet. And sweating up a storm in the Texas summer. At another corner, guy on his custom Harley. Wearing shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops and a painters cap. And probably feeling pretty breezy over there. Yes, [...]