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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Monday, June 15. 2009

Monday evening links

Urban coyotes. h/t, Jungleman


AVI's theory on not hitting squirrels with your car


Walpin gives the inside story. It's an ugly story. Imagine if Bush...aw, why do I keep saying that?


Hayek: Why I am not a Conservative. h/t, Neptunus


Men are now on the wrong side of the degree gap at every stage of education


Immigrants from redistributionist countries vote for redistributionists


The realities of college education: Four years of propaganda, partying, and buying a mostly worthless degree.


Conservatism thrives. All it needs are compelling leaders. Related: The Gallup poll.  Related: Is Sarah the threat?


The Boston Globe is on sale.


Minimum wages do cause unemployment.


The public plan would be the only plan. Related: the CBO will have something to say about it. I'm beginning to think that the Admin bit off more than they can chew. Related from Dick Morris: The O's issues are crumbling. Related from Samuelson: Naive, hypocritical, and dishonest, Related from Yuval Levin and Kristol: Defeat Obamacare.


Also related: the Indian Health Service as a model


The $787 billion mistake


Chris Dodd's wife, via Insty


Fancy a cuppa?

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 19:52 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Political labels are getting very confusing these days. Contextual factors, such as; country , time period, and type of government have to be taken into consideration. I see the MSM, NPR in particular, is comparing conservative Islamists in Iran with conservative Evangelicals in the US. Nice political ploy for the left and it will probably stick in the heads of the entranced.
On Facebook in my profile under politics I put, Conservative/Classical Liberal/ Libertarian. In the religion spot I put ' mere Christian '. I suppose I could have put Evangelical Christian, but my libertarian politics inhibit my desires to convert the non-believers. My wife sums up her Christian belief nicely when she says, " I believe in the gospel of Christ, it is power to save first the Jew then the gentile, so fuck off. Does that make us Calvinists?
Semantics. All we know is that is that we believe in freedom for the individual and as little government interference in the individuals life as posible. Governments job is to protect our freedoms not restrict them.
#1 sean on 2009-06-16 10:11 (Reply)
So if college is "Four years of propaganda, partying, and buying a mostly worthless degree", then...

there may be more than one reason why "Men are now on the wrong side of the degree gap at every stage of education".

What if Real Men want to accomplish something...
?
Susan Lee
#2 Susan Lee on 2009-06-16 19:29 (Reply)

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