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Nah. What's important to me is that libertarian *ideas* come to dominate, not something called the libertarian party. Both of the major parties in this country are ideologically hollow shells -- they blow this way and that with public opinion.

1 day, 14 hours ago onReddit in en.wikipedia.org

tl;dr: Fisheries are a classic commons. Therefore there will be tragedy so long as they remain commons.

1 day, 14 hours ago onReddit in www.americablog.com

The problem with this sort of thinking is that it doesn't acknowledge the purpose of a justice system. A justice system's first obligation is to dispense justice. If it doesn't, and only dispenses law, then it encourages disrespect for the justice system, followed by evasion of it or ignoring it, which in turn leads to 'mob justice' - lynching, tar-and-feathering, etc. The Madoff issue, I suspect, is an illustration that a large set of people within society don't see justice being served by the system in Madoff's case. This is an argument to change the justice system and sentancing, not grounds to condemn people for feeling the system is unjust. ... See all content Hide content

2 days, 15 hours ago onReddit in news.yahoo.com

>at some point the state will realize it has to cut spending and lower taxes

Um, you mean to say that it hasn't yet?

I don't think Prop 13 got CA into this situation. Prop 13 didn't force anyone to hire more civil servants, or pay them vastly more than the rate of inflation, or give them huge pensions.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in www.city-journal.org

No, I mean 'provide roads that work' and 'educate kids in the school system better'. Those are two of the big ones. Oh, and 'housing is affordable and higher quality'. That's another big one.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in www.city-journal.org

You have a very limited analytic abillity if you think so.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in www.city-journal.org

They say that for it to be possible for you earn a medal, someone on your side has already screwed things up. I suppose there's no reason you can't be both the screwup and the hero.

OTOH, there have been more than a few of these sorts of disciplinary actions lately, and that leads me more towards the CYA theory.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com

I hadn't noticed the first time, but the first thing the driver looks at when she gets out of her car? Her car. She doesn't apparently even look at the two women she just splattered.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in www.youtube.com

Is it fair for people who make $200 a day to refuse to buy anything from people making $1 a day? It's sort of like really fat people gorging themselves at a feast while denying the starving people even the crumbs.

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in dailypaul.com

How is this different than, say, California, again?

1 week, 1 day ago onReddit in dailypaul.com