Rogel @ May 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sometimes I do agree with our elected leaders. Here, for example, I agree with one of the architect of the disastrous Farm Bill - this Bill is very hard to justify…
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) acknowledged that the payments are “very hard to explain to our urban colleagues.” But negotiators, under pressure […]
Rogel @ May 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Not that President Bush is so great, he definitely isn’t. But I’ll applaud him if he will actually veto this monster:
President George W. Bush will veto the farm bill proposed by congressional agriculture leaders because it exceeds spending guidelines and offers no “real reform,” Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.
“At a time of record farm income, […]
Rogel @ May 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This short video is a good example for the difference between bad choices, or at least odd one, and illegal choice. The fact that we might not approve of the practice of throwing babies from hight doesn’t make it illegal. Since there is no physical abuse the practice is, and should be, legal. On the […]
Rogel @ May 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I guess that he knows that it was never about global warming, but about paternalism. But it is good question nevertheless:
So there will be no global warming for the next ten years … and there has been none the past ten years. Are we knuckle-dragging flat-Earthers allowed to be skeptical yet?
Rogel @ April 30, 2008 # One Comment
The question of just war was, and still is, a source for many philosophical discussions. It was not only a theoretical question but a question that leaders considered practically, even if only for the purpose of legitimacy. It was also the justification establishing the league of nations and its younger, and equally failure, the UN. […]
Rogel @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There is very little in common between the crazy FLDS cult, which is now all over the news, and Professor Christopher Ratte and his wife Professor Claire Zimmerman. And yet it is obvious for most of us that taking all the children from the FLDS compound in Texas was justified but we nodding our heads […]
Rogel @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of the things I never learned is latin, but I trust this is accurate:
The regulator’s motto is “Dirigo, ergo sum” — I boss people around, therefore I am.
As the rest of George Will’s column about the dreary implications of the McCain-Fiengold campaign finance reform:
Parker North is a cluster of about 300 houses close to […]
Rogel @ April 24, 2008 # One Comment
The story about the polygamist compound in Texas will probably be material for movies - a mysterious phone call, wired cult that is most likely damaging its children and abusing it women and the heroic raid of the authorities to save the children. Should the authorities have acted upon the phone call - unequivocally yes. […]
Rogel @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Happy Tax Freedom Day
We, in NY state, actually need to wait until May 5th - but I don’t mind congratulate those who are finished working for the tax collectors.