Rogel @ May 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
And how do you celebrate Karl Marks 190th birthday?
I think that it would be appropriate to remember the many victims of the dictatorship of the proletarian and the idea that it is moral to enslave one person to the needs of another. We should also emphasize that it wasn’t a great idea that was […]
Rogel @ April 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m pretty much on the bandwagon of non-interventionism foreign policy. But it seems to me that it be intellectually dishonest to be non-interventionist selectively, with suspicious set of standards. If one decline to condemn china for its Human Rights abuses, or decline to condemn Syria for promoting terrorism based on complete non-intervantion and neutrality than […]
Rogel @ April 2, 2008 # 2 Comments
One would assume that the Senate Majority Leader must know that taxes aren’t voluntary. I only wonder why he insist taking this rather peculiar line of argument instead of arguing the supposed necessity or supposed benefits of wealth distribution. At least among the few blog reader I take it for granted that we are all […]
Rogel @ December 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
This short clip is a good reminder that non-intervantionism was the mainstream republican policy not so far ago. It is interesting, and sad, to see how easy it become to make it into fringe ideology. One might argue that the 9/11 terror attacks change everything, but I doubt the wisdom of such argument. Yes, the […]
Rogel @ September 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I was able to convince my wife to post a comment she was writing to a guest post here. Hopefully this will be the first step in more writing from her. So without additional interruptions here is Anna’s first post.
I have read your post "An Illicit Love Affair" with a certain degree of sadness as […]
Rogel @ July 19, 2007 # One Comment
The answer John Kerry provides, to a caller’s question on C-Span, reminded me how much I dislike him. It is the complete lack of intellectual honesty, the assumption that other people are stupid and the application of moral relativism that I so despise.
Here is how Kerry describe the Vietnam’s Reeducation camps:
There were reeducation camps and they weren’t pretty […]
Rogel @ July 9, 2007 # 2 Comments
Few weeks ago I wrote about my reservations with the so called fair tax. I argued that focusing on the collection system instead of the distribution philosophy is the wrong approach. Since the fair tax isn’t aiming to reduce the government involvement and intrusiveness, it is by definition focusing on the minor problem. Interestingly I found […]
Rogel @ June 4, 2007 # 39 Comments
One of the campaign slogans we here this days is the Fair Tax, mostly by the Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. The basic Idea of the, so called, fair tax, is to abolish all taxes and establish only one tax - a Federal Sales Tax. Is this tax actually more fair than the current taxes we […]
Rogel @ May 29, 2007 # 2 Comments
Lets take a look at Hillary Clinton’s version of newspeak, it is rather fascinating:
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it’s time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.
The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an […]
Rogel @ April 16, 2007 # 14 Comments
The debate about the right to bear arms is about the the limits to the power of the government and the ability to maintain sovereign government without complete monopoly of the use of force, or the threat to use force. It is potentially intellectually interesting debate (and in which I’m holding a non-libertarian position). It […]