Just because something can be justified according to theoretical libertarianism does not mean most people aren’t going to recoil at what is being suggested…
Perhaps the mentioning of the Federal Reserve, “Agenda 21,” and Birtherism. should also be on that no-no list…
Hat Tip: Classical Values via Spatial Orientation.
The Progressive left have a collectivist view of society where that “everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.” Nowhere is that more clear than their view towards people’s children. The state becomes the substitute parent and becomes the one that raises children and instills its social norms and its beliefs, to the point where the state becomes mother & father (or non-gender specific parental caregiver). It conditions people towards dependency on the state, to the point where grown men and women are simply grown children, and the state is there for the elite few to take care of the dependent masses.
More often, those who espouse this view have grown more bold. Melissa Harris-Perry, a pseudo-scientist and talking head at MSNBC, has boldly proclaimed that all our children belong to the collective, that is, Leviathan:
Bowdoin: A Case Study of The Failure of Higher Education
A recent address given by Barry Mills, the President of Bowdoin (a small liberal arts college). Therein he addresses an encounter with a fellow golfer who was critical of the leftist dominance at small liberal arts colleges such as Bowdoin:
“In his address, President Mills described the golf outing and said he had been interrupted in the middle of a swing by a fellow golfer’s announcement: ‘I would never support Bowdoin—you are a ridiculous liberal school that brings all the wrong students to campus for all the wrong reasons,’ said the other golfer, in Mr. Mills’s telling. During Mr. Mills’s next swing, he recalled, the man blasted Bowdoin’s ‘misplaced and misguided diversity efforts.’ At the end of the round, the college president told the students, ‘I walked off the course in despair.'”
In effect, Bowdoin was “an intellectual monoculture dedicated above all to identity politics.”
It turns out that this nefarious interrupting golfer was Thomas D. Klingenstein, who corrected Mills’ rather unflattering, and insinuating descripton.
Mr. Klingenstein did not stop at simply correcting Mills’ statement and Mills’ view of Bowdoin; he commissioned a full report to describe just how out-of-touch and rabidly leftist Bowdoin is, and undoubtedly other liberal arts colleges are.
The full report can be read below:
Amanda Collins, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, possesses a CCW (Concealed Carry Permit). The University of Nevada, Reno, however, requires that to exercise one’s right to conceal carry, they must attain the permission of the University, which is practically never given. For this reason, Amanda Collins, being a law-abiding citizen, did not have her gun to defend herself when she was raped. She recounts her story below:
“Gun free zones” are nothing more than “Victim disarmament zones.” The 2nd Amendment does not stop at the border of a public university’s campus.
This Friday is the deadline for bills to pass out of committee in their originating house
The Nevada Assembly’s Judicial Committee is considering SB221, which would criminalize the private transfer of firearms.
It is being heard in committee Thursday 11th of April. You can contact the Nevada Senate Health and Human Services Committee here.
Legislators can be contacted here, or alternately opinions can be given directly here.
In contrast, there are many pro-2nd Amendment bills that are not scheduled before the deadline. You can contact the Assembly Judiciary committee to urge them to give a hearing on these bills, including:
The members of the Judiciary committee are listed and contracted through the committee’s website.
Please feel free to forward this information or post it elsewhere.
For freedom.
The President of the infamous Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, has been caught on tape recommending that teachers lie to parents as a regular course of action.
Why does she think parents should be lied to? Because then they can keep children “hostage,” thus allowing teachers to control students. While some may just put this off as a way of stopping bad behavior in the classroom, it gives the teacher far more control over the child than just that, and can be easily exploited to the point of bullying and even sexual molestation. That the government is lying to parents about their own children increases the moral repugnancy of the what Karen Lewis is encouraging her teachers to do.
Increasingly, the schools and the government know more about a child, and exercise even more power over a child, than a parent does. We are truly reaching the point were the state is mother and father non-gender specific parental caregiver.
This will not end well…
Hat Tip: Crusader Rabbit.
President Obama’s budget for 2013 includes a limitation of how much people can put away in their IRA in order to save less than a billion dollars a year and to achieve greater “fairness.”
"Hero of Change" medal from The People's Cube
Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) would be limited to funding not more than about $200 thousand a year. While this may seem like a lot, expenses at the end of a persons life can be huge. The Obama administration’s attitude is that many people can “accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving.”
The problem isn’t a question of whether the amount of money is enough to provide a decent retirement. The problem is that the government is determining what “reasonable levels” are for people, and that the government should be in a position to limit in any way what people save to these so-called “reasonable levels.” Considering this came from the administration of a man who said that “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money,” it should come at no surprise that he wants to impose “reasonable” limits on how much people can put away in their IRAs for retirement, or even what is necessary for retirement.
Much of the argument comes from the leftist view of “fairness” and “justice.” In the view of many Progressives, equality of outcome is paramount, and that if someone has more than another, then the one with more must be brought down, even if it doesn’t help those with less. It is class warfare. It is hatred and vengeance. It is Obama’s Modus Operandi.
To sum of Obama’s view on other people’s retirement: “From each according to their abilities; to each according to their need.“
Obama has expressed his frustration with the 2nd Amendment and those who oppose the anti-civil liberties bills being passed and proposed across the country. He asks why “we” can’t pass gun control legislation when:
“Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place. It’s a government of and by and for the people.”
Ann Althouse pointed out that this implies that Obama isn’t really constrained because it is the people that constrain the government via elections, and since he was re-elected President, he is only constrained by the people’s choice of giving him power, which is really no constraint at all since it just constrains him to do what he wants, or at least what he deludes himself into believing what “the people” want. Althouse sums up this philosophy succinctly:
“Government is not to be regarded as in need of limits, because the government is us. Anything we — the government — want to do is never tyranny, but freedom.”
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has passed away at the age of 87.
There is no better way to explain just what she did and what she achieved than hear her words as she spoke them.
Margaret Thatcher on socialism:
News of the Week for Apr. 7th, 2013
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