But evolution is just a theory?!!
29 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: evolution, The Age of Enlightenment
These unique fish live in tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.The Mudskippers live inhabit swampy sea coasts, where they can move on both dry land and in the water. Some Mudskippers can even climb small trees and branches with amazing agility for a creature that’s considered a fish
Henry Simons on the advantages of the market as an allocation and distribution mechanism
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Ron Radosh » The American Left: Friends of Our Country’s Enemies
27 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, war and peace Tags: Can there be a decent Left, Leftover Left, The superiority of Western civilisation
The American Left used to be patriotic. In its heyday, Eugene V. Debs never attacked America, and the socialist vision he advocated was in his eyes a way to realize the promise of America.
As for the American Communist Party, in reality the tool of Stalin’s USSR, it pretended in the 1940s to be pro-American, and its chairman, Earl Browder, coined the slogan “Communism is 20th century Americanism.” This pretence came to an end during the Cold War, when the Left supported the Soviet bloc and all of its policies, and argued that America was in the process of becoming a nascent fascist state.
The remnants of the ’60s New Left identified with America’s new enemies, especially North Vietnam, Communist Cuba, the PLO, and, in the ’80s, Sandinista Nicaragua. After 9/11, many of its adherents took the position that the United States had the terror attack coming to it, since the perpetrators had taken 3000 lives in protest against America’s imperial ambitions and control.
This led Michael Walzer, the social-democratic intellectual, to pen an article called “Can There Be a Decent Left?” Walzer courageously took on many of those on his side of the spectrum, hitting them for accepting the “blame America first” doctrine to explain foreign policy defeats; for not criticizing any peoples or nations in the Third World; for believing in what he called “rag-tag Marxism”; for failing to oppose dangerous jihadists and Islamist states; and for refusing to blame anyone else for the world’s wrong except the United States.
I wonder what Walzer would write today if he examined his article anew. If one looks around at the Left’s response to Hamas’ actions in Gaza and its attacks on Israel, and its view of Islamist fascism in countries like Iran, Syria and among the ISIS forces seeking to take over Iraq, it is clearer than ever that the Left has one function — to support the enemies of democracy.
Operating in the United States, Britain and France, the Western Left takes the opportunity to speak freely in the democracies in which they live, to openly support and express their solidarity with democracy’s most fervent enemies.
via Ron Radosh » The American Left: Friends of Our Country’s Enemies.
The first law of left-wing policy making
25 Sep 2014 3 Comments
in liberalism, Public Choice Tags: Leftover Left, progressive politics
HT: Heartland Institute
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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