All Blog Posts Tagged 'libertarian' (4)

New Thread: What are “Secular Humanist Politics”?

“..a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them free to otherwise to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

There’s no debate about what “religious…

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Added by Alan Perlman on August 19, 2012 at 1:00pm — 11 Comments

Why are Christians conservative?

Whether it's a well-known concept or not, the hypocrisy of modern Christians is startling. Well, not startling when you realize (to even their admittance) that they do not read their own Bible. But startling to us who have, and have gleaned from its pages some positive things.

Don't get me wrong, the Old Testament is worth being burned (and as a hard-core reader, who faints when the page of a book is torn, that's something for me to…

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Added by Ava Wilson on August 12, 2011 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments

Video: Dissecting the “insane conservative women” meme

Bloggingheads.tv - Dissecting the “insane conservative women” meme

A Libertarian and a Conservative discuss the apparent battiness of some prominent conservative women - Christine O'Donnell , Sarah Palin, Anne Coulter, Michele Bachmann, Sharron Angle, etc.

I just stumbled across this while scanning the…

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Added by George on September 21, 2010 at 11:58pm — No Comments

Taking on Libby (libertarian) bullshit: The Market Will Take Care of It

You know of those religious people who say “God will provide”, the Libby equivalent to that is “the market will take care of it”. While Libbies do not apply it to everything they do apply it to the economy, job markets, etc.

The market does not take care of things, it doesn’t even take care of it self much of the time. What is dose and doesn’t do depends on the many variables (supply, demand, how much money people have, how much people are wiling to spend, how many people there are,… Continue

Added by Lone Wolf on August 16, 2010 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments