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• • 30 Oct 08
  • 3:47 pm

  I wouldn't crow too loudly just yet, conditions always change and conservative over-reach will be followed by leftist over-reach. Also, a lot of the current economic problems that are being blamed on "market failure" are actually government failure.

  Posted to Thanks for the Memories, Wingnuts

• • 07 Sep 07
  • 3:57 pm

  Wolf, your post on this is actually pretty good. Although "capitalism" (what I think is more accurately called free enterprise) does involve competition it is much more about cooperation between people and businesses.

  Posted to A Freegan World

• • 11 Aug 07
  • 10:56 am

  There are serious questions about the accuracy of Rigoberta Menchu's book "I, Rigoberta Menchu". She did not come from a completely impoverished family as she stated in her book but one relatively prosperous by Guatemalan standards. This article could have at least acknowledge some of the controversies about the book that made her famous.

  Posted to Civil War by Other Means

• • 09 Jul 07
  • 8:37 pm

  "Second and far less important, I have to confess that my own values may be a little different from Hans’. While he criticizes the “radical court majority assailing precedents,” I must say that I’m not a huge fan of precedent nor am I strongly opposed to radical change as such. In fact, there are several radical and highly disruptive Court decisions of the Warren Court (notably Baker v. Carr, the “one man, one vote” case, and Griswold v. Connecticut, which inferred a right to marital privacy from the Constitution and provided much of the intellectual foundation for Roe v. Wade) that …

  Posted to God--And Progressives--Save This Honorable Court!

• • 11 Jul 07
  • 11:19 am

  "I believe that both Gore and Kerry were deprived of the presidency by voter fraud which includes voter intimidation, electronic vote tampering and voter rolls suppression, ala Choicepoint." Beliefs are not evidence, Tigertiger. I've never seen any credible evidence to support any of your allegations. Scorp at least provides a link to Hanson's article. Since you are the one making the allegations you should at least offer some supporting evidence. My belief is that the charges of voter fraud were made by those on the left for partisan political gain. The Supreme Court made the right decision. See, two can play …

  Posted to God--And Progressives--Save This Honorable Court!