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Robert Nozick

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

Not Term Limited
Swapping out Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate …
The Other Maine Thing
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The Election Addiction Fiction
Poor Willie Brown. Ever since California slapped term limits on …
Burial Rites
Libyan dictator Mu’ammer Gaddafi is dead. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez …
Another OK Court Decision?
Here’s another interesting court decision in Oklahoma. Oh, this time …

Thought of the Day

[T]here is a proverbial maxim which bears witness to the advantage sometimes possessed by an observant bystander over those actually engaged in any transaction. “The looker-on often sees more of the game than the players.” Now the looker-on is precisely (in Greek) ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον the theorist.
When then you find any one contrasting, in this and in other subjects, what he calls experience, with theory, you will usually perceive on attentive examination, that he is in reality comparing the results of a confined, with that of a wider, experience; — a more imperfect and crude theory, with one more cautiously framed, and based on a more copious induction.
Richard Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1832), Lecture III.

— Richard Whately

Memes (refresh for more)

Government
You can’t feed a part of it without feeding the whole damn …
Equality vs. Freedom
“A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of …
Wasted Votes
“The only wasted vote is a vote cast without conviction.” –Daniel Hannan …
How Socialism Kills
3 Ways That Socialism Kills: state enforced redistribution requires violence (even if some …
What Kind of Ice Cream Cone?
When I wrote about the Donald’s change of troop positions abroad …

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