Today at Townhall.com, an analysis of Jon Stewart’s defense of his “socialism.”
Links that may interest you, where all “big questions” get addressed. Well, a few big questions, anyway:
- “You’re all a bunch of socialists!” – Ludwig von Mises storms out of a Mont Pelerin gathering
- Ailes on Stewart – Stewart on Ailes (Daily Show link No. 1)
- Stewart defends his brand of socialism (Daily Show link No. 2)
- Ludwig von Mises’ classic Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis – one of the great classics of social theory and politics
- Ludwig von Mises’ Interventionism: An Economic Analysis – recovered from an earlier book published in the German language
- “Social Security Beyond Retirement Age” – Common Sense by Paul Jacob – on Paul Krugman’s swindle cover-up
- “The late great Social Security swindle” – a column originally appearing on Townhall.com – about the BIG QUESTION Jon Stewart wittily avoids talking about
On June 2, 1774, the Quartering Acts were passed by British Parliament, part of a package of punitive acts devised as a response to colonial unrest. The acts did not have the desired effect; they did not quell resistence. Instead, they became known as the “Intolerable Acts,” and helped fuel the fires of secession, leading to the American Revolution.
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling. Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won’t. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.
On June 1, 2009, General Motors files for bankruptcy. The natural course of this fourth largest official business failure was forestalled by the auto maker bailout, which progressives would later ballyhoo as a complete success in that investors and businesses would jump on the rescued company – which is what would have happened in an unbailed-out bankruptcy, anyway.
On May 31, 455, the Roman Emperor Flavius Petronius Maximus dies, soon followed by the Vandal sack of Rome. In a system without terms or term limits for rulers, his 78 days at the top of the Western Roman Empire ended as so many did, in violence – in this case by being stoned by an angry mob while fleeing the capital. His body was flung into the Tiber.
Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm.