Marriage in Totalitarian States Totalitarian states can often have a weird relationship with marriage. By definition a totalitarian state postures itself as the supreme authority over its people. So when a marital relationship comes along with the two people proclaiming undying fealty for one another until death, I can see where the State may get…
In the book Death by Government, the author goes through an amazing amount of detail regarding deaths through government fiat. For today’s post I pulled out a couple quotes discussing not just death through government fiat, but specifically when those deaths are utterly meaningless, meaning death for no other real reason then to meet a…
** This post is in draft form and has been published due to it becoming overly complicated and long. I will re-approach some of these questions from a smaller article viewpoint** Introduction Over the past couple articles I’ve started to build up to what will hopefully be this post. I discussed the faux differences between…
Election Night Medley Recently Randy Barnett wrote a post on why the Libertarian Party is a “mistake” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203922804578080684214526670.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop I find it funny because I also think the Libertarian Party is a mistake; but for completely different reasons. As a libertarian (small “l” as I am not a member of any Party) I advocate the elimination…
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any…
The Economical Engineer 