Doc Zero attributes the modern idea of natural law to Hobbes. This is backwards. Hobbes originated the modern idea of facism. It was John Locke that originated the modern idea of natural rights deriving from natural law.
Category: liberty
How many CRA loans, how much affirmative action payout?
From 2000 to 2007, blacks and hispanics received six hundred and thirteen billion dollars more in home purchase mortgages than they would have received had they received the same proportion of the money that they received in 1999 – a figure that strikingly resembles the total cost of the bailout. In 1999, people warned that CRA loans, affirmative action loans, racial quota loans, began to endanger the financial system Fannie …
Court appointed lawyers
Texas Child Protective Services wishes to “protect†Teresa Jeffs from being sexually abused – which “protection†has a curious resemblance to charging her with practicing polygamy while white. The courts have appointed Natalie Malonis to supposedly represent her and two other polygamist “childrenâ€, which lawyer has been conducting trial by media against her supposed client: “I believe that [Teresa Jeffs] was avoiding service because of coercion and improper influence from …
Hatred of softly influential groups
Wherever a group has disproportionate economic or cultural success that does not rest upon political power, does not involve the ability to kill people and break things, does not depend upon hard power, for example Jews, Americans, Indonesian Chinese, Indian Fijians, Indians in Africa, the Ibo in Africa, the same hatred occurs, the same accusations, the same fantasies, the same excessive and disproportionate attention, the same concoction of utterly trivial …
A better ID card
Digital Identity Forum has a better solution for ID. Instead of an ID card that tells any purported authority everything about you, an ID smart card that verifies what authority the authority actually possesses, and reveals the minimum information that that authority is authorized to know, for example that you are over 18, to be read by cell phone with nfc cardreader.
Europe can’t stop anything
The military weakness and incapacity of Europe in Serbia startled the Serbs, even more than America’s capacity stunned them.
Happiness is a warm gun
Reasons gun owners are happier.
Texas protective services commits perjury again
We now know that “Sarah†is a thirty three year old democratic party political activist. What do you think the prospects are that Child Protective Services will be charged with perjury?
Liberty needs to survive
Liberty always costs blood, and freedom will always require forms of social organization capable of killing people in substantial numbers.