people and groups that subscribe to Hobbesianism find themselves at war against all, because they expect to find themselves at war against all – but find to their shock and surprise that their non Hobbesian enemies are cooperating just fine to deal with the common enemy and common threat. Thus people and groups that subscribe to Hobbesianism get defeated, and frequently enslaved or wiped out. All those who doubt Hobbesianism gang up on them.
Category: politics
Audit the Federal Reserve
No member of congress wants to be seen to oppose the audit – but such an audit is extremely unlikely, for no member of congress, with the possible exception of Ron Paul, wants the public to know what the Fed has been up to – still less do they want America’s creditors to know what the Fed has been up to.
Obama’s public private partnership
government support for developers meant that developers had an incentive to be active in politics, and be good at political activism, but no incentive to be active in preventing the roof from leaking, or the roof from falling in.
Losing in Afghanistan
The winner in a guerrilla war is the side that most brutally terrorizes the population. Our troops lack the stomach for what it takes to win a guerrilla war, so more troops will not help.
Obama care in twenty words.
Obamacare is a proposal to redistribute health care from those who voted against Obama, to those who voted for Obama.
The error of conservatism
the female sexual impulse, evolved in a world of patriarchy and strong social restraint on female sexuality, is maladaptive in a world of equal position within status hierarchies and no external sexual restraint.
The Amazing Brilliance of Sarah Palin
Palin described “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act” as death panels. The Cathedral, (meaning the MSM, the politicians, the professoriat, senior public servants, and assorted people employed in the upper reaches of the ever more numerous quasi governmental organizations) react with apocalyptic outrage – thereby drawing the public’s attention to various parts of the act that are, indeed, death panels. Sarah Palin smiles sweetly and lets them hammer themselves to pulp. …
Denying Darwinism
There is on the blogs a lot of debate as to when the idea of common descent and the tree of life originated – “genetic futureâ€, as usual, gets it correct, “Panda’s Thumb†gets it correct, and “genetic inferenceâ€and “evolving thoughts†as always, get it politically correct. From any political post of “genetic inference†and “evolving thoughts†you can deduce that they will lie about Darwin, and conversely from the …
Purple shirts:
Hotair thinks this will rebound against the Obama, but history tells us otherwise. People love the strong horse, and despise the weak horse, and beating people up looks very much like strength if you can get away with it.
Off budget deficit
Long ago, the government found a new way to run a deficit:Â Create a nominally private business with government appointed management, to carry out a government directed mission.Â