Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Current Affairs

  • Arizona Senate Bill 1070

    Arizona Senate Bill 1070 "requires a reasonable attempt to be made to determine the immigration status of a person during any legitimate contact made by an official or agency of the state or a county, city, town . . . if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the U.S." …

  • James Kalb on Illegal Immigration

    Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed into law Arizona Senate Bill 1070.   Illegal aliens are of course up in arms over it.  But why do the ruling elites tend to tolerate mass illegal immigration?  Why are they not upholding the rule of law? James Kalb (The Tyranny of Liberalism, ISI Books, 2008, pp. 49-50) writes,…

  • Immigration and Usurpation

    Have you ever wondered why the elites support mass immigration?  See here.

  • Earth Day 2010

    Maverick Philosopher doesn't celebrate anything as politically correct as Earth Day.  Maverick Philosopher celebrates critical thinking.  So I refer you to William Cronon's The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.  A rich and subtle essay.  Excerpt: Many environmentalists who reject traditional notions of the Godhead and who regard themselves as agnostics or even atheists…

  • Immigration Legal and Illegal

    A reader from Down Under poses this question: America is experiencing immigration problems somewhat like Australia's. The idea of  'multiculturalism' some would say is beginning to show its flaws. Who do you believe should be allowed to enter your country? Please feel free to be as politically incorrect as you like.1. First of all, one…

  • Scenes From a Tea Party

    The party line of the Democrats and their fellow travellers is that the Tea Party Movement is fueled by racism.  The moral scum who make these absurd and scurrilous allegations ought to be ashamed of themselves.  I name names and go into details in other posts which you will find in the Race and Leftism…

  • The Racism Charge: The Left’s Attempt to Shut Down Debate

    In The Faith of a Liberal, Morris Raphael Cohen writes that "The touchstone that enables us to recognize liberalism is the question of toleration . . . ." Now if toleration is the touchstone of liberalism, there is nothing liberal about contemporary liberals.  They should therefore not be called 'liberals' but leftists.  There is nothing tolerant…

  • Feser on Stupak

    Stupak's Enablers.  This is a very rich post bristling with important distinctions.  Excerpt: There can be no question, then, that while the Church allows that government can legitimately intervene in economic life and in other ways come to the assistance of those in need, she also teaches that there is a presumption in justice against…

  • The Health Care Debate: What It’s Really About

    Here.  Fidel congratulates Obama. Excerpt from the second article: Doctors haven’t benefited very much,  either, from Cuba’s health care “miracle.” Because they earn the equivalent of only about $20 U.S. per month, Cuban physicians have quit the medical profession in droves — turning instead to the only industry that offers them any degree of economic opportunity: the Cuban tourism…

  • Welcome to Civil War

    To Dennis Prager's "The bigger the government the smaller the citizen," I add my "The bigger the government, the more to fight over."  The more the government takes over, the more they violate the individual liberty of the citizens, the more they insinuate themselves into every aspect of your life, the more protests, the more…

  • Bernard Goldberg on Health Care

    I enjoy Bernie Goldberg's commentary on The O'Reilly Factor and I generally agree with it.  But I just heard him say something that is not quite right.  He sees the leftist-conservative disconnect on the recent health care legislation in the following terms:  for leftists it is a moral and civil rights issue whereas for conservatives…

  • Green Fascism

    By not tuning into the Stupor Bowl yesterday, I missed some great commercials.  Here is one of them.  Ignore the bit about the Audi. The Tim Tebow pro-life ad seems to have stirred up some inane controversy, which fact prompts the question:  How many proctologists does it take to bring the average leftist loon's head…

  • The Jockstrap Bomber

    That's what I call him.  Michael Medved call hims the ding-a-ling bomber.  Whatever he and his ilk are called, they need to be stopped, and political correctness be damned.  Alan Dershowitz makes some suggestions in Stopping the Next Underwear Bomber.  Here is one of his excellent points: Nor have we learned enough from the near…

  • The Climate Science Isn’t Settled

    Three questions: Is global warming occurring?  Is is anthropogenic?  Is it sufficiently serious to warrant massive action?  There is no good reason to think that all three questions have an affirmative answer.  Here is an article by Richard S. Lindzen, professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What is truly disturbing in all this is the…

  • More on ClimateGate

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