Category: Current Affairs
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The Medical-Industrial Complex, Part II
Part I is here. The liberal-leftist animus against corporations is undoubtedly excessive, as is their pollyannish trust in Big Government solutions to every problem under the sun; but this should not blind us to corporate irresponsibility especially when the corporate types work hand-in-hand with liberals to 'medicalize' the ordinary difficulties of life.
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The Medical-Industrial Complex
No doubt you have heard of ADD. Recently I learned of a new medical condition known as ADHD: attention deficit hyperactive disorder. What could be called the medical-industrial complex is a curious alliance of soft-headed liberals eager to invent diseases and celebrate their 'victims' and money-grubbing corporate types out to turn a quick buck. Liberals…
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Merton, Marilyn, and David Carradine
Thomas Merton, Journal (IV, 240), writing about Marilyn Monroe around the time of her death in 1962: . . .the death was as much a symbol as the bomb – symbol of uselessness and of tragedy, of misused humanity. He’s right of course: Monroe’s was a life wasted on glamour, sexiness, and frivolity. She serves…
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The Irrationality of Playing the Lottery
I have posted several times over the years on the irrationality of playing the lottery and on the immorality of state sponsorship and promotion (via deceptive advertising) of lotteries. The following e-mail, however, raises an interesting question that gives me pause: As I was reading this story of an impoverished young rancher who won $88 million net…
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Taxation and Liberty
On 17 April I wrote: Taxation, then, is a liberty issue before it is a 'green eyeshade' issue: the more the government takes, the less concrete liberty you have. Without money you can't get your kids out of a shitty public school system that liberals have destroyed with their tolerate-anything mentality; without money you cannot…
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Taxation: A Liberty Issue
Despite their name, liberals seem uninterested or insufficiently interested in the 'real' liberties, those pertaining to property, money, and guns, as opposed to the 'ideal' liberties, those pertaining to freedom of expression. A liberal will go to any extreme when it comes to defending the right to express his precious self no matter how inane…
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Oregon Liberals Impose Regressive Tax on Joe Sixpack
Yet another example of the misuse of government's coercive power by liberals is documented by the WSJ in This Tax Is for You. And you voted for these irresponsible scum? Then you will get what you deserve for being stupid.