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Wow.  Just like that this article goes from talking about "limited government" to a debate not on whether the welfare state should exist but how big it should be to giving us dumb schmucks who couldn't follow the right shell two choices, modern European socialism or American neo-conservatism...

This comment by one of the detractors is hilarious.  Who doe this moron think creates everything that he touches, eats, lives in and drives? Producers.

Almost certainly... :D

And what about their security clearances?

Next card to be slipped from the deck will be the discrimination card based on the couples "alternative lifestyle" no doubt. ::)

As far as I know there was no intent to "cause work" the intent was to discredit two other people who held that job.  From what I saw I believe this was a personally motivated vendetta. These two thought their shit didn't stink and they wanted to rub some other people's noses in it. I don't...

Occam, Sinclair was the senior IMN on the watch, a position conferred by both her time in the position and the leadership in NDCC.  She'd been working there for a couple of years when her partner was posted in.

I hope they are both released.  To hell with the implications to them, the implications to the CF of what they did are far greater than most people here know. The CF has no responsibility to care about their future, these two have broken their oath, they have violated the trust the CF placed in...

I'd never suggest that Objectivists would evade the reality that some people do believe in inherited power. ;)

I'd place the Objectivists at the 6 o'clock position. :) Sufficiently separated from Libertarians by philosophy, sufficiently separated from anarchists by the recognition for the need of government and directly and diametrically opposed to the idea that any man should hold a position (throne)...

Speaking of Zimbabwe, I have been emailing a guy there who is into all things ZDF this is his website, and he has informed me that last year according to the Zimbabwe hansard that Mugabe and his thugs spent 90 million dollars on new equipment purchases for the year ending 2007.  No not 90...

While I agree with Edward that Africa is one big problem perhaps a separate sub forum for all things Africa could be set up in the Politics section?

These rights are non-contradictory, which is to say that the institution of them does not interfere with any other persons rights.  My right to life, that is to say my right to make my way in this world so long as I do not initiate force* through violence, theft or fraud does not stop anyone...

It's much deeper than that.  In my opinion it goes all the way back to the founding documents of this country that allow the wholesale expansion of government into private and market sectors.  Don't even get me started on that PC, let's all sing kumbaya, piece of reform liberal, social...

Historically perhaps but our system has evolved away from controlling the King's excess to the point where the guys we elect are worse than the King in the first place. 

Agreed, take away the almost unlimited ability to tax and spend, separate government and the economy and return government to the basic functions of Defense of rights, defense of the nation and ensuring the rule of law and see how many politicians line up to make such mundane duties their life's...

Excluding forms of PR that give seats in legislative bodies based on nation wide percentages or numbers of voters, a "lunatic fringe" must still garner enough votes in a single riding (over all the non-lunatics) to win the seat.  The single transferable vote system is one example of this in...

Should be an F16 report, as in Drop a 1000 pound JDAM on both their asses.

I'm willing to bet he didn't... he was probably blinded by the froth spilling out of his mouth at the thought of an actual cabinet post.  That would have been quite a feat for the leader of the party that placed fourth in a national election.

So what exactly are you saying here?  With new rules governing political donations no one is allowed to give that much really, but regardless, you are completely dropping the context of the conversation none the less.  We are talking about $1.95 a year.  Even the poorest of the poor can afford...