Category Archives: Politics

Paper finished… now what to do?

By Justin | March 5, 2008

Well, I suppose I could go to sleep for four hours. It’s 5:13, after all. But it’s pouring rain outside, and there’s a huge squall line of thunderstorms heading right for us: winds in excess of 60 mph are expected within the hour, according to the National Weather Service. Apparently there is a Flood Watch [...]

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A few things I’m thinking about

By Justin | February 20, 2008

From F. A. Hayek’s 1945 article “The Use of Knowledge in Society”: But those who clamor for “conscious direction”—and who cannot believe that anything which has evolved without design (and even without our understanding it) should solve problems which we should not be able to solve consciously—should remember this: The problem is precisely how to [...]

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A day of thoughts, both big and small

By Justin | February 6, 2008

It was actually two days of thoughts, big and small, but I really only remember the things that happened today, so I’m going to just blend them all into one. As you may guess, this is going to be one of those rambling stream-of-consciousness entries that jumps from topic to topic as they come to [...]

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Confession #96

By Justin | January 3, 2008

I am torn between supporting Kucinich or Edwards, and supporting Ron Paul. It’s like my political personality is so entirely dualist that I’m drawn to the farthest sides of each ideology (at least as they’re represented in the presidential candidates). The North American Union bit makes me very much inclined to support Paul. EDIT (2008-01-03 [...]

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More ranting about politics

By Justin | December 10, 2007

Liberals will never again rise to power in this country unless and until they can get rid of their intense pessimism toward, and assignment of blame upon, America. Share this entry:

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News flash: God not a big deal in America

By Justin | December 10, 2007

Apparently belief in God is a “vestigial” part of American life, subject to irrelevance in the near future. The kind of thing you’ll hear only at an ultra-liberal liberal arts university. From a 2003 Harris Interactive poll: The 90% of adults who believe in God include 93% of women, 96% of African-Americans and 93% of [...]

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Two interesting hyperlinks

By Justin | December 7, 2007

Heh, who actually calls a link a “hyperlink” anymore? Krugman of the Times makes fun of America’s messed up priorities. Reuters says Boston doesn’t suck anymore, since all our sports teams are mopping the floors with their competitors. Duh. Share this entry:

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A new kind of liberal guilt

By Justin | November 30, 2007

The first few sentences I’ve teased out of my brain for tonight’s paper: I agree in large measure with Barry Goldwater’s political vision as expressed in his book, The Conscience of a Conservative—though admittedly, I was at first quite reluctant to express such an association with conservative principles. I agree with Goldwater’s principled stand in [...]

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YouTube Republican debate

By Justin | November 29, 2007

I just watched some bits of the YouTube Republican debate. Interesting (and frustrating) on so many levels. It’s hard to know what’s actually reflective of America and the culture divide, and what’s CNN playing up the split and catering to a media-influenced caricature of the conservative Republican tradition, but the impression the viewer’s left with [...]

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The obligatory status-of-my-life entry

By Justin | November 15, 2007

Meh. Not much has been happening lately. I skipped Latin this morning, which was bad. But I was so sleepy! I still had yet to fully recover from the all-nighter I had pulled the night before, which in the end was pretty pointless, because the paper I wrote on-and-off during that night spent awake didn’t [...]

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