Government is a disease that is mistaken for a cure.
I have promised? threatened? to end this blog and its predecessor, Liberty Corner, several times since the inception of Liberty Corner in 2004. And those promises/threats were good for weeks and months. But the temptation to speak my mind overcame my desire to use my time more productively (if not more enjoyably). I am now Continue reading -30-
“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal [Pensées, Fragment 277] “Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.” David Hume [Treatise, II.III.III] “Where there is no law, there is no freedom.” John Locke [Second Treatise, VI.57] The purpose of studying economics is not to Continue reading Thoughts for Today: 02/24/2016
In Obama and Probability I neglected to link to three pertinent posts: Understanding the Monty Hall Problem The Compleat Monty Hall Problem Settled Science and the Monty Hall Problem Enjoy.
From The Epoch Times: Former U.S. President Barack Obama said in a Feb. 14 podcast interview that aliens are real but that none are kept at the secretive Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert, later adding that he didn’t see any evidence indicating that extraterrestrials have contacted Earth during his presidency. In the Continue reading Obama and Probability
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas [Paraphrase of themes in Summa Contra Gentiles I.6 and Summa Theologiae II–II, q.1.] Law is a system of rules, but its authority depends on a shared social practice of recognition. H.L.A. Hart [Paraphrase Continue reading Thoughts for Today: 02/16/2026
I ve been occupied by a lot of things since my previous post more than three months ago. One of the things is a treatise on liberty in America, which will appear in due course, that is, when I m satisfied with it. In the meantime, you might enjoy an excursion into my writings about the frailties Continue reading Science and Truth
Despite some appearances to the contrary, the tide of statism in the United States is ebbing. Mr. Trump is turning the power of the state against the forces that have used its power to weaken America economically and to poison it morally and culturally. The battle for liberty will not end soon, nor ever. Lovers Continue reading Never Relent
Less poetic than the first edition, but perhaps worth a chuckle or two. Geezer s trousers High rise Chain gang Con job Antics in the attic High jinks Raging rabbits Cross hares Rome vs. Carthage Punic attacks Sicilian swine Guinea pig French film Subtitled subtlety Champagne flight Altitude Continue reading Wordplay II
The latest issue of Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College, is by Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist. Hemingway s entry, The Significance of the Recently Released Russia Hoax Documents , is an excellent summary of the origins and perpetuation of the Trump-Russia hoax and its vile consequences. The piece is short. You should read it. If Continue reading Obamagate: An Update
White Heat is the title of a 1949 film noir, what stars James Cagney as a psychotic criminal, Arthur Cody Jarrett. Wikipedia supplies some highlights: Cody and his gang rob a mail train in the Sierra Nevada mountains, killing four members of the train s crew. While on the lam, Cody has a severe migraine, through Continue reading White Heat and the Present Threat of Nuclear War