How it’s like national gun registration.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Mexican Citizens Topple Drug Cartels
…and are rewarded with government retaliation:
If the liberty movement were not effective in its activism, if we did not present a legitimate threat to the criminal establishment, they would simply ignore us rather than seek to vilify us.
The militias of Michoacan have taken a stand. They have drawn their line in the sand, and I wish I could fight alongside them. Of course, we have our own fight and our own enemies to contend with here in the United States. As this fight develops, we have much to learn from the events in Western Mexico. Government retaliation has been met with widespread anger from coast to coast. And despite the general mainstream media mitigation of coverage, the American public is beginning to rally around the people of Michoacan as well. The non-participation principle prevails yet again.
The liberty movement in the U.S. must begin providing mutual aid and self-defense measures in a localized fashion if we have any hope of supplanting the effects of globalization and centralized Federal totalitarianism. We must begin constructing our own neighborhood watches, our own emergency response teams, our own food and medical supply stores, and our own alternative economies and trade markets that do not rely on controlled networks. We must break from the system and, in the process, break the system entirely.
It may be necessary if we continue to see illegal gangs allied with the legal ones. Let’s hope not. At least we’re seeing a new revolution against the corruption in Mexico.
No, Vance Brand
Safety should not be NASA’s highest priority. That way lies stagnation.
[Update a few minutes later]
Hey, Vance, was safety “the highest priority” for Apollo 8?
Leadership
Wendy Davis “Feminism”
…versus real feminism.
Also, fuzzy wording. As Glenn notes: “…she’s a Harvard-trained lawyer, but says she can’t express herself with precision. Is this what feminism looks like?”
Words mean whatever they say they mean.
Safe Is Not An Option
Jeff Foust has a review of the book (in the context of last week’s release of the 2013 ASAP report, which I’ve been meaning to comment on), over at The Space Review.
[Update a while later]
And of course the server at The Space Review would go down the day that he reviews my book. I must have crashed it with my link. 😉
The “L” Word
How the left stole the word “liberal” a century ago. We need to take it back. I refuse to call them that.
Jobs And Technology
A good survey at The Economist on the coming tsunami on unskilled labor, for which no government is prepared. They’re right that the most important thing is to reform K through post-grad education, root and branch, but there are a lot of entrenched interests that will continue to fight that.
Sex In The Popular Culture
Why it’s becoming drenched in it.
Politics And Pschology
Some thoughts on Jonathan Haidt’s work.
Note all the umbrage in comments from “liberals” (they’re not really — they’re leftists). But I’ve never seen them address the issue of why conservatives and libertarians are so much better at predicting a “liberal” viewpoint than the other way around.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bad link. Fixed now.