Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Politics on Sep 18th, 2008
Robert Higgs, author of the libertarian work Crisis and Leviathan, explained one of my key issues with “temporary powers” granted to government in times of emergencies:
One aspect of my model, however, has received relatively little notice, although I have always regarded it as especially important. That is the notion that episodes of crisis and abrupt [...]
Jim Henley hit it on the head (again):
My kids bought me an insurance company! Sweet children: they don’t even have jobs yet.
I’m really looking forward to helping pick up the tab for the past several decades worth of government fiscal mismanagement in this country.
But not to worry folks! Our plucky moose-hunting Reformer (and incidentally that [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 12th, 2008
I just saw a quote that I think illustrates a clear difference between the two prospective presidential candidates, on the topic of the right of Habeas Corpus:
Calling it “the foundation of Anglo-American law,” he said the principle “says very simply: If the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 6th, 2008
I know I don’t post on politics that often, and I don’t want to turn this site into yet another political punditry place. Quite frankly there’s far more than enough blogs like that out there, and the light to heat ratio among political blogs is pretty darned lousy. That said, I wanted to [...]
I know I’m late to the game, but there’s been a lot of navel gazing of the past week about what people wrote back on the eve of the Iraq War, and typically “what they got wrong.” Because, quite frankly, a lot of the blogosphere, and the media elites were painfully wrong about a [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 10th, 2008
This country has immigration problems.
Case in point. A good friend of our family here in town is an immigrant who has been living in the US since around when she was 6 or so (about a dozen years). She’s about to graduate from high school, and would like to save up for college. [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 4th, 2008
I really hate to bump such a good post as Ken’s last one from the top of the list (go read it if you haven’t had a chance yet), but I’ve been meaning to say something about this year’s Presidential election for some time now. Tomorrow’s primary day here in California (and about half [...]
Posted in ESAS, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, NASA, Politics, Space Development, Space Law, Space Policy on Jan 25th, 2008
I’ve had several people in several places ask me if I was going to do a point-by-point rebuttal of Mike Griffin’s comments to the STA this week (for reference the text of his comments is available here). While I don’t have the time to go into every single disagreement I have with what he [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 13th, 2007
So, apparently a few days ago on the Jay Leno show, Ron Paul made the claim that getting rid of the federal personal income tax would only cut federal revenues to the point they were at in the year 2000. The Washington Post, in nitpicking him revealed a rather depressing bit of information [...]