Yesterday, in the comments to DougJ’s post about Dahlia Lithwick’s excellent Supreme Court piece, I wrote the following: I read that this morning and it was a point by point clear indictment that, by the end, you felt it came to an inarguable conclusion. And then my first thought was “How long before Nick Gillespie …
Glibertarianism
Deficit attention disorder
It may be unfair to blame Michael Kinsley for Mickey Kaus, Charles Lane, Gregg Easterbrook, and Megan McArdle, just as it is unfair to blame Quentin Tarantino for Guy Ritchie. But there’s certainly no question that Kinsley pioneered a certain style — call it glib, neo-liberal contrarianism — that his intellectual heirs eventually ran into …
Poor Little Rich Boys
This piece, titled “The Rage of the Privileged Class,” is guaranteed to give your blood pressure a good bump: As the hue and cry to return the money grew, the traders had thought that Liddy would stand up for them. The ruddy-faced, 63-year-old former Allstate CEO, who had been installed by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson …
If This Guy Had Any Self-Awareness, This Post Would Humiliate Him
Brad “DeLing” takes some wingnut law professor to school. What is it with law profs, btw? And has he thought about going Galt and withdrawing all his productivity?
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McMoron
When the government says “Hey- health insurers, we’re not going to let you lie to the public,” our lady of the free market blows a gasket. And gets a whole bunch of shit wrong in the process. Seriously- how out of whack does your thought process have to be that you consider government regulators frowning …
Libertarian Carl Paladino
In his interview of Carl Paladino, Rick Sanchez spent a lot of time discussing mosque construction in Manhattan, but here’s the most interesting part for the libertarians who endorsed him: he wants to use the right of eminent domain to seize the Burlington Coat Factory and turn it into a 9/11 memorial. He also believes …
They’re Trying to Kill Me
Matt Welch at Reason: One way of interpreting O’Donnell’s upset victory is as a sign that insane anti-masturbators are emerging from America’s fever swamps and marching toward Capitol Hill, ready to sic ex-gay-ministry counselors on Barney Frank in the unlikely event they can get past Democrats on Nov. 2. And maybe that’s true. But I …