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Saving Lives is Not Quite Enough — Response #2 to John Fensel

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1859, 13th November, 2011

In conversations with John Fensel, I’ve noticed two major things that seem to happen. First, we each produce massive amounts of written material. Second, our disagreements in many areas are so fundamental that we constantly find ourselves needing to dig much deeper than the specific issue we started with in the need to resolve things. [...]

Posted in uncategorized | Also tagged food stamps., hunger, poverty | 5 Comments

Liberalism as Denial — A Response to John Fensel

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2316, 10th November, 2011

I recently wrote a post entitled The Political Future of the US is Right-Wing, which I opened with the following (numbers in brackets not in original, “liberal” throughout refers to the term as generally used in the United States): It is a gross simplification, but I’ll say it. The difference between liberalism and conservatism (as [...]

Posted in uncategorized | Also tagged america's great depression (book), britain, clinton, conservatives, demographics, disenfranchisement, economic law, economics, energy, exploitation of natural resources, fdr, firefighters, food stamps., greenspan, hinduism, hindus, human action (book), imperialism, incentives, inequality, infant sacrifice, jesus huerta de soto, ken read, liberals, ludwig von mises, money, money bank credit and economic cycles (book), moral superiority, murray rothbard, positive law, price hill, reproduction, right wing politics, sati, socialism, south america, the ghetto, the mystery of baking (book), the right to vote, the us, utopia, venezuela, violence, welfare, widow-burning, william carey | 2 Comments

a sliver of irony that brightens my day, and sobers me up

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1705, 26th April, 2010

I’m in a political science class right now, which a friend recommended, and it’s been an eye-opener for understanding exactly how ingrained in American thinking our obsession with democracy is. And the professor’s not attacking democracy. The case is exactly the opposite–we have a professor whose unqualified praise of democracy should make those who watch [...]

Posted in uncategorized | Also tagged greece, irony, italy, national debt, pigs nations, portugal, spain | 3 Comments

On the recent house bill, socialism, etc.

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1347, 22nd March, 2010

As most likely all of you know, there was a very significant healthcare bill passed yesterday. A friend of mine went so far as to say (via facebook), Hurray, the United States government just declared the Church is officially off the hook in regards to the care of the sick and infirm. Now all we [...]

Posted in bloated government, economics | Also tagged abortion, executive order, gdp, government spending, gross domestic product, healthcare, kim jung il, medicine, national debt, obama, obamacare, overregulation, poverty, socialism, united states, warren buffet | 1 Comment

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