Posts Tagged ‘ slavery ’

Slavery, A First World Tendency

Jul 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
Traveling grants perspective. We can't be sure, but we think this must be especially true for Americans... Americans long ago settled for convenience over freedom: Paved roads and more commercial space per capita than any other nation on earth... to go along with various prohibitions on personal behavior, expanded domestic spying ...read more

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Government, Slavery and the State

Jan 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but ...read more

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What Can We Learn from 1860?

Nov 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
One of my friends read “Should We Talk About Secession,” an article just posted on the ‘net. He’s from the wild and wooly Montana-Idaho-Wyoming school of thought and commented, “I’ve been talking about it for two years.” Woohoo...some of us have been talking about it since 1840. I haven’t read the piece ...read more

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Safety Net: The Path to Slavery

Sep 28th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
For those that grew up in a “typical” family, it was always comforting to know that “daddy” was always there to protect and support you, and “mommy” was always there to comfort you and heal you. It was a pleasant feeling to know that someone was always there to take ...read more

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Political Intolerance

May 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’ve heard a lot lately about how we need to be tolerant of one another’s political views.  I hear this, I suspect, because I’m not tolerant of most people’s politics.  I’m told we can have a good argument about our positions on the issues, but when we’re done, we must ...read more

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