Tuesday, January 31, 2006

We're all libertarians now. According to David Boaz: ... it could be that most Americans are, in fact, liberals and conservatives. Maybe Gallup is wrong, every year. But the exit polls on election day 2004 offer some confirmation. According to those polls, 17 million voted for John Kerry but did not think the government should do more to solve the country's problems. And 28 million Bush voters support either gay marriage or civil unions. That's 45 million who don't fit the polarized model. They seem to have broadly libertarian attitudes. In fact, it's no secret that libertarian voters make up a chunk of America. But you'd never know it from watching TV -- or listening to our elected politicians. By Stephan Kinsella. [LewRockwell.com Blog] Right, that's why 99.5% of them voted for a socialist warmonger that day. Or maybe David Boaz just doesn't have a clue what a libertarian attitude is. comment () trackback ()  12:48:45 PM     Who Fakes the Nazis?. Jacques Pluss, a part-time history professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, was fired last year after a mysterious... [Hit and Run] I have no problem with a university firing a professor for being a Nazi. In a free society, anyone has the right to be a Nazi--just as everyone else has the right to refuse them employment, food, housing, etc. so that they end up starving to death in a gutter. What I'd like to know, though, is how many professors were fired last year throughout the United States for being Communists. comment () trackback ()  11:58:08 AM     Stop It—You're Killing Me!. Michael Siegel lays into Action on Smoking and Health for pushing outdoor smoking bans by claiming that transient exposure to... [Hit and Run] Here's the absurd claim the Safety Nazis are pushing: "For example, the Centers for Disease Controls [CDC] has warned that breathing drifting tobacco smoke for as little as 30 minutes (less than the time one might be exposed outdoors on a beach, sitting on a park bench, listening to a concert in a park, etc.) can raise a nonsmoker's risk of suffering a fatal heart attack to that of a smoker." Whoever made that up really needs to think through the implications of his or her propaganda a little better. Pretty much everybody is exposed to drifting tobacco smoke for 30 minutes sometime during the course of their lives. And if everyone is going to die of the demon tobacco anyway, that pretty much kills the rational for having smoking bans. comment () trackback ()  11:47:52 AM

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