Showing posts with label John Locke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Locke. Show all posts
Saturday, September 10, 2022

World mourns death of queen Elizabeth II

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 That queen Elizabeth lived sixty-nine, and reigned forty-five years, means no more than that the duration of her existence was equal to six...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

John Locke did not believe in a chosen people, American let alone Jewish

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 In the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another the least pretence to have the right of inheritan...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

If 42% of your wealth comes from the stock market, YOU ARE AN IDIOT and deserve everything that's coming to you

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 The is-is-ought fallacy in action. In today’s environment, the notion that the stock market isn’t the economy doesn’t hold up anymore : “I...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

The passionate are mislead

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All the art of rhetorick, besides order and perspicuity, only moves the passions, and thereby misleads the judgment. -- John Locke (16...
Friday, June 30, 2017

If you're a big fan of John Locke, you're not a conservative

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Read What is Conservatism? to understand why.
Friday, February 14, 2014

Federal Judge Appointed By Obama In Marriage Ruling Says "All Men Are Created Equal" Comes From The Constitution

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Another mediocrity appointed by Obama proves the worthlessness of her degrees from Kutztown State College and the North Carolina Central Uni...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Sean Hannity's Libertarianism Is Stupid

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The radio ad for Sean Hannity's program runs incessantly, featuring him saying, "Society doesn't need to put its seal of approv...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

What A Shock: The New Republic Defends Crony Capitalism

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Michael Kazin for The New Republic here  argues that crony capitalism isn't really that big a deal because it is pretty much as old as t...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Whatever Ann Coulter is, it isn't Conservative

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Whatever Ann Coulter is, it isn't conservative. At least since her endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2008 we've had, on the other ha...
Monday, March 7, 2011

John Locke Believed in Neither Sodomy nor Same Sex Marriage

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From the First Treatise of Government: Be it then, as Sir Robert says, that anciently it was usual for men to sell and castrate their child...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Gold's Gift: Stable, Long-Term, Low Interest Rates

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In Great Britain thanks to John Locke and William of Orange, as discussed here  by Nathan Lewis. The gold standard: The sine qua non for ...