tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249158352011-04-21T13:22:50.538-05:00Liberty is not an innate human condition. It must be gained and kept through politics and war.Thomasnoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24915835.post-1144506542501099422008-03-28T10:36:00.001-05:002008-03-28T10:39:31.775-05:00

This is a temporary blog that I maintained while I was moving Liberty Corner from Typepad back to Blogspot. All of the posts at this temporary blog can be found also at http://libertycorner.us (alternative URL: http://libertycorner.blogspot.com).

Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24915835.post-1144356724794819262006-04-06T15:50:00.000-05:002006-04-06T16:34:24.333-05:00

Laurels to[t]wo Ukraininan doctors, Vadym Lazaryev and Vladymyr Ishchenko, [who] have been seeking asylum in Ireland since 2004, after they were forced to flee their country for exposing appalling human rights abuses of women and unborn children in the Ukraine.The doctors were part of a group working to uncover a macabre system of medical trafficking in the bodies of unborn babies, European Life

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Occam of the Carbuncle improves on my analysis of communitarianism:. . . Liberty Corner offers a convenient compass for navigating the political jungle."The communitarian state is simply too seductive. It co-opts its citizens through progressive corruption: higher spending to curry favor with voting blocs, higher taxes to fund higher spending and to perpetuate the mechanisms of the state, still

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My posts to date:It's Time for Plain Talk about Illegal ImmigrationAs I Was Saying about ImmigrationSocietal SuicideMore about ImmigrationMy Diagnosis and PrognosisIn addition to the links to relevant material that I've included in those posts, there's "Immigrating Terror," published today at FrontPageMag.com.UPDATE (9:50 pm): There's more from the Maverick Philosopher. (Be sure to follow his

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UPDATED 04/04/06This message is prompted by the attempt to hijack the "melting pot" concept for the advancement of the welfare-regulatory state. The "melting pot" -- properly understood -- refers to the assimilation of immigrants to the prevailing culture and rule of law, not to the subversion of that culture and rule of law by a wave of illegal immigrants and their Leftist proponents.Not all

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I wrote about immigration here and here. Noted economist Greg Mankiw (who now has a blog) seconds one of my key points. Here's Mankiw:The hard issues tend to revolve around the immigration of unskilled workers, who are more likely to drain resources from the social safety net and increase U.S. income inequality by pushing down wages at the bottom of the wage distribution.Immigration of skilled

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I wrote "Enough of Amateur Critics" in response to all the finger-pointing and blame-shifting that ensued the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The principles therein apply to matters other than natural disasters. There's war, for instance. In that regard, Jay Tea of WizBang! advances my theme in "Everyone makes missteaks."

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George Will does. As do I.One Sunday morning in January or February of 1977, when I lived in western New York State, I drove to the news stand to pick up my Sunday Times. I had to drive my business van because my car wouldn't start. (Odd, I thought.) I arrived at the stand around 8:00 a.m. The temperature sign on the bank across the street then read -16 degrees (Fahrneheit). The proprietor

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From Fringe Watch: A Look at the Legion of St. Louis and its Extremist Connections, a twenty-part study of the Legion of St. Louis and the neo-fascist International Third Position:Extremism of any kind represents a deviation from sound judgment and morals. In the American context, postwar extremism was traditionally a monopoly of the left. But after the 1960s the anti-establishment movement

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Eternity Road has an excellent post about societal suicide in the West. Relatedly, this op-ed at OpinionJournal suggests that the Supreme Court is about to help the U.S. slide a bit further down the slippery slope of defenselessness.

Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24915835.post-1143938856422327272006-04-01T18:45:00.000-06:002006-04-01T18:48:31.183-06:00

Edward Feser replies to a reply from David Gordon on the subject of just war. For background, read my earlier post about the Feser-Gordon exchange, and follow the links therein. Feser's latest is here.

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Thomas Woods graciously links to my critique of his anti-war posture. And the visitors are rolling in. Thank you, Prof. Woods.

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From SFGate.com:UCSF points out flaw in studies tying alcohol to heart healthResearchers at UCSF pored through more than 30 years of studies that seem to show health benefits from moderate alcohol consumption, and concluded in a report released today that nearly all contained a fundamental error that skewed the results. That error may have led to an erroneous conclusion that moderate drinkers

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U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, 4th District of Georgia!loof lirpa

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RECOMMENDED READING FOR VISITORS FROM LEWROCKWELL.COM AND KAREN DE COSTER'S BLOG:Practical Libertarianism for AmericansThe Meaning of LibertyTHE POST YOU CAME HERE TO READ:Thomas Woods, who earned a bit of blogospheric notoriety for his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (which I own and have read), later endorsed "Neoconned and Neoconned Again

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UPDATED @ 9:02 PMImmigration, legal or not, is more than an economic issue. Most economists -- even economists I respect -- just don't get it. It is stupid to let people enter the U.S. if the result of doing so is an expansion of the regulatory-welfare state, both directly -- for the benefit of immigrants -- and indirectly -- as a result of the votes those immigrants cast (eventually) for

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My rather long post about "Privacy: Variations on the Theme of Liberty" includes a reading list that I update from time to time. Here's the current version:President had legal authority to OK taps (Chicago Tribune)Our domestic intelligence crisis (Richard A. Posner)Many posts by Tom Smith of The Right Coast (start with "Thank You New York Times" on 12/16/05 and work your way to the present)

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From the archives of Sears: From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Company sold more than 100,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles, from the elaborate multistory Ivanhoe, with its elegant French doors and art glass windows, to the simpler Goldenrod, which served as a quaint, three-room and no-bath cottage for summer

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That's the appropriate title of this blog, which has moved to a new location. Proprietor Keith Burgess-Jackson explains:As if to prove that he is a thug (should anyone have doubted it), Brian Leiter has threatened PowerBlogs with a lawsuit if it doesn't change the URL of my blog devoted to exposing his abusiveness. I don't care what the URL is, and I don't want PowerBlogs to risk liability, so I

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In an article at LewRockwell.com, David Gordon replies to Edward Feser's recent series of posts at Right Reason about paleoconservatism and the war in Iraq. Feser, posting again at Right Reason ("Rothbardians [anarcho-capitalists: ED] and Iraq: A Reply to David Gordon"), observes thatlibertarians, including most Rothbardians and probably also including the Nozick of part III of Anarchy, State,

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UPDATED @ 2:50 PMSteve Antler (EconoPundit) has a neat graphic in this post, which illustrates a key point. The point? The minimum wage -- to the extent that it is actually paid by employers of illegal immigrants -- raises the unemployment rate. That, in turn, gives pandering politicians yet another opportunity to buy votes by expanding welfare benefits for illegal immigrants (and other

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At LegalAffairs Debate Club, John Robertson and Barbara Katz Rodman debate "Choosing Your Child's Sex?" The question for debate: Should it be unlawful for parents to select an infant's sex through abortion or in vitro techniques and, if so, under what circumstances should it be legal? Robertson offers the usual liberal cant ("we prize individual autonomy and reproductive choice") and tries to

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Yesterday's post about "Red-Brick Buildings" reminds me of "Memories of a Catholic Boyhood," Chapter One of Garry Wills's Bare Ruined Choirs.* There, Wills could be writing about my boyhood. I hasten to add that I don't agree with Wills's politics or his juvenile attitude toward the Church, the many traces of which I have excised from the following excerpts of his "Memories."We grew up different.

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I went to these (barely) post-Civil War schools for grades K-5:And I was a parishoner of these churches in the 1940s and early 1950s:The first two of the schools were razed more than 50 years ago; the third was converted to an apartment building about 50 years ago. The second of the two churches was razed more than 40 years ago. They just don't make them like they used to.(All photos courtesy of

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