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Tuesday

From the Notebooks The Nock on Babbitt? It's interesting that Sinclair Lewis labeled the repressed character in Babbitt after Irving Babbitt, the Harvard professor from Ohio who emphasized that, for America to survive, men must restrain their appetites. Lewis' use of the eponym was meant as an

Tuesday

Whining Liberal = Catholic I had to drive to Battle Creek yesterday afternoon, so I had a chance to listen to Rush Limbaugh for the first time since I heard him declare Ron Paul a "liberal." I've never listened to Rush much, but I'd always

Monday

Hunting for a Conservative I hadn't been to Jack Hunter's site for awhile. No reason, other than nothing had prompted me to go there. Then yesterday, while randomly flipping through my Facebook wall, I saw a post to this great piece by Hunter: Santorum isn'

Thursday

Nockian Corner I mentioned last week that I was in the process of comparing the political theories of Orestes Brownson and Albert Jay Nock. Someone could, with disturbing insight, ask, "Why bother?" My answer is simple: I'm smitten with Nock, but I'm more smitten

Monday

Atheists and Libertarians A TDE reader sends this along: Ayn Rand's Atheists are Crashing the Tea Party [http://www.frumforum.com/ayn-rands-atheists-are-crashing-the-tea-party#more-106445] . It's a good piece, with a good deal of insight. One line, though, especially struck

Thursday

I Cain't Believe It Herman Cain gets smeared by sexual harassment allegations. It kinda sucks, since I was actually thinking about voting for him. How couldn't I, once I saw these pictures: Alas, it sounds like those sexual harassment allegations have traction. It reminds me of

Monday

Notes About the Conspiracy Is the United States a sham? How corrupt is DC? Does the stock market even exist as a free market bastion anymore? Whether I like it or not (I don't), those are thoughts that wake me up in the middle of the night (literally,

Thursday

Jones and Food Rolling Stone magazine lights up Alex Jones [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/talk-radios-alex-jones-the-most-paranoid-man-in-america-20110302?print=true] . Kinda. It starts off swinging hard. Toward the beginning of the piece: "The Gates Foundation? 'Obviously a eugenics operation.

Wednesday

The Ruling Class You've seen cyber-lists about the horrible state of the U.S. economy. This site [http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/rich-vs-poor-14-funny-statistics-and-14-not-so-funny-statistics-about-this-economic-recovery] has taken the exercise one step further: it has juxtaposed

Monday

Considering Anarchy The March issue of Commentary has an interesting piece, "The Return of Anarchism." (Subscriber link [https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-return-of-anarchism/].) Commentary, of course, is a neo-con rag, so I didn't expect a fair treatment of limited government and, unfortunately,