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Comment on The Moral Case for Freedom by Bal

Bal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:25:20 +0000

Happy 4th of July Weekend! Last year we were on Mackinac for the 4th! It was amazing, as usual. This year we will be styaing close to home, watching the local parade and having a little BBQ.

Comment on Bipartisan Consensus for the Politically Powerful by Darciana

Darciana — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:20:26 +0000

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Comment on You Can’t Take the Sky from Me… by Carl Manheim

Carl Manheim — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:54:28 +0000

Shelly, I think that is your name. I truly admire your love of freedom. I share that with you, and I am also a fan of Firefly. I am sorry I upset you when I commented on the Mackinac Center about your essay on Friedman. The problem is that I am much older than you, and I lived through WW-II as a child and the later cold war. We live in a society that has created a very complex economic system that just cannot be boiled down to a simple freedom vs. restriction model. You need to study more macroeconomics. I feel that some government regulation of economic activity is necessary to grant economic freedom to the rest of us. But, that is another matter.

You became a fan of the Mackinac Center, and curiously I was led back to your blog here by my trying to find out how the Mackinac Center was using Facebook to censor the comments that I have been making. Yes, it seems that they are censoring what I have been writing there. I just discovered it. When I add a comment, I can see it, but others signed into Facebook cannot see it. I don’t know how they are working this out. I guess they “defriended” me in a way I can’t understand. I am afraid that the MC has very little commitment to democracy and even less to open discussion of issues. It is quite fascinating in this age of social networking and technology. Technology can be used in ways that suppress open discussion as well as fostering it. Unfortunately, I am not a good enough computer expert to discover how this is being carried out at the moment.

It is done so surreptitiously that you would never know. So my message to you is. Watch out. Keep up your commitment to freedom and truth. Keep digging to find out the truth about things. Milton Friedman did have a lot of correct things to say about economics, but there are other ways of looking at economics. I would recommend a course in macroeconomics. I am not in this field, but I do like Abel, Bernanke, and Croushore’s textbook. It tries to balance the conservative with the liberal points of view.

Best wishes,

Comment on Young Man, You Owe Milton Friedman a Thank You. by Conscription: Necessary Or Outdated? « What's Hot in Singapo

Conscription: Necessary Or Outdated? « What's Hot in Singapo — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:42:08 +0000

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Comment on Young Man, You Owe Milton Friedman a Thank You. by Zoroukah – Conscription: Necessary Or Outdated?

Zoroukah – Conscription: Necessary Or Outdated? — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:42:07 +0000

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Comment on Rights and Responsibilities by Hans Maier

Hans Maier — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:35:54 +0000

The article illustrates the growing unbalance between the concepts of rights and duties in public life. Both are notions pertaining to the role of an individual human being, which in 1948 was considered to deserve certain universal rights because of being endowed with reason and a conscience. Unfortunately, the other side of this endowment, the duties that a human’s dignity entail were not elaborated on. It is time to start redressing the imbalance by spelling out the duties that every human individual should observe, thus creating a worldwide morality and an atmosphere of self-control. See proposal in http://www.humanduties.com.

Comment on Number Crunching by Number Crunching | Trying Liberty | Wind Power

Number Crunching | Trying Liberty | Wind Power — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:11:57 +0000

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Comment on 10 Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery by Bloom

Bloom — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:57:19 +0000

the exact some thing is on http://mises.org/daily/5076

Comment on “Poor governance creates poor policy. That’s what we have.” by James kaviti

James kaviti — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:42:34 +0000

Selfishness, corruption, & tribalism are the major cause of economic retardation

Comment on Why I Hate Politics by kaluzer

kaluzer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:10:01 +0000

While campaigning in North Carolina, other electioneers standing next to me were passing out flyers for “The Black Ballot” as individuals were entering the polls. Also, I overheard some people looking at my candidate’s flyer say: “Oooo. He looks like a handsome respectable young man. I’ll vote for him.” I cringed every time I heard this.

Apparently, politics is not founded on a philosophical or an ideological basis. Rather, decisions for voting are largely based on qualities not at all pertaining to policy ideologies.