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Posted By whburgess

Re: Means and Ends (Joshua Cohen & Glenn Loury)

While I probably don't see afflicting the comfortable as an imperative the way those ideologies based on envy and resentment do, I do value comforting the afflicted, and try to do so.

However, ...

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01-03-2012, 10:19 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Means and Ends (Joshua Cohen & Glenn Loury)

I'd frame it differently. I say she doesn't have a 'right' to impose her sensibilities on a particular work environment.

I don't mean to flaunt the purity of any dogma. I don't think...

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01-03-2012, 07:45 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Means and Ends (Joshua Cohen & Glenn Loury)

I think Badhat answered these questions well.

I thought they discussed libertarianism, but I think their arguments against it were not very good. The idea that roads wouldn't be built or...

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01-03-2012, 06:09 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Newsflash: Democrats are impure too.

As a Republican myself, I consider him as much a Republican as any others in the field. Republicans and Libertarians overlap quite a bit on domestic issues, and while he is at odds with a big...

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01-03-2012, 05:54 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Means and Ends (Joshua Cohen & Glenn Loury)

I think you miscalculate. I'm not a pollster either, but I think Paul's supporters make up these groups listed in order of greater percentages:

1. People for whom ending the drug war is a top...

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01-03-2012, 05:35 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Newsflash: Democrats are impure too.

Here is how I read Wonderment's conversation with his fellow liberals in this forum:

Wonderment: "I could never vote for RP for president but he is an outspoken anti-war, anti-American-Empire...

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01-03-2012, 04:26 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Means and Ends (Joshua Cohen & Glenn Loury)

First time I've ever pulled kleenexes while watching BhTv. I admire the sacrifice these two made in discussing their respective situations publicly like this. It was the profoundest contribution...

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01-03-2012, 03:15 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Kudos to Bob for setting the record straight on his hero, Ron Paul

Keep in mind that the power that a President has, relative to Congress and domestic issues, in the FP space. A president can pretty much do what he wants on FP. In domestic policy he needs...

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01-01-2012, 06:01 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

Not everything. It just tells us I'm a dude.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You're probably younger then me and as for taste--you're French! Two out of three ain't bad!

I had expected...

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01-01-2012, 05:27 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

It isn't important. It's not worth your effort to understand. You win!

Because, today I saw this evidence (http://youtu.be/VfSYeXPQaQI) of French superiority and want to be friends with all...

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01-01-2012, 04:55 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

:)

Those two questions look really cute together!

Makes me wish I could give you a great big ole country hug!

I'll wish you a sincere Happy New Year instead, my sophisticated French...

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01-01-2012, 03:54 PM

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Posted By whburgess

My predictions for 2012

Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination easily.

The economy will start improving with unemployment rates getting better as the election approaches.

Hillary will be the VP on the dem ticket and...

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01-01-2012, 02:49 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

Only unintentional irony could be this rich.

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12-31-2011, 10:55 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: The Bromance (John McWhorter & Glenn Loury)

I'm sorry Itzik; I don't understand your question.

Thanks for the link to Wax's book and McWhorters review. I was not aware of this; it's very interesting!

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12-31-2011, 06:44 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Kudos to Bob for setting the record straight on his hero, Ron Paul

Bob provide a great assessment (http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/40593?in=66:19&out=68:11) of Ron Paul's foreign policy.
Let this serve as a 'teachable moment' for those liberals on this board...

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12-31-2011, 06:19 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

Why do they want a nuclear weapon? Why are they taking such risks to acquire one?

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12-31-2011, 06:13 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: The Bromance (John McWhorter & Glenn Loury)

I thought I had watched this attentively, but I saw little or nothing, in this discussion, of what you're describing here. Maybe you could ding-a-link it.

Maybe you're talking about the...

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12-31-2011, 12:57 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Goldbugs worse than closeted racists

I agree with Glenn Loury, that the right to discriminate is a serious argument for liberty that should be addressed with more argument rather then just saying someone is bigot who believes that a...

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12-31-2011, 01:59 AM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: The Bromance (John McWhorter & Glenn Loury)

You seem to take offense at the idea that we are a constitutional republic rather then simple democracy. But everyone, (except you, I suppose) agrees with this. Even every left wing, big...

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12-30-2011, 10:57 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

No one, with capability, has ever threatened Israel with nuclear annihilation before. I don't think history has anything to say on such an unprecedented situation. They can't just decide they...

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12-30-2011, 10:19 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: The Bromance (John McWhorter & Glenn Loury)

Ha! Sounds like TS and Ron Paul may have something in common after all!

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12-30-2011, 10:15 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

The questions weren't about why you support our position regarding Iran, but why we actually have this position. I didn't understand them as questions as to why we should maintain the positions we...

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12-30-2011, 09:26 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

Stop comparing me to Rush. I'm not worthy.

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12-30-2011, 09:21 PM

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Posted By whburgess

Re: Great DV John & Glenn!

Are you confusing short and concise with 'simple'?

Thank you. You may be right. But I don't understand your apology -- or your quotes around "answers".

You're joking. Right? Ha....

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12-30-2011, 08:23 PM

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