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[chris_gerrib]

1) A very interesting article: why you should stop believing in evolution. TL;DR version = one believes in religion and comprehends science.

2) Yet another Republican-led House panel finds no misconduct or attempt to misled in Benghazi affair.

A twofer from Gin and Tacos:

3) a lack of constraint. Constraint is used in the technical sense to mean people should believe things that make sense together. In other words, if balancing the budget is important, raising taxes should be okay.

4) We Americans have little faith in special knowledge, and only with the greatest difficulty is the idea being forced upon us that not every man is capable of doing every job. But Mr. Ford belongs to the traditions of self-made men, to that primitive Americanism which has held the theory that a successful manufacturer could turn his hand with equal success to every other occupation.

This quote above shows one of the (many, many) failures of libertarianism. There really is "special knowledge" and we ignore that at our peril. ETA This is more a critique of people who are self-described libertarians vs. the philosophy as a whole. See, for example, how we can't trust climate scientists because reasons.

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[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

The last paragraph of this post makes no sense whatever - unless you have a “special definition” of libertarianism, the which I've occasionally suspected.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

By the bye, if balancing the budget is important but the tax burden is already crippling the economy, to where imposing further burdens will result only in mass tax-evasion, capital flight and steadily dwindling revenues, raising taxes ISN'T a good idea.

In the days when you could still find manufactured goods that said MADE IN USA, the budget was balanced - indeed, showed surpluses! - without destructive confiscatory taxation.  Reduce spending, and you can actually ease the tax burden!  Wow, lookathat - jobs!  People taking home real paychecks!  One income sufficient again!  Gosh.