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by | 2:05 pm, September 20, 2012

Jonah Goldberg on The Tyranny of Cliches

by | 12:14 pm, September 14, 2012

Sure, Friday night is made for sweet, sweet loving, but why not get warmed up first watching public affairs television featuring the Independence Institute on Colorado Public Television 12. First at 8:00PM, snuggle up with research director David Kopel on Colorado Inside Out. Then feast on some eye-candy at 8:30 on Devil’s Advocate as I [...]

Jonah Goldberg and "right" vs. "left."

by | 12:30 am, August 23, 2010

In his excellent book “Liberal Fascism,” Jonah Goldberg writesThe popular conception that Hitler was a man of the right is grounded in a rich complex of assumptions and misconceptions about what constitutes left and right, terms that get increasingly s…

Haggis or tripe today, sir?

by | 11:55 am, April 22, 2010

Jonah Goldberg has offered his take on where the Tea Partiers where while George W. Bush was expanding government and spending money he didn’t have. (See “Tea parties a delayed Bush backlash.“)

Concerning W’s Big Government Republican proclivity, Goldberg wrote:
Conservatives didn’t necessarily bite their tongues (remember the Harriet Miers and immigration fiascoes), but they did prioritize supporting Bush — often in the face of far nastier attacks than Obama has received — over ideological purity. Besides, where were conservatives supposed to go? Into the arms of John Kerry?

This perfectly illustrates the problem. With our two party system, we are given two bad choices: Expand government a lot, or expand it slightly less.
As long as we accept two bad choices, we’ll keep getting them. If you keep buying tripe for lunch because the only other option is haggis, guess what you’ll keep being offered? Tripe.
You can gag it down while you tell yourself, “well, it sure beats the hell out of haggis.”
We need more options. We need to be creative. The two party system ain’t in the Constitution. Neither is plurality voting. My immediate suggestion is adoption of approval voting.
I’m open to ideas. I’m begging for ideas! Bring me ideas!

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