by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 2/11/2011 Tom, I read your latest essay and haven’t had a chance to digest and write a reply. But I will say that I see a gigantic distinction between one’s own children (and the power and moral right over one’s own children) and other...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 02/04/2011 This following essay is in response to an article by Lew Rockwell, a Libertarian writer, on the uprising of the people of Egypt against his 30 year dictatorship. Commentary 1: The seed article by Lew Rockwell considers the...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND7/08/2008 “As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:00 AM The writer of the piece below confronts the issue of standing up to defend our inalienable rights, but he does not explore the origin or limits of those rights. The choice of the word, “inalienable” implies...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
Scouting Award Speech by Clayton M. Christensen June 11, 2009 I am honored that, in the words of the hosts of the NPR program “Car Talk,” so many of you would waste a perfectly good hour listening to people say these things about me. I am grateful beyond words for...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 9/6/2009 Summary: This essay examines power from the perspective that men pursue power to satisfy a desire for power itself. Men love the feeling of power, and the pursuit of this feeling is a drug in the sense that it alters...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 10/23/2009 Today on the Fox Business News, High Noon segment, the commentators considered the issue of legalizing medical marijuana. They argued that legalization would lower the crime rate by reducing incentives for gang and organized crime,...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
(Quotes from SOBRAN’S, December 2002, pages 3–6) by Tom Sobran: Entire essay found at: www.sobran.com/reluctant.html Commentary by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 10/1/2010 Thomas This argument assumes that the state will inevitably, unavoidably, necessarily, logically,...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics, Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 10/31/2010 Introduction and Summary: The implied social contract is that having been born in a nation, that we have an obligation to follow the laws of the land. John (in an email thread below) makes the following statement, “No human or...
by Thomas Lee Abshier | Mar 24, 2019 | Libertarian Politics
By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 11/11/2010 John (quote from email correspondence below): “I would say that the only area where you and I *might* disagree is in the use of force to achieve natural law. Or maybe we don’t disagree? Natural law is about individuals having...
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