Category Archives: Politics

Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 10/02/2011

Posted on October 2, 2011 by shaunmiller

Books Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online (in high resolution). Guide to fantasy and/or sci-fi books. Economics When it comes to economics, “we’re all Mormons now.” Studies show that when women take on their husbands’ last name, she gets … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Economics, Emotions, Environment, Health, Middle East, News, Paper Topic, Politics, Relationships, Science, Sexuality | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 09/18/2011

Posted on September 18, 2011 by shaunmiller

Emotions New camera looks at faces and can detect when we’re lying just by our emotional appearance. Environment More evidence for evolution: Dinosaur feathers have been found stuck in amber.  It’s Jurassic Park style. Ethics Chart on abortion per state … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion, Education, Emotions, Environment, Ethics, Evolution, Gender, Health, Love, Middle East, Mormons, News, Politics, Sexuality, Vegetarianism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 08/28/2011

Posted on August 28, 2011 by shaunmiller

Arts Wow!  The photo below was made by this camera:  Economics A revealing study shows that economic declination is inversely proportional to the length of women’s skirts.  In other words, when wealth declines, the girls skirts get shorter. Philosophy Plato may … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Love, News, Plato, Politics, Sexuality, Utilitarianism | Leave a comment

Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 07/16/2011

Posted on July 16, 2011 by shaunmiller

Sex The Onion never ceases to amaze me: How to Get a Guy to Notice You While You’re Having Sex. A debate about pornography in England.  I thought the opposition did a horrible job, which is why the house was … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Evolution, Free Will, Gender, Health, Humor, Marriage, Monogamy, Politics, Pornography, Sexuality | Leave a comment

Bleeding Heart Libertarian Blog is Reading Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia

Posted on July 1, 2011 by shaunmiller

There’s a reading on the Bleeding Heart Libertarian blog.  I’ll index below and update it as the blog goes forward. Correcting One Big Misreading of Nozick: On The Structure of Anarchy, State, and Utopia Strange Absences in Anarchy, State, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Economics, Libertarianism | Leave a comment

Some Transparency in Congress Please

Posted on June 27, 2011 by shaunmiller

A while ago, I wrote about J.S. Mill’s view of representative government and how Congress should be a true representation of the population.  Now there’s a graph representing this: Click on the pic above.

Posted in Government, Politics | Leave a comment

Bleeding Heart Libertarian Posts

Posted on March 22, 2011 by shaunmiller

I’ve been reading some posts from Bleeding Heart Libertarian that I mentioned a while ago.  Some of it’s pretty good.  I’ll mark off the ones that I found excellent: Dealing with Immigration, they point out the immigration is actually good … Continue reading →

Posted in Libertarianism | Leave a comment

New Libertarian Blog

Posted on March 4, 2011 by shaunmiller

There’s a new libertarian blog for academics that are interested in libertarianism and social and distributive justice.  Check it out here.  (H/T to Greg)

Posted in Libertarianism | Tagged | 1 Comment

A Libertarian Argument Against the Judges Finding Obamacare Unconstitutional

Posted on February 20, 2011 by shaunmiller

Steven Landsburg has made an argument showing that even though libertarians are against Obamacare, one should still have reservations for the judges to find it unconstitutional.  Why is that?  Because even though mandatory healthcare could be considered constitutional by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Government, Health, Libertarianism | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Argument about Violent Rhetoric Leading to Violent Action

Posted on January 12, 2011 by shaunmiller

All forms of violent rhetoric leads to or causes violent actions. All violent actions are wrong and they should be prevented. Violent political rhetoric (e.g. putting crosshairs on a map) lead to the assassination attempt in Arizona. Violent music (e.g. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Culture, Government, Logic, Politics | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments