[SL: After a lengthy discussion with Legal Eagle and DeusExMacintosh, we have decided to revise our earlier 'girls only' policy and invite Lorenzo to be one of our writers. He has written half-a-dozen superb pieces for the blog over the last year, and if I see one more piece on his own site that makes me [...]
Rick Santorum is facing some awkward questions after footage emerged of a radical evangelical preacher opening a campaign rally with calls for all non-Christians to “get out” of America. In the footage, filmed at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Louisiana yesterday, Pastor Dennis Terry told a crowd that anyone who doesn’t worship God should [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, History, Politics, Religion, Society
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Tagged barack obama, christian evangelism, god damn america speech, greenwell springs baptist church, louisiana, one nation under god, pastor dennis terry, pledge of allegiance, republican primaries, reverend jeremiah wright, rick santorum, united states of america, US politics, US presidential election 2012, US republican party, US republicans, USA
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January 27, 2012 – 10:01 am
I have to say that I am pretty unimpressed with the actions of the activists who forced Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to flee the Lobby Restaurant yesterday, where she was attending an Australia Day function to celebrate emergency services. For non-Australian readers, yesterday was Australia Day, a public holiday which falls on the anniversary [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Free Speech, History, Politics, Racism, Society, The Left
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Tagged Aboriginal Tent Embassy, aborigines, activism, australia, Australia Day, Australian politics, indigenous issues, Julia Gillard, Michael Anderson, persuasion, protest, protesters, riots, social justice, tent embassy, Tony Abbott, violence
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November 3, 2011 – 11:25 am
Retrospective legislation and the rule of law F A Hayek neatly summarises the rule of law as follows: Stripped of all technicalities [the rule of law] means the government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand — rules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Immigration, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Taxation, The Left, Welfare
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Tagged australia, Australian Federal government, Australian politics, FA Hayek, Heydon J, High Court of Australia, House of Representatives, Immigration, joseph raz, legal rights, Migration Act, payara, poniatowska, retrospective legislation, rule of law, Senate, Social Security Administration Act
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August 14, 2011 – 12:03 am
Candidates for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential race are facing their first key test of grassroots party opinion with a straw poll in Iowa. The poll is not an official primary but winning is considered a major boost. The front-runner in national opinion polls, ex-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, is not actively taking part. [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Feminism, Funnies, Media, Politics
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Tagged america, barack obama, corn dog, fried food, GOP, iowa state fair, john boehner, michele bachmann, mitt romney, newt gingrich, rick perry, sarah palin, the white house, tim pawlenty, US democrats, US politics, US presidential campaign 2012, US republicans, USA, washington
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August 11, 2011 – 8:01 pm
[SL: there was a time, not so long ago, when conservatives and libertarians could afford to be smug about the intellectual miasma in which left-liberals and progressives had lost themselves. It is unfortunate--and does us little credit--that when a decent number of left-liberals reacted in horror to the colonisation of their political tradition by postmodernism [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Economics, Guest Post, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Skeptics, Terrorism, The Left
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Tagged Adam Smith, American Revolution, common law, conservatism, Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Inflation, Modernism, monetary policy, Norman Geras, postmodernism, Samuel Johnson, Scopes Trial, slavery, Tories, torture, US Civil War, Western Civilisation, Whigs, William Jennings Bryan
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