Tag Archives: personal responsibility

Race, Wrongs, and Remedies

By Mark | August 13, 2010

I don’t talk a lot about “personal responsibility” on this site. To do so, I think, makes me sound like a Tea Bagger. The truth is, though, I don’t think the government has the power, try as it might, to eradicate poverty. I think they can, and should, put safety nets in place, but, at […]

Posted in Economics, Other | Also tagged Amy Wax, analogies, Ayn Rand, Christopher Jencks, History, Hoover Studies in Politics Economics and Society, Horatio, Isabel Sawhill, poverty, race, Race Wrongs and Remedies: Group Justice in the 21st Century, welfare, welfare reform | 32 Comments

U.S. census worker found murdered in Kentucky

By Mark | September 24, 2009

I didn’t like it a week or so ago when the press insinuated that an anti-abortion activist’s murder in Michigan might have had something to do with his beliefs, so I’m hesitant to make too much of a reach here, but, when you find a dead census worker strung up in the forest with the […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged anti-government, Bill Sparkman, crime, Daniel Boone National Forest, extremist groups, Glenn Beck, Kentucky, Michele Bauchmann, murder, murder mystery, Rachel Maddow, right-wing extremism, Rush Limbaugh, Sara Palin, tea party, threat of assassination, violence on the extreme right, watering trees with blood | 28 Comments

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