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Joel Mathis commented on Phillip Jerome Chesser's blog post 'Tea Party Fights an Old Battle'

No, Rick, I know you're not a neocon. I'm not certain what the right approach to a post-Cold War world is. I think it involves taking terrorism seriously, but not letting terrorists bait us into unsustainably asymetrical time/money/blood…

Sep 22, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Phillip Jerome Chesser's blog post 'Tea Party Fights an Old Battle'

I'm reading Peter Beinart's "The Icarus Syndrome" right now, and just read Andrew Bacevich's "Washington Rules." I'm trying to figure out how best to use American power abroad, in a way that accepts that there…

Sep 22, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Phillip Jerome Chesser's blog post 'Tea Party Fights an Old Battle'

"Because the Democratic/liberal establishment (which are indistinguishable)" You obviously haven't heard about the "professional left," Rick.

Sep 22, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Phillip Jerome Chesser's blog post 'Tea Party Fights an Old Battle'

"I'm often amazed that conservatives who condemn social engineering domestically are quite willing to engage in international military social engineering in the name of establishing freedom, democracy, and American virtue around the…

Sep 21, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Jim Lakely's blog post 'Why Did the FBI Visit The Koran-Burning Pastor?'

I was with you all the way to "dhimmitude" Jim. Unless, of course, you want to suggest that Gen. Petraeus is a dhimmi. I don't really think surrendering to the superior status of Muslims is what's at play here ... and I think,…

Sep 11, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Ben Boychuk's video

This assumes that all tax cuts -- and all deficits -- are equal. But of course they're not. The top marginal tax rate -- on incomes over $400,000 -- was 91 percent. Let's repeat that again for effect: 91 PERCENT!!!!!! Today, it's 35…

Kennedy versus Obama on Taxes

Sep 8, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Alan Caruba's blog post 'Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams'

Hitler also did business with IBM, Alan. I pray to God you've never owned a Selectric, because there's only one possible inference to draw from that.

Sep 7, 2010

Ronald A. Lau commented on Joel Mathis's blog post '"Officers' safety comes first, and not infringing on people's rights comes second."'

That will be $300.

Sep 3, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Paul Chesser's blog post 'The Warmabomber Was An Aberration'

Paul: Are you suggesting that climbing a rig is legally/morally equivalent to taking hostages in hope that humanity will become extinct? Or is this just another smear job to paint everybody who might consider themselves an environmentalist as a…

Sep 2, 2010

Marcotte Anderson commented on Joel Mathis's blog post '"Officers' safety comes first, and not infringing on people's rights comes second."'

Also, you're probably not getting many comments because many conservatives and 2nd Amendment aficionados tend to dislike it when a dyed-in-the-wool liberal ends up on the same side of a gun rights story as them.

Sep 2, 2010

Marcotte Anderson commented on Joel Mathis's blog post '"Officers' safety comes first, and not infringing on people's rights comes second."'

There are too many facts for even me to check. I'll just assume their all wrong. ;-P Oh, I guess I can repost what I wrote at Infinite Monkeys. Cops shouldn't have to "prove" your guilty. That's for the courts. As…

Sep 2, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Paul Chesser's blog post 'Sources of the Warmabomber's Bright Ideas'

I'm looking at a few of your links. For the most part, they don't seem to say what you suggest they say. The MacArthur Foundation "population" link seems to focus, for example, on reducing maternal death. Keeping pregnant…

Sep 2, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Joel Mathis's blog post '"Officers' safety comes first, and not infringing on people's rights comes second."'

What? Nobody's got anything to say? Comments on this blog ARE open! Even to stalkers, like Marcotte!

Sep 1, 2010

"Officers' safety comes first, and not infringing on people's rights comes second."

I'm pretty much on record that I find gun ownership the most ambiguous of all the civil rights. It's not that I dispute the meaning of the Second Amendment -- that debate, I think, is for all intents and purposes over -- but, let's be frank: Guns are instruments of violence. Period. I'm not at all certain that the Second Amendment is always and…See More

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Joel Mathis commented on Marcotte Anderson's blog post 'Correcting Misconceptions about Keynes and History'

I can't help but feel there's a remarkable number of posters at around here who take offense at the idea that they should defend their assertions or buttress them with evidence. Makes you wonder about the quality of opinion they offer.

Aug 28, 2010

Joel Mathis commented on Bruce Edward Walker's blog post 'Philadelphia Feedom: City of Brotherly Love Imposes Licensing Fees for Bloggers'

I'm a blogger in Philadelphia, and, well: They'll get my $300 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Aug 23, 2010

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Posted on September 1, 2010 at 5:39am — 4 Comments

A brief thought about Al Gore's alleged sex assault

Freedom Pub host Jim Lakely invited me to crosspost this comment to Freedom Pub. I thank him for the invite.

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Posted on June 30, 2010 at 6:00pm — 3 Comments

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Disclaimer: As Freedom Pub host Jim Lakely will tell you, my politics are generally much to the left of most of the folks here. But I offer this blog post in the hopes that we'll find some common ground on this one issue.…

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